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    Old 11-04-2009, 06:27 AM
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    HI all, I'm usually just a looker on here but I need some ideas for a friend of mine who has been asked to make a wall hanging for a Agriculture show that will be auctioned off at the end of the show. She needs ideas. This is such a creative group I'm hoping you can help me. :lol: :lol:
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    Old 11-04-2009, 06:36 AM
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    A red work or blue or better yet a Green work with the flowers around your area.
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    Old 11-04-2009, 06:40 AM
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    When it comes to specific themes like that I always thing of embroidered blocks. I have done a couple of John Deere tractor themed quilts and are always very popular and make a lot of $$ out of them in raffles and auctions.

    If you or her have an embroidery machine just get a few motifs and use them for the center of the blocks. They get so much attention that it doesn't require much around, just something simple with green and yellow.

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    Old 11-04-2009, 07:08 AM
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    Quiltmaker had some paper pieced veggies:
    http://www.quiltmaker.com/articles/pickapeck
    http://www.quiltmaker.com/patterns/details.html?idx=403

    fat cat patterns has a really cute tractor, chicken, cow, pig, sheep
    http://www.fatcatpatterns.com/

    good luck

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    I have seen fabric with fruits and veggies on it. Maybe a jar quilt using those.
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    Old 11-04-2009, 07:47 AM
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    http://cowpaddockspatchwork.typepad....-stitches.html


    did you see this on another post? it seems to fit your request
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    Old 11-04-2009, 08:15 AM
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    THANKS EVERYONE for your ideas, I'm passing them on! :D
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    Old 11-04-2009, 08:21 AM
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    If you want to go the traditional route, Corn and Beans is a great block to use.
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    Repeated blocks
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    Old 11-04-2009, 10:27 AM
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    Our guild challenge this year is to make a quilt / wall hanging with the theme "Our Farming Community," so I'm making a Log Cabin quilt with a Straight Furrows setting. I guess you'd have to know about quilting to know the connection to agriculture, though!

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    Old 11-04-2009, 10:38 AM
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    I am a north dakota farm girl so I do know that. In fact that is one of the suggestions I gave her. :D I'm going to get a pic of it when it is done to show you all.
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