Perryman Heirloom Photo Quilt

The Perrymen quilt was created as a Christmas gift for Amber's mother in-law. The colors were chosen by Amber to match the recepient's living room colors - brown and raspberry. The quilt contains 30 photos from the family. It features meandering stitching. The photo framing doesn't have stitching in order to accomodate a smaller budget. A similar quilt would run $600.

Uncle Harry's Patriotic Photo Quilt

To honor my husband's uncle, we decided to make a photo quilt. His daughter snuck the pictures out for us to scan and print while her parents were out of town. I used 20+ photos and a variety of patriotic fabrics. We presented it to him at a family party in August. He had a great emotional, surprised reaction and was wonderful!

If I created another quilt like this, I would probably avoid such busy fabric colors and loud prints in order to enhance and show off the pictures themselves more.

Heirloom Quilts/Memory Quilts

HQMQs could be any quilt you make. Any picture quilt, t-shirt quilt, or really any quilt could qualify as an heirloom quilt. You can get as creative as you want or keep it simple. With Nita’s Memories, I used antique and bridal laces, trims and appliqués to accent the pictures. Then in a most unusual form, I used the soft-edge method for the design. I love the way the pictures turned out and the look on her face as she examined every square was very heart-warming. There was a hard lesson learned from creating this in a soft-edge quilt; that is because the soft edge quilt requires several washings to soften the edges, I had several repairs to make to the antique and bridal lace. They are not made for normal washing. I don’t think in this instance I would have done it any differently because I love the way it turned out.


We can take shirts from a relative, add photos if you like, even include an old buckle from a belt or perhaps attach fishing lures into the quilt (these are works or art only not for practical use). Your grandmother’s wedding gown would make the perfect foundation for the family’s photos. Or even think about that perfect vacation – wouldn’t it be great to display it in fabric form on your wall. It would bring a smile to your face every time you passed by it. One client has a collection of old jeans and is an avid fisher. He is gathering pictures of all his fishing trips which we are going to incorporate into a jean picture quilt. What a great way of recycling and reusing jeans.

Pricing: Varies according to size and how much you want to do – if it includes pictures, if we’re using something you have requiring special cutting. I would say a starting point for wallhangings would be $200 - $300 and the pricing would go up there.

The Mann Family Heirloom Quilt

This quilt was especially designed for a unique Christmas gift to the matriarch of this family. It contains images from the childhood and adult life of each of their seven children, as well as photos of the deceased father of the family. It was such a beautiful moment to see her receive this gift and relive those "lost" moments.

Details:
This particular quilt was created in an ecru cotton fabric with accents of bridal lace and trim.
Size: Queen topper.
Style: "Rag" quilt