Wedding Part 2

Think I will start this segment with the work my wife did over the past few months and hundreds of hours on her machine and other related sewing needs:

32 Quilts:  The quilts were to cover the straw bales that were used as ‘chairs’ at both the ceremony and then moved over to the tables.  49 6 ½” X 6 1/2” squares had to be cut out for each quilt.  Most of the squares were jeans – from the legs only, she worked hard at keeping the colors separated and intermingled Ice Dyed (she had to add dye to ice, which melts onto the fabric and gives a tye dye look to the material – something she learned at MEOW) pieces of fabric.  Each square had to be attached to the next.  Seven in a row attached to the next row of seven until she had seven squares down, seven squares across.  Each a square embroidered with My son in-”love” to be, my daughter, and the date placed in the lower right had corner.  Each quilt had an Ice Dyed back attached to it.  Cutting, dying, sewing – with some help from Ian – and one of my daughter in-loves  came and helped by cutting out a dress.

4 120” and 4 108” in diameter Round Table Cloths – 4 Ice Dyed with the other 4 dyed Navy Blue, the smaller to put over the larger ones.

8 60” X 120” Table Cloths – Ice Dyed.  Cutting, dying, sewing.

The ice dyed table clothes look just like the back of the quilts.  None are exactly the same since it all depends on how the ice melted into the dye, into the material.

5 vests, 5 ties.  Yep, cutting, sewing.  My wife’s sisters put the buttons on the vests, so we could have photos taken.

There was also a dress for my youngest granddaughter.

Ring bearer’s pillow, cutting, sewing, sister finished.

In addition:  She made 10 boutonnieres, 9 corsages, Bride’s Bouquet, Bride’s Maid’s Bouquet, some of the 16 bows for the aisles, Dahlias, roses and carnations for the milk cans and buckets.  My next youngest daughter was a huge help in wrapping fillers for the bouquets (among other things) – when My wife mentioned she was doing a better job than her, she said, ‘it is just like wrapping wire at work.’ and the ‘little’ things here and there.

My daughter ordered her dress on line and a friend allowed her to use her professional steamer to ‘press’ (or whatever you call it) the dress.  My wife made a few adjustments to make it a more custom fit.  A friend let my daughter change into her dress at her home (she lives just a couple miles down the road.) She was also our chauffer from her home to the area where m

y daughter and I would walk around some small trees and then down the ‘center’ aisle of the straw bales.