Quilts from children grown clothes are filled with memories

The first pancake did not spill

« Because I have four grandchildren, the daughter of their raised clothes had to do. Some of them were extremely good quality, never crashed. The daughter tried to sell them on social networks because it was unfortunate to quit – no one had to take.

He asked his daughter to bring those kids’ clothes to Juškonis, where he lives. He promised to come up with something beautiful. When they began to lift them, put on, memories flooded. Finally, the idea of ​​making a blanket was made of them.

« I haven’t sewed out of knitwear yet, and most of those clothes – knitwear. I think to myself – I will try: after all, no one will give my head. Lucky. As the first pancake – I would say, not bad, » said Koncevičienė, even surprised.

And the girls were satisfied. Now, he says, every granddaughter already has a few such rugs, and here’s the Snow White – a shoemaker without shoes. Everything they sew out of the rags is donated to friends and relatives sometimes, but they confess that Lithuanians are in no hurry to pay several hundred per month to sew a bedroom.

Patience: You will not see, you will cut, you will take it – all the work will go to the dog on the tail. Snowdrops at one double bed blanket sometimes spend a few months. / Photo by S. Koncevičienė Personal Archive

You will not live out of the quilts

A woman looking for a job at the moment, she says that the quilts might be her livelihood – at least temporarily, but the whole problem is that Lithuanians are in no hurry to open their wallets. Why pay a lot if you can download China several times cheaper, ”she says. Snowdrops at one double bed blanket sometimes spend a few months.

Mostly she sews small rugs from children’s clothes, has also created pillow covers, various bags, cosmetics.

« The piece from children’s clothes for moms becomes a kind of remembrance of an album – every applique or drawing tells something, » she shares, who initially just cluttered, not taining too much in color, without any patterns.

Eventually, Snow White began to create thematic drawings. This is how the « Sea Horse », « The King on the Pea », « Dress », « Three Owls » and other quilts emerged. Occasionally, the layout of the pictures can last throughout the week. Until it reaches the result you like.

« I put on clothes, cut off the apps and put on. It is necessary to make one detail with the other to prevent the colors. The sewing machine. Because when the work is boiled, the materials of the materials, the threads fly throughout the house.

S. Koncevičienė likes to create scout rugs, but they are also sewn with various bags, cosmetic and pillow covers. / Photo by S. Koncevičienė Personal Archive

He learned to sew herself

An artistic soul Snow White is open – there was everything in life: both sewn, embroidered, crocheted and knitted. Especially during the period when they raised children. Has two sons and a daughter who awarded her mother as many as four grandchildren. The oldest is seventeen, at least three.

Did the grandmother already shared the secrets of quilted art with young people? « Oh, no … they don’t really care about them. True, the eldest of silk creates very beautiful flowers, and the other granddaughter draws very nicely, apparently, otherwise those arts break through the genes, » says Koncevičienė.

The woman says she never attended professional sewing courses, and no one taught her. Mom had a simple sewing machine to which her daughter sometimes let. That’s how he learned.

The quilts, admits, admired it all the time, but did not really imagine how they were done. « In the beginning, there were no internet, » he smiles. « When I already came up, I started looking for lessons on how to sew quilts, » she says.

For the first test, he used what he found in the attic of his home: his son’s shirt and the old daughter’s dress. « At first, I just wanted to try this art.

Is it unfortunate to sell when so much work has been put in? « Obviously unfortunate, but where did you go? When I sold such a nice blanket with a Juri horse, before giving it, I would grab it all, I bought it, but brought it to Montenegro.

A piece from children’s clothes for moms becomes a kind of remembrance of an album – every appliqué or drawing tells something.

The most difficult is accuracy

Turning the outbursted clothes into other useful items requires a lot of precision and patience. Inaccurately see, cut, assume – all the work will go to the dog on the tail.

And a lot of space needs to have a lot of at home: it is not a joke to put a almost 3 m wide drawing out of the cloth. As the sons were already growing up, they left home to create their lives, and the Snowman stayed in a room where she set up her workshop. Bought a giant used table – no longer need to crawl under the floor.

