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01-06-2012, 11:53 PM

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JOMARIE

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I would like to see a block of the month where each month was a verse from a song. Everyone would interpet it in his own style of quilt work and share pictures each month.

01-07-2012, 12:16 AM

#12

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I have. Malvina Reynolds wrote, "The Turtle Song", I have actually made 2 quilts based on that song. "You can't make a turtle come out.......and when you forget that he's there.....he'll be walking around with his head in the air".

01-07-2012, 02:17 AM

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zoeytoo

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Originally Posted by Up North

Oh I got one now I want to g I just lost my best friend a few days before Christmas and it will be Debbie Boons you light up my life!! I got the idea now to find the right fabrics! and get at it! Thanks for the idea it will be a great memory quilt for me.

That was my wedding dance song. It makes me thing of a star in the upper right corner with rays of light coming from the star in different lengths and a landscape along the bottom. For me there would be two people dancing in the landscape on a romantic evening.

01-07-2012, 02:41 AM

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redmadder

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All of ghostrider's songs immediately started playing in my head. (Apparently I was born with a tape recorder in my brain).

01-07-2012, 04:41 AM

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Sewhappytoquilt

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Originally Posted by JOMARIE

I would like to see a block of the month where each month was a verse from a song. Everyone would interpet it in his own style of quilt work and share pictures each month.

I LOVE this idea!

01-07-2012, 04:51 AM

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gramajo

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Originally Posted by zoeytoo

zoeytoo, I would LOVE to see that quilt! Sounds gorgeous. If you make it, please post a picture.

01-07-2012, 09:48 AM

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Up North

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Originally Posted by zoeytoo

Because he was a friend I would make a starry window with a silhouette and a star with rays coming from it and quilt it with words like Hope Inspiration with a boat floating on the sea at the bottom.

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01-07-2012, 10:02 AM

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carslo

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Originally Posted by ghostrider

I'm working (still in design and fabric choice stage) on a series that are mid-60's songs with color titles...Black is Black (1966), Blue on Blue (1964), Mellow Yellow (1966), Purple Haze (1967), Red Rubber Ball (1966), A Whiter Shade of Pale (1967), and Green Tambourine (1967). Orange has me stumped, but I'm still digging. They'll each be monochromatic batiks.

I thought of the Orange Blossom Special by Johnny Cash might make a nice piece with applique!

01-07-2012, 11:32 AM

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dogpursemaker

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WOW! What a fun idea. I had a song immediately pop into my mind-might have to make note of this!

01-07-2012, 12:33 PM

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gramajo

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Originally Posted by ghostrider

ghostrider, What a great idea. DD, kuseta on this board, searched & came up with Orange Colored Sky by Nat King Cole, Orange Blossom Special by Dolly Parton, Orange Crush by REM, Orange Juice Song by Deep Purple & Evolution Orange by Earth, Wind & Fire. Orange Colored Sky gives me some ideas. Right, just what I need is another quilt to make.