Patchwork Robe: the Illusion of Random
The Pattern: ko-fi.com/s/c7b0f2c44e
Making Bilbo’s robe was a dream project recognized for me, and it was made entirely for free - the fabric came not only from my stash, and the trash cans of my theater and neighborhood, but the robe also incorporates dozens of fabrics from people on my hometown Buy Nothing group who wanted to be part of the project, and donated their old clothing, quilting remnants, upholstery scraps, etc.
The whole video about sewing his housecoat is here: • Bilbo's Patchwork Hous...
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The Pattern: ko-fi.com/s/c7b0f2c44e
@megwilson157
Жыл бұрын
Where's the housecoat pattern tho? This is just for squares?
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Yup, as I said in the video, the patterns for the patchwork squares are available on my Ko-Fi. The pattern for the housecoat is not only shown in the original video, but (as is the case in all my videos), linked in the description of the original video as well.
@megwilson157
Жыл бұрын
@@ShannonMakes got it! Thank you
@cathycurrier4443
5 ай бұрын
Link doesn't work
Thank you for this!!! I kept thinking I would figure out the rectangle dimensions.... You are an angel!! My granddaughters will get their quilts much sooner than I planned. 😉
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
You are so welcome! Glad I could help, and I hope your granddaughters LOVE their quilts!!
I made a quilt exactly like this. All decorator fabrics with different textures and colors, in random looking pieces. I lined it with cotton, and backed it with flannel. I gave it to my mom, and she said it's the warmest blanket in the house, and everyone wants it when it gets cold.
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Oh, I definitely believe it - this is already quite heavy and it's not even lined!!
This is probably how they went about making this garment for the movies. I’ve sat on set for hours with scenics painting on dirt and grass stains on jeans to achieve a realistic amount of randomness and distress
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Many people have studied the original (including myself, but there's a blog post that goes WAY in-depth trying to figure it out), and if there is a pattern (which I agree, surely there is), it's far less obvious than mine!
Organized randomness.....and there's a pattern available.... congratulations !
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!! 🥳
I have been quilting for about 10 years. I have the scraps and the quilt making process down. Its the robe making part that I need to work on ☺️ you did a great job on both!
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
awww, thank you!!
I made a puff quilt for my little sister and I damn near lost my mind I could NEVER with this pattern. Her puff quilt was the first and possibly the LAST quilt I will ever attempt lol
@perplexingHodgepodge
Жыл бұрын
Don't give up!! I've been quilting for years and the idea of a puff quilt gives me chills lol. You started with something pretty complicated, so you're already an expert in simple patchwork!
Okay, this is brilliant!!! I'm in the process of making a patchwork quilt with pieces of varying sizes, and this sounds SO much easier than doing the whole quilt as one!!
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Yea, definitely!!!
Waouh ! Très joli casse-tête !! Et merci pour la mise à disposition du patron ! 🌸🌸🌸
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Merci bcpppp!! 🥰🥰
It’s beautiful! I’ve made only two quilts in my life and I wouldn’t do another one at this point but I do love seeing what other people make!
@ShannonMakes
11 ай бұрын
Thank you! Very much worth the time and effort!
Aaaah thank you !! I have been gathering materials for a very similar project to your housecoat several months before I saw your video, and my first idea was to make the patchwork "regular", but since I've seen yours... it's running in the back of my head all the time ^^ I've tried to make my own version of the "basic square" but failed so far, so I'm suuuper glad you decided to share it !
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
You've very welcome, and the best of luck with your own housecoat... they're so worth it!
I'm going to talk to my Daughter-in-law about PDF as I know nothing about🤔 it. She has her own online business and knows a lot about things like that. Should prove highly educational!😀👋
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
She should definitely be able to help you, it's a very easy process to download the PDF and print it off (just tell her that it's important to print it off at "100%" or "actual size" so that the squares come out at the correct scale)! 💜♥️💙
@damogranheart5521
Жыл бұрын
@@ShannonMakes Thank you very much. I hope you have a wonderful week!
Rob looks fabulous. Yes I will do one.
I love this project! It sent me into a quilting goose chase that I'm thoroughly enjoying. I'm still only learning but it's soothing and enjoyable.
This is absolutely brilliant, but no way would I attempt this. It's just so much work!
Omg I want that as a skirt!!!
This would make an incredible skirt!
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! It would be a very heavy skirt, but also very beautiful!
@taryngarrette2369
Жыл бұрын
For sure! Definitely a winter skirt!
I absolutely love this! I am not audacious enough to take it on… yet!!!! 😂
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
If it's encouraging at all, I'd say it's kinda a great project for any level, because you're just using scraps, and only sewing straight lines, and it takes a long time, but you can just leave it and come back to it whenever your schedule allows, so all it requires is patience, but not tremendous skill... however it does definitely require patience!! And thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
I do not have close to the skill or patience to make this, but I love it so much as a blanket. 😮
I’ve never seen the golden rectangle have any use outside of a math class 😍briliant!
