Old Clothes Quilts (& some Gee's Bend)
American Gothic
Made from Old Clothes
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Close up of above
Made from old clothes...
Old Clothes Quilt
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Detail of an Old Clothes Flag - The man can quilt!
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Luke Haynes also quilts on coffee sacks...
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Luke says he has been influenced by Gee's Bend Quilters.
Gee’s Bend is a small rural community southwest of Selma, Alabama. The community was formally the site of cotton plantations, primarily in the hands of Joseph Gee and his relative Mark Pettway, who bought the Gee estate in 1850. After the Civil War, the freed slaves took the name Pettway, became tenant farmers for the Pettway family, and founded an all-black community nearly isolated from the surrounding world.
Old Clothes Quilt
The town’s women developed a distinctive, bold, and sophisticated quilting style based on traditional American and African-American quilts, but with a geometric simplicity reminiscent of Amish quilts and modern art. The women of Gee’s Bend passed their skills and aesthetic down through at least six generations to the present. www.quiltsofgeesbend.com
Gee's Bend Quilt
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Gee's Bend Corduroy Quilt
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Gee's Bend Quilts
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Gee's Bend Quilts
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Gee's Bend Quilts
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Gee's Bend Quilts
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Work Clothes Quilt - Gee's Bend
By Loretta Pettway Bennett
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Detail of a Gee's Bend Quilt
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Seascape made from retired blue jeans
by Tom Deninger
Rivets, tabs and labels turn into sand and pebbles;
pockets and frays become waves and sea foam.
tomdeiningerart.com
There are many artists out there who will take your old clothes and make a personalized quilt for you...
Passage Quilts
By Sherri Lynne Wood
Beautiful work...
www.passagequilts.com
Alix Joyal of Mamaka Mills, creates one of a kind custom quilts and
throws on the Seacoast of NH using recycled and repurposed textiles and
fabrics. www.mamakamills.blogspot.com - www.etsy.com $150-$650
Recycled Clothing Quilt
By Sara of Halifax, Nova Scotia
Men's Shirt Quilt
Ocheltree Design $1800.
www.ocheltreedesign.com
Alix Joyal of Mamaka Mills, creates one of a kind custom quilts and
throws on the Seacoast of NH using recycled and repurposed textiles and
fabrics. www.mamakamills.blogspot.com - www.etsy.com $150-$650
Men's Shirt Quilt
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Close up of Moondance
By Naomi Wanjiku
www.naomiwanjiku.blogspot.com
Patrick Nolan 'Galaxy'
An avid recycler who lives in a recycled 105 year old former general store in Foristell, MO. Possibly a source for all those buttons. E-mail via www.foundryartcentre.org
Patrick Nolan 'Galaxy' close up.
Recycled fabric, buttons, jewelry. E-mail via www.foundryartcentre.org
Very Cool Men's Tie Quilt
Quilted Trash
8th Graders at Carson Middle School
Use a quilting template but glue on cut outs.
www.encouragementlounge.blogspot.com
More ideas for your old clothes:
Old baby clothes quilt.
Make grocery shopping bags.
Make gift bags or simply wrap a present and use ribbon to close.
Make winter accessories. Make a scarf hat and mittens from old sweaters.
Add hidden pockets to jackets.
Make doll clothes or stuffed animals.
Make bean bag chairs, filled with all those horrible peanuts.
Make a dog bed. Make dog clothes.
Donate to charity. Use as rags. Find a textile recycling center.
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