How is a Marilyn Monroe quilt made? | October 16, 2023 | The Advocate - video Dailymotion

Mary Herbison explains how she pieced together an award-winning handmade quilt of Marilyn Monroe.  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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