Two old tops, one new quilt for our bed!
Here’s the tag from the top I purchased:
And equally inexpensive, a scrappy quilt top makes for the reverse of our “new” quilt:
Which side do you like better?
Why not two separate quilts?
First, more bang for the buck: Hired the amazing longarmer Carol Heisler-Lawson of Lorac Designs — https://carolheisler-lawson.com/ — to bring her hand-guided artistry to a single project.
Second reason for making this quilt reversible? Versatility, natch, but in our new home, an apartment with limited storage space, I will have to fold and put away only one bulky bedcover when I switch to our lightweight summer quilt.
Of course, there was more work to go into this project. Before the quilting, I covered small and large mildew stains on the scrappy top with vintage and repro fabric blocks and patchwork units.
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Honestly, the way you handled those vintage quilt tops to save space is lowkey genius—it’s such a clever solution for small-apartment storage. I’ve been trying to find ways to keep my own patterns organized, and honestly, using Transform pet photos into coloring pages to convert some of my sketches into actual templates for testing has saved me so much time.