The most important tools she uses in her work is the cutting mat, ruler and wheeled knife. Another sewing machine and necessarily – the iron, as each sewn seam still needs to be folded and smooth.

« This is a long process. Of course, there are mistakes. I was stitched on the opposite side – I had to disassemble. Then I was very angry with myself that I didn’t look at it, I didn’t do it because it takes a long time, » Snowdrop shares, whose beautiful zigzags help with golden patience and many hours of practice.

The funniest thing, says, to come up with patterns, color combinations, paintings – orders are not very enticing. « Of course, I can do it according to specific desires, but I prefer to create what I want, » she says.

Sewing clothes does not pull

When it begins to sew a double plaid, it takes all kinds of tricks to think that the drawing will not move out of place. Both the edges of the adhesive tape attach the edges and put on the weights. Laughs that you have to reinvent the bike yourself.

What color creators do most like? It turns out the colors are dictated by the materials available. They are looking for them in special facebook groups where women sell new fabrics. Sometimes they get gifts as well. With the note, « I see what you are doing and I know that those scraps will be used purposefully. »

The technique of clothing quilts is not sewn. Has only one dress sewn. Home items – rugs, bedspreads, napkins, tracks, laundry bags – are more attracted to the house. Another is toys the youngest granddaughter is most awaited.

« I gave her a quilted dragon in the year of the Dragon, and I am sewn in all kinds of animals, » says a 52-year-old grandmother.

Photo by S. Koncevičienė’s personal archive

In the summer – not embroidery but peonies

« In the spring, there is less time to sew. We live in the countryside, we have 30 a land. Part of it is my collection of peonies, » says a rag, with more than 100 species of different peonies.

When the flowers of one after the other begin to bloom in mid -June, and the Snow White itself cannot drink. Invites a village woman to guest – to admire, to enjoy. The most beautiful coral peonies for her.

The Snow White daughter is also a big flower lover – living in Kėdainiai district and raising roses. « As soon as the summer comes and we are starting to ride with her to each other – to show our flower beds to each other, » laughs the interviewer, whose rugs and bedspreads have a lot of floristic motives.

Although living in the countryside, pets do not grow. You only have a werewolf and a Scottish cat. « We don’t even keep the hens. We live in a city, » he laughs, adding that animals only sew animals. Here’s recently received an order to sew a turtle with a cat.

Active member of the community

Aldona Tamonytė-Dorritity, the leader of the community of quilted community, invited all lover of this type of art to participate in the Cold Barbecue Festival in Vilnius. On this occasion, the shallows are preparing a project of cold -bars, which decided to participate in Snow White. Created a quilt theme of cold -bars, even a t -shirt with his stamp.

« This year, Vilnius has been announced as the Green Capital of Europe. Sustainability ideas will also be emphasized at the Cold Bars Festival. – Aldona, the project’s creator, spoke, who is 100 percent in favor of Snow White. The woman is happy to join the community of rags and promises to participate in all their events.

« Last year I visited the sand, where the fourteenth exhibition of Lithuanian quilts in nature took place. Its organizer A. Tamonytė-Dorritity invited all women to their yard. We all came together with our work. Sew a raised quilt made of folded pieces of material, decorated with a quilt with acrylic paint, ”recalls Snow White, which was a lot of fun among like -minded people.

Photo by S. Koncevičienė’s personal archive

The household supports

« Abroad, especially in America, the art of quarrels is very popular. For some reason, people think that those quilts are beggar art, » the interlocutor laughs, having a whole gallery of different quilts on her phone. Someday, when there is a shortage of ideas, they say they will be able to use them.

The woman also raises her work to the foreign quilted facebook groups, because the liking lifts is very lifting. Like home support.

Initially, in the words of Snow White, the man, the children, looked suspiciously at her hobby. But when she saw what beauties she creates, she changed her opinion. « Now, if I sew, a man even makes lunch, brings me, » says the creator of the quilts.

He confesses to still not being happy with his work room, which, if he wants to handle and, if not, lives in a creative mess. « My room on the first floor, in the invisible area, does not stop anyone, » says the goldsmith.

You would like to find a job as soon as possible, and in your spare time, continue to improve your skills and try as many techniques of this art as possible.