If you have been enamored with the beauty of vintage textiles—from 1930’s embroidered household goods to intricately printed hankies, delicate or chunky lace, orphan quilt blocks, doilies of all shapes and sizes, etc., but you don’t know how to use them, this class will give you many practical tips, ideas, and confidence. Pull these treasures out of the drawer or the box in the attic and fall in love with their possibilities in your quilt making. After learning to source, clean, and prepare them for use, Allie shows you how to put it all together in a 20” X 20” pillow top project from start to finish.
Class Sessions
Introduction and Supplies
19:45
Allie shows examples of many vintage textiles that are easy to source and suitable to work with: hankies, table runners, doilies, orphan quilt blocks and more. She then offers many examples of how these lovely items are integrated into finished projects like bed runners, pillow tops, wall hangings, and functional quilts. Throughout, she has used standard quilting and sewing techniques in these samples.
Cleaning Vintage Quilts
15:30
Almost always, textiles need to be cleaned before use. On set, Allie demonstrates some stained and smelly “before” and the revived and refreshed “after” of laces and linens. She gives easy, safe formulas for soaking out that “yuck factor” that really work.
Adding Color to your Textiles
21:00
Sometimes a bit of lace or fabric needs to be a different color for the project at hand. Painting, dyeing, and fabric “aging” are simple to do, especially small scale. Allie shows you many ways to get that color!
Making a Pillow Top
39:00
From start to finish, a 20” X 20” pillow top is designed, its vintage elements laid out, and then stitched down. While everyone’s vintage textiles differ, the concepts presented here show how to pull them together into a wonderful whole.
Your Instructor
Allie Aller
Allie Aller has been quilting non-stop for five decades. Her college design education has served her well as she’s explored landscape, traditional, stained glass, Memory, and crazy quilting. Her newest passion is combining vintage textiles in her quilts, along with “rescuing” (not to be confused with “restoring”) old quilts and bringing them new life with vintage enhancements. She draws from a lifetime of techniques and experience to continue to find new ways to make meaningful, functional, and beautiful textile works, combining past and present.
Allie has published three books with C & T Publishing: Allie Aller’s Crazy Quilting, Quilting, A Little Bit Crazy—A Marriage of Crazy and Traditional Quilting, and Allie Aller’s Stained Glass Quilting. She has taught and lectured around the country, won awards in national shows, and mounted special exhibits of her work. She is currently focusing on studio quilt work, sharing her process, discoveries, and finishes on Facebook as Allison Aller, and Instagram @alliealler. A backlog of almost 20 years of blogging can be found at alliesinstitches@blogspot.com
She lives in the country at the mouth of the beautiful Columbia Gorge in SW Washington State.
Bonus Material
A Vintage trip around the World
Hankie and Doilies and Plaids, Oh My!
Textile Elements and Techniques Used
Bonus Materials available for download after purchase.
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