Man Quilt?
08-04-2011, 03:21 AM
#21
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: SoCal
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Some one just posted a lovely chinese coin quilt made out of Civil War reproduction prints. Very classy looking. Either that or one made out of patriotic colors if he likes that.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-142281-1.htm
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-142281-1.htm
08-04-2011, 04:11 AM
#23
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Farmers Branch (Dallas) TX
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Any quilt with stars is great for a man - just pick "manly" colors - but be sure to put in a red or bright green or something that will make them pop. Make the stars large so you don't need as many blocks. I did one out of scraps of dark blues, browns, dark greens, but made sure I had read in every block somewhere - it was dynamite!!
08-04-2011, 04:19 AM
#24
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Central Coast CA
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A couple of weeks ago I showed my parents several lap quilts I've recently made. My Dad fell in love with one, a black and grey one-patch quilt. From top to bottom I had inset a 15-inch-wide strip of soft purple dragon fabric with freehand-curved seams. I would have never guessed that would be the one he'd choose!
I made a friend a green quilt as that was one of her favorite colors. She thanked me warmly, but I felt the warmth was for ME, not the quilt! So I took over a half-dozen quilts and told her to choose whichever one she liked best...and she chose a brown-toned one with leaves and leaf-motif quilting I had made intending it as a 'guy' quilt! She loves it!
There are just NO rules!
I made a friend a green quilt as that was one of her favorite colors. She thanked me warmly, but I felt the warmth was for ME, not the quilt! So I took over a half-dozen quilts and told her to choose whichever one she liked best...and she chose a brown-toned one with leaves and leaf-motif quilting I had made intending it as a 'guy' quilt! She loves it!
There are just NO rules!
08-04-2011, 05:30 AM
#28
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 169
You could do 10 inch squares to the size you want. I just made my dad one that is 30 x 60, 3 across and 6 down. I then added a small border and it looks great. A fun quilt for a man or woman is the take 5, but it is bigger than a lap quilt.
08-04-2011, 05:30 AM
#29
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Jozefow, Poland
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I made my dad a John Deere quilt and I made a lady a music quilt. The music quilt could be for a man though. Here they are.
John Deere front
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John Deere back...and I think he likes it better than the front (and so do I). If I could do it again, I'd make an attic windows using this fabric. But I didn't know then what I know now!
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Music quilt with real piano keys border. :)
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