TGIFF! - Wedding Blanket

Happy Friday all! As I mentioned on Wednesday, a friend asked for advice on getting her wedding shawl quilted. After some trepidation -- it was her wedding blanket after all! -- I volunteered to do it. This is a very cool tradition so I thought I'd share a bit more about it with you.

Timeless Treasure print
featuring Native American
women wrapped in brightly
coloured blankets.

In some Native American cultures, a wedding is celebrated with a blanket ceremony. Each member of the couple comes to the ceremony wearing their own blanket. These blankets represent their past lives. After the spiritual leader blesses the union, friends and family remove the individual blankets and replace them with one blanket that symbolizes the couple's new life together, which will be filled with happiness and peace. My friend and her new husband were covered with this joyful Timeless Treasure print during their ceremony.

We didn't want to detract from the print so we decided that a simple black backing and a stipple stitch in black thread would work nicely. To give it some pop along the edges, my friend chose a great light purple for the binding.

I've never done a whole quilt in a stipple stitch, but it was fun and I can now see why it's so popular. The finished size is 39" by 76". I'm very pleased with how it turned out and I think she and her husband will be too.

Wedding Blanket Quilt - Front 

Detail of the front and back,
showing the quilting

Linking up to KristyLou's Creations for TGIFF! Thanks for hosting KristyLou!