Tips for Decorating with Your Old Quilts
December 23, 2007 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
Decorating with quilts presents many possibilities. The quilts may be old or new, pieces salvaged and framed, quilts repaired and reconstructed and many other quilted items that add interest and color to the room’s decor.
An interesting article at STLtoday.com’s lifestyle section, Family Heirlooms Make This House a Home, by Susan Fadem with photos by Laurie Skrivan, describes decorating with old quilts.
There’s a framed yo-yo quilt, made from flour sacks, by a great-grandmother. This quilt originally was cut into three pieces so that each child could have a piece. Then it was cut into thirds again before being framed.
Another inherited quilt is draped across the bed.
These along with antique family furniture will give you ideas that you can use with your quilts and fabric art.
How have you used quilts for your decorating?
