A Wedding Dress Quilt

One of my high school friend's Mom contacted me a few months ago and wanted to know if I could make a quilt out of her wedding dress for her granddaughter. She said it had been stained, but thought I could do something out of the good pieces.She wanted a dress shirt of her husband's used also, so her granddaughter would have something of hers and her Grandpa. I am usually up for a challenge, so I thought "why not?!" When I originally looked at it, I thought it was going to be pretty simple, and as usual, I was mistaken.

Love all the lace and bead work! 

The pile of fabric I had after tearing it apart

 I was a nervous wreck taking the seam ripper to it and starting to tear it apart (like think and stare and pace around it kind of freak out). After looking at what I had when it was apart, I called her to see if we could do a wall hanging instead of a quilt. I just felt with the lace and beading it wouldn't make that cozy of a quilt. Of course she was good with that, so off I went. I kept the top of the dress all in one piece because there were so many beads! Then I hand stitched the top onto a piece of the dress shirt. A lot of the pieces added to the wall hanging had to be hand stitched on, but I really do enjoy handwork sometimes. It's very relaxing to me. 

Isn't it pretty?!

This was the tag out of the dress

This piece was on the back of the dress

I used a simple stippling quilt pattern because I didn't want the quilting to take away from this gorgeous dress! I think her granddaughter will treasure this knowing it is something special from her Grandma and Grandpa.