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#61
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Desert Southwest
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Your chosen fabric is absolutely perfect for capturing the look of the Pottery Barn item. You will have a wonderful time working with such beautiful fabric. If she doesn't like it, well, her loss. You can always send it our way as I'm sure most everyone on this site would love to have what you make!
#63
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Keller, TX
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Beautiful Fabric! Why don't you ask if she wants the large blocks, or something with a pattern to it. If she likes the Pottery Barn quilt, then do that.....then, rather than criss cross quilting, do your free motion on the large blocks.
Good luck... did I say beautiful fabric....you have a great eye for fabric selection.
D in TX
Good luck... did I say beautiful fabric....you have a great eye for fabric selection.
D in TX
#64
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 111
I love your fabric choices. I'd love to know where you got them so I could use them on a quilt for myself. But since she has no further input don't stress about it. Just use your best judgment. This is a gift and since it is a gift it is what you want to do. Obviously she has no idea what is involved in making this quilt. Just include a note with my info and Ill purchase it from her LOL. Don't stress about it isn't quilting suppose to be enjoyabe?
IMO somewhere over time we have lost the concept of a gift. People are less grateful than in the past.
Diane
IMO somewhere over time we have lost the concept of a gift. People are less grateful than in the past.
Diane
#65
I love the fabrics you have chosen. If it were me, I would save myself the aggravation and simply make a quilt out of 8 or 10 in blocks and quilt it similar to what is show in the PB picture.
Coincidence here - my dearest friend (non-quilter) brought me the same pottery barn picture last fall and asked me to help her make a quilt out of it. She has selected the fabrics, washed, ironed and cut them, and as I am now back in MI we will be starting the quilt next week.
Good luck with your decision and your quilt. I know it will be gorgeous no matter what you decide on.
Coincidence here - my dearest friend (non-quilter) brought me the same pottery barn picture last fall and asked me to help her make a quilt out of it. She has selected the fabrics, washed, ironed and cut them, and as I am now back in MI we will be starting the quilt next week.
Good luck with your decision and your quilt. I know it will be gorgeous no matter what you decide on.
#68
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Dallas area, Texas, USA
Posts: 3,050
If there is any way to sound out her attitudes a little more specifically, you may find that she is thinking a homemade version of that store-bought (probably assembly line, foreign made) product is intended as a way for you to save money. If that's the case, you may want to rethink even making them a quilt. Save your talent for someone you know will appreciate it, or delay. Buy some wedding gift off their registry and after you have had a chance to get to know the bride better, make them the quilt that you can be sure will be appreciated later, such as Christmas or their anniversary. If they have a lot of wedding gifts coming in your special quilt might get relatively little notice. You can explain when you present the registry choice that you still intend to make them the quilt, but would like to get to know her and her style a little better first.
Another idea: if you are bent on making a "real" quilt, you could put the simple blocks on the back. Then they would have something that could be reversible, and there would be no better way of demonstrating the difference between the hasty style of that PB quilt and something that will be special and unique. I think I would still keep it somewhat simpler - perhaps a beautiful medallion with a large, plain inner border and a pieced outer border. Coordinating pillows or shams would likely be much appreciated.
#69
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 170
It looks to me like she must line clean, simple lines. Have you seen the patterns that use the layer cakes , 10 1/2 in squares? You could cut your beautiful fabrics into large squares and randomly piece them, crosshatch quilt, looks like at least 1" apart. Save enough of some of the fabrics to make pillowcases/shams and you will have copied the look, Good luck.
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