Monday, August 15, 2011

Wedding Dress to Twin Blessing Blankets!

That's right. I have a friend who cut up her wedding dress so I could make her newborn twin girls blessing blankets. How sweet is that? She did the cutting up of the dress, not me. And she used the bleach pen on the stains, not me. Phew- I didn't mess it up, thank goodness.


We used the satin under skirt from the dress for the binding (cut into long strips and sewed together). We used the lace overlay for one side of the blanket. We used the pretty bottom lace for added interest on top of the lace side. We used white minky (not on the wedding dress) for the other side. You could see through the lace side but the minky fabric is double sided and fairly thick so it added bulk to the blanket. Then I found some white rosettes and used those to make the ties look nicer than white yarn. I tied all of the layers together in 9 places.

Then I doubled it all for the other blanket for baby #2!

They are meaningful, resourceful, and beautiful!

4 comments:

  1. That is so special! What a beautiful way to preserve that memory!

    Thanks for the link up at Show & Share!

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  2. Those are beautiful! What a precious way to enjoy a wedding dress. Now she'll have twice the memories of that dress.

    Kimberly @ The Brown Eyes Have It

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  3. Love this keepsake. What a treasure. I am featuring this tomorrow at Strictly Homemade Tuesday. Come by and pick up a feature button!

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  4. Love it! What a great way to preserve the memories of a wedding dress. I have two boys and don't think they'll care much about me passing on my blanket. But they love silky blankets.

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