Mary Herbison explains how she pieced together an award-winning handmade quilt of Marilyn Monroe.
Video by Jess Flint.
Video by Jess Flint.
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00:00 The way that it's done is you get a fusible, so you iron it on one side of the fabric,
00:10 peel off the bit of paper and then you can put it onto the quilt and just iron it back
00:16 onto there so it sticks the two pieces of fabric together.
00:20 The hair part was just completely made up as I went because that was hard to sketch
00:24 out so I thought I'll just, I knew the shapes that I wanted to try and define the curls
00:31 but then it was just make it up as I go.
00:33 I started it in June and I finished it just probably September, early September.
00:43 Time wise it's actually quite quick but I spend a lot more time per day than I do normally.
00:49 You've got you know such small quilting there that took days.
00:52 So the whole thing was done on a domestic sewing machine so all the quilting done in
00:58 the hair, all this background quilting, everything was just done on a domestic.
01:04 It's not a traditional quilt basically, it's something a bit different to that.
01:11 Yeah.
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