Well I have a good start on the quilt I was so jazzed to make for my Granddaughters 5th birthday. I have been trying to collect vintage sheets since last November. I couldn't find any locally, so decided to look for them when I travelled to Texas over Christmas vacation. And didn't have too much luck. But when I mentioned my project to my sister-n-laws in Texas, they just walked into the next room at their homes and came back with a set that belong to Bobbie's Mom and Lynn had a set that belonged to my husband's mother. And my friend Barbara brought me a sheet that she found at a thrift store in Fresno. I also bought a new set of pink with little girls dancing on it with flowers that I decided to use for ruffles and the back of the quilt. And now I wish I had keep some of my mom's old sheets. Who would have know at the time I would ever have a need for them.
I got started on this Vintage Sheet Quilt quest after visiting Jodie Bissig's blog www.sew-handmade.blogspot.com. Jodie uses vintage sheets to make quilts and I followed one of her references to the blog to make this quilt. I ordered the pattern for $7.00 and began the search for sheets.
So far this I've made a mountain of ruffles and sewed them to about 1/3 of the quilt base, which is a flannel sheet cut to the size I am making.
