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I received a phone call a while back from a young lady who had spent three years with the Peace Corps in Tanzania.\u00a0 She had had to leave suddenly, and the only souvenirs of her time consisted of several t-shirts and some pieces of Tanzanian fabric.\u00a0 Could I use these to make her a memory quilt?<\/p>\n

It was quite a design challenge, let me tell you!\u00a0 What I finally came up with was to frame each t-shirt panel with the Tanzanian fabrics, and added black borders to set everything off.<\/p>\n

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The bottom center panel is an embroidered purse that she’d carried with her everywhere and it contained a LOT of memories.\u00a0 But the thing was terribly ratty and falling apart.\u00a0 What I did was to fuse it to interfacing, and then carefully hand baste fine tulle over the whole thing.\u00a0 Now there will be no more abrading to further deteriorate it.<\/p>\n

She had many special requests that I was happy to accommodate: embroidering\u00a0 names & dates, appliqueing bits and pieces from the sleeves and backs.<\/p>\n

The final result was something she was utterly thrilled with.\u00a0 (Wished I’d taken a clearer picture!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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