Custom Wedding Dress Baby Quilt

This custom wedding dress baby quilt included white satin and lace. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Custom Wedding Dress Baby Quilt

Over the years we have made a number of these custom wedding dress quilts, some as baby quilts and others as lap quilts. There is something quite appealing about repurposing such a special dress. What other uses can one really have for a wedding dress?

There are some interesting challenges with making custom wedding dress quilts. In the case of a custom wedding dress baby quilt, we had to stabilize lace to ensure that it will have a long life as part of this custom wedding dress baby quilt.

The customer wanted the standard 36 inches by 48 inch crib based on our custom wedding dress lap quilt throw design so we made the square quilt blocks smaller to fit the final size.

We were also asked to incorporate lace, which meant the machine quilting had to work around the lace but still tack it.

Delicate lace is stabilized for a long life. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Our original custom wedding dress quilt design included a machine quilting design along the borders that added a third dimension to these custom handmade quilts. The machine quilting was a little smaller to reflect the smaller overall custom handmade quilt design.

Machine quilting around the edge adds another dimension. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

The customer wanted something soft for the backing and provided a very slippery soft quilt backing fabric. Our excellent machine quilter was able to work with the backing and get it incorporated. The end result was a heavy weight baby quilt that repurposes a special piece of clothing to mark the next life chapter, the birth of a child.

This is not a custom baby quilt that can get daily use. We recommend dry cleaning and using this for special occasions like a baptism, continuing the tradition of marking life’s special moments.

Charlotte