Saturday, December 31, 2011

The Hundred Dresses


This wall hanging is titled "The Hundred Dresses."  I made it after reading the book, The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes.  I loved the book and wanted to do something to encourage people to read the book.  Here is what I thought of.  I have it hanging in my office at work and have actually had people read the book after seeing this.  Yeah!

Anyway, to make this I used only scrapes that I had.  I didn't buy any new material for this one.  I cut out dress after dress until I finally had a hundred of them. Then a friend and I embellished the dresses with ribbon.  I quilted this wall hanging on my regular sewing machine (I don't think I will do that again).  I do love it though!  And I hope if nothing else it will inspire you to go read the book!