While I haven’t worked on the #AHIQPockets prompt this month, I have used them in several older quilts. They are especially useful on t-shirt quilts. Sometimes the pockets can be cut out and added as a decal or appliqué.
Even better is when I kept them open at the top. The band shorts pockets of two sisters were added to their quilts so their mother could slip loving notes in them when they went to college.
Another young friend had a special doll she wanted to keep. I added a pocket and a short ribbon to the quilt so the doll could be snapped onto the ribbon and tucked in the pocket. She never worried about losing the doll and unsnapped it for washing.
Links to many of my old t-shirt quilts can be found here.
Ann
4 comments:
Fun ideas, thanks for sharing.
Thanks Ann. I have been working on a story quilt for a trip I made to Shetland and I am planning to use a small fabric bag as a pocket to hold written details about the trip.
That's a good idea. I already knew how useful pockets are on clothes but never realized how helpful they could be on a quilt until I made these. I look forward to yours.
The last Harley quilt I made I used a lot of the pockets with designs on them. That R.E.M. quilt I have in my blog header has a couple of pockets too.
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