Barb44

That is a great idea. I was just thinking last week when cleaning out drawers, that the stack of embroidered pillowcases my mother made could maybe go into a quilt.

I would do your tablecloth as a whole cloth quilt, too. Linen wrinkles a lot though so maybe it will need a lot of close quilting so it looks good after washing????

Be sure to post a picture when it is done.

LisaGibbs

I would whole quilt it as well as sometime cutting cross stitching can and will lead to several stitches coming out. Linen is a stinker that likes to shrink so close quilting is a definate.

pal

I wonder if you could cut out the excess white, so that you have a border and a center - and applique the embroidery on blue - or applique blue over the plain white, just using the embroidered parts. I think that is called "shadow quilting". It would be a lot of work, but I think well worth it. It has probably been washed enough times so that it wouldn't shrink any more. It's beautiful!!

lheartsl

a lot of work went into that.. i think I would just leave it as be.....

the casual quilter

You absolutely can. I agree with the other posts that a whole cloth will be gorgeous. You'll be able to show off some great quilting and keep the integrity of the embroidery in the table cloth. I can't wait to see it finished :thumbup:

sueisallaboutquilts

Oh my, that's a treasure!! I would do anything that would make you see and enjoy it more. The others gave you great tips :)

Ramona Byrd

Everyone has such nice ideas!! But the main thing she said was that she has TWO daughters, both of whom would like something from the past. I think the problem is that it must be cut apart to make two quilts, possibly with carefully matched colors to extend the original tablecloth. I'd like to see how that would be done. I think that making several pictures of it and cutting each of them apart and putting them into different patterns might show a way to make two quilts from this lovely piece of art.

thepolyparrot

Gosh, how lucky you are! There's so much room for quilting on these and so many options - maybe trapunto under the cross-stitching? I would definitely go the whole cloth route. :)

thepolyparrot

She has two similar tablecloths, so she doesn't have to cut them. :)

blueangel

It's a great idea