Heck nah, but i love how creative and talented you are!
This is gorgeous you are very talented
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊 ❤️
I need one. Now. Right TF now. FETCH MY SEWING MACHINE!!
This gives coat of many colours, remember monet wore a custom patchwork coat for the Dolly Parton runway, I always wondered how it was made.
I am audacious enough to create a patchwork 'medieval cloak' from clothes because my character did. Cutting the clothes into as few pieces as possible but using as much of the fabric as possible. Based on a 12 inch square, I have a 10 x 12 piece waiting for one or more 2 inch pieces, some 3x3s , a 3x more than 12 and even a 12x24. All with extra 1/2 inch seams coz fiddling be damned Natural fibres, what i hope are medievalish colours and patterns, and hand sewn if possible for authenticity. 2 layers of shirt weight material coz it's too hot in Australia to wear a thick cloak.
Omfg! I am so tempted to get the sewing machine out immediately.
Great idea for scraps tbh
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Exactly!!
What a background for making a card !
@ShannonMakes
10 ай бұрын
huh?!
I'm into crazy quilt patchwork clothing... working an a patchwork skirt right now.
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
lovely!!!
That is an awesome robe!
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Super warm, and oretty but heavy❤
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Love the weight, it's like wearing a hug!
Yes. Yes I am.
This is so useful thank you! I can’t wait to try this one day
Omg. I have wanted to make a bilbo robe for years now! I have several yards of velvety corduroy in a few different patterns that I have been saving for it. On my way to buy the pattern!!
@ShannonMakes
11 ай бұрын
Amazing!! Best of luck to you, it’s time we’ll invested, to be sure! ♥️💙💜
This is the exact pattern I used for my potholders
Beautiful!!!
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
It looks awsome.
@ShannonMakes
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
so cool 🥰
This is amazing
@ShannonMakes
11 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Brilliant idea. I think i'm gonna try making one 😍
@ShannonMakes
8 ай бұрын
Go for it! I have a whole video on my channel, if you'd like more details on the process (and a great story to go with it)!
Wow
Great job
@ShannonMakes
11 ай бұрын
Thank you!
This is wonderful. I would like to make something like this, but sadly my sewing room, my grandmothers sewing machine and most of my collected fabrics died in a flood two years ago and so I can only put it in the "project for a faraway future" category. But still, one day I'll be hopefully able to make this.
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
I mean, if you watch the full length video, you'll see that I did a lot of it by hand (also, second hand machines can be super cheap on Marketplace or Craigslist), and that I didn't spend a single dime on fabric, I collected it from neighbors that didn't want it, from dumpsters, from the side of the road... I realize that's not possible for everyone to do, but it could definitely be an option to consider!! (also, highly recommend the full length video, it's one of my fav ones) 💜💙♥️
@IISheireenII
Жыл бұрын
@@ShannonMakes Oh I watched it, don't worry :D And thanks for the suggestions, but most of them don't work for me. There are no dumpsters around here (unless we count the one closed off behind the supermarket, but there wouldn't be any fabric in there anyway) and there aren't any people offering free fabric, I could get it for ridiculously cheap though, as in 1€ per kg for decently sized scraps. But right now I have different priorities and no place to store something like that since I can't use half of my house and it is near impossible to get someone to fix that.
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Yea, that's totally fair... the good news is that the internet (for better or worse, sometimes) is forever, so you can always refer back to the video when you're in a situation to pick up sewing again! Thanks for watching
@sq5
Жыл бұрын
@@IISheireenIII'm really sorry to hear about the flooding and damage. That's a really awful thing to have gone through and have to recover from. ☹️
@IISheireenII
Жыл бұрын
@@sq5 thank you, it is kinda stressful. But I also had lots of luck so I can't really complain too much compared to those who completly lost their homes or even family members (the 2021 flood in rhineland western germany if you are interested) If I look at what others lost that day, I can only be thankful that the most important things I lost were only my sewing supplys and the use of my ground floor (struckture seems fine thankfully). A bunch of rubble got lodged sideways between two buildings and sort of build a dam sparing my street from worse. Still depressing and stressful though, so it sometimes feels good to complain about it anyway.
NICE!❤️
@ShannonMakes
10 ай бұрын
Thanks 🔥
You kick total ass.
@ShannonMakes
8 ай бұрын
Thank youuu!! 🫶🫶
If I deconstructed the patchwork quilt my grandma made me I'd have a whole wardrobe. She made it big enough to be a king sized bedspread. It weighs a ton. 🙂💕🖖
@ShannonMakes
10 ай бұрын
Oh I believe it, this robe is quite heavy (in a good, "I'm walking around in a hug" sort of way)
I have a lot of derelict fabric this might be great for.
