Project description
I am looking for a quilter to make a double quilt, 150 by 210 centimetres, for our bedroom. Most of the blocks will come from cotton fabrics I buy new, but a handful of patches will be cut from family shirts my father and my grandfather wore, and honestly that is the whole point of the piece. The palette should stay calm — dusty blue, warm grey, muted olive — with one accent colour, a soft terracotta, used sparingly so it reads as a spark and not as a second theme.
A few technical points I want agreed before anything is cut. Every fabric has to be washed and pre-shrunk first: if that step is skipped, the first wash will pull the seams tight and the colours will bleed, and there is no way to undo that afterwards. The old shirts need checking for strength — some of them are certainly worn thin — and those pieces should either be backed with fusible interfacing or left out altogether. Please tell me which ones you are dropping before cutting, not after a block is already assembled. A quilt that holds together matters more to me than any particular shirt.
Later I may order a small quilt for my nephew, who is five months old. That one has different rules: no long fringe, no buttons, no little stitched-on shapes, nothing a baby can pull loose and put in his mouth. For now, though, I only need the large one.
What I expect from the job:
— a layout sketch of the blocks for approval before cutting, with the colour plan and the accent placement;
— square block corners and seams that meet at the intersections — this is what I will check on delivery;
— medium-loft batting: warm, but not heavy to sleep under;
— machine quilting in a simple geometric pattern, straight lines or diamonds, nothing dense;
— a plain single-colour backing that suits the front;
— binding all the way round, with neat closed corners;
— a fabric label with the date, stitched into a back corner;
— delivery within two weeks and a short care note: wash temperature, spin, drying.
A few technical points I want agreed before anything is cut. Every fabric has to be washed and pre-shrunk first: if that step is skipped, the first wash will pull the seams tight and the colours will bleed, and there is no way to undo that afterwards. The old shirts need checking for strength — some of them are certainly worn thin — and those pieces should either be backed with fusible interfacing or left out altogether. Please tell me which ones you are dropping before cutting, not after a block is already assembled. A quilt that holds together matters more to me than any particular shirt.
Later I may order a small quilt for my nephew, who is five months old. That one has different rules: no long fringe, no buttons, no little stitched-on shapes, nothing a baby can pull loose and put in his mouth. For now, though, I only need the large one.
What I expect from the job:
— a layout sketch of the blocks for approval before cutting, with the colour plan and the accent placement;
— square block corners and seams that meet at the intersections — this is what I will check on delivery;
— medium-loft batting: warm, but not heavy to sleep under;
— machine quilting in a simple geometric pattern, straight lines or diamonds, nothing dense;
— a plain single-colour backing that suits the front;
— binding all the way round, with neat closed corners;
— a fabric label with the date, stitched into a back corner;
— delivery within two weeks and a short care note: wash temperature, spin, drying.
Other / Miscellaneous Cash, Bank transfer