Love it! My grandmother would have called that a crazy quilt, at least each square was... though hers actually didn't even use square cuts! Don't know how she did it...
@ShannonMakes
10 ай бұрын
That's because a crazy quilt is a whole separate thing and very different technique. Crazy quilt actually IS random, whereas this is just the illusion of random!
@IMChrysalis
10 ай бұрын
@@ShannonMakes Exactly! Though I do think she would have said that... lol And she would have used it, too. She even made quilts out of WWII uniforms... as long as it works, anything goes, y'know. I think you'd have liked her...
@IMChrysalis
10 ай бұрын
I'm not the quilter in the family, my youngest brother was. Back in my heyday, I made Medieval and 17th century garb for the SCA...
Would love to have this robe! Not sure I should tackle that. 🥰
Master class❤
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Am I audacious enough? Yes. Am I skilled enough? Absolutely not. Would I still try to do this? Absolutely yes.
My goodness
I have so many projects and yet…😅
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Right?! The pull is strong.... the good news is that this project can be made with the scraps from all your OTHER projects!! 🤣
@tiffanytomasino335
Жыл бұрын
@@ShannonMakes …dam* now I have to make it 😅😂
Every quilter ever: First time?
@ShannonMakes
10 ай бұрын
I mean, it's not difficult, it's just time consuming
@pamelah1220
10 ай бұрын
@@ShannonMakes I know you're explaining for the lay people.
O M G
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
you should definitely check out the full video, if you think the short extract is good!!
It’s called crazy quilting.
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
...except that this isn't actually crazy quilting, neither by today's definition nor by the Victorian method?
@moniquewalker5412
Жыл бұрын
More just putting together a quilt not so much a crazy quilt.
Autistic here and the sensation of seams (as well as those dratted labels) make my skin crawl and makes me want to climb the walls. Pretty yet torturous....
OH, frick.. now I want to sew
@ShannonMakes
11 ай бұрын
There are worse things… 😂
@mariedillingham199
11 ай бұрын
@@ShannonMakes well.. time is an issue... and I'm in the middle of a crochet project, and several art projects.. and I don't have any fabric for sewing with...
Its called crazy quilting.
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
but... this isn't crazy quilting, neither by the Victorian definition, nor the modern one🤔
Says every quilter in the world. 😂
Where do you buy fabric? Just curious? I've been to one of the big stores in the city, ToniTex, as I'm upholstering furniture. I found the store confusing, though. Looked at the wool section and it doesn't seem like they separate the polyester faux wool from the real stuff. A lot of fibres are unlabelled, as well. Nice people at the store, though, and it's huge.
@ShannonMakes
10 ай бұрын
This is all thrifted or donated clothing, didn’t buy anything for this project. But if you want to see the warehouse I sometimes go to, I have a whole video on it here: The GIANT Fabric Warehouse You've Never Heard Of: Tour & Fabric Haul kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKR9rMF9ZqqyhKw.html
Look up Einstein tiles and aperiodic patterns!
Hi sweetie! ❤😊
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Hello 😊!!
Not even remotely! Lol but im impressed that you can! Lol
What actual pattern did you use for the housecoat?
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Linked in description of full video!
Also subscribable content haha
I think it would be more effective if the larger squares were then staggered somehow... The grid seams are hard to unsee now that I know 😭
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Then find a different pattern for your own 🤷♀️
I’m done. Nothing new in ages. All snips of old crap.
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
It's not an airport, no need to announce your departure 😘
@jlammetje
Жыл бұрын
@@ShannonMakes great reply 😅
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
@@jlammetje Thank you 🥰 I literally in the middle of a giant project that involved making an entire set of historic undergarments, and I think some people... underestimate... how much time it takes both to make and then to film/edit good quality garments and videos. I could just start churning out weekly vlogs with mediocre quality, but that's not really what I'm into, ya know!?
@jlammetje
Жыл бұрын
@@ShannonMakes For sure! I'm always confused when content creators feel the need to apologise for not uploading every week (or even twice a week!) and get stressed over maintaining a schedule, when I really don't care how much time goes between uploads. But then I see a comment like Cheryl's and I get the stress creators feel. Especially for creators like you, who also have a "regular" job (not sure "circus performer" counts as regular, haha), we should just be happy with what we get 🙂
@Traci_Websinger
Жыл бұрын
@@ShannonMakes that's okay, this is the first thing of yours I can remember seeing and between this and your comment, I just subscribed. Quality trumps quantity!
Fantastic
@ShannonMakes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!