Wedding Guest Quilt
04-10-2013, 03:56 PM
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Wedding Guest Quilt
My Maid-of-Honor pinned an idea on my secret wedding board that I LOVED, instead of a guestbook, a guest quilt! Yes, I want have my guests sign a quilt.
So, my wedding is in July, and I don't have the time to really plan anything too crazy but I want it to look nice and be able to knock out the top of the quilt in a couple of sittings, have the guest sign on that and save the finishing (batting/backing/quilting/binding) for after the wedding so I can finish at my leisure and not have the fabric markers bleed through the quilt. I have experience quilting, so I know what I'm getting myself into.
I want to use 3 fabrics with the wedding colors Royal Blue and Sunflower Yellow with Ivory as a filler. I want it to be a queen sized. I was thinking of either doing a rail fence or a tube quilt as these patterns seem pretty easy to cut a bunch of squares at once. Are there any other patterns that are easy sew and cut many squares in one go?
So, my wedding is in July, and I don't have the time to really plan anything too crazy but I want it to look nice and be able to knock out the top of the quilt in a couple of sittings, have the guest sign on that and save the finishing (batting/backing/quilting/binding) for after the wedding so I can finish at my leisure and not have the fabric markers bleed through the quilt. I have experience quilting, so I know what I'm getting myself into.
I want to use 3 fabrics with the wedding colors Royal Blue and Sunflower Yellow with Ivory as a filler. I want it to be a queen sized. I was thinking of either doing a rail fence or a tube quilt as these patterns seem pretty easy to cut a bunch of squares at once. Are there any other patterns that are easy sew and cut many squares in one go?
04-10-2013, 04:18 PM
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Have you considered just setting out cut blocks ironed onto freezer paper for the guests to sign? Cut the blocks the size you'd need for a rail fence, marking it so people don't write into the seam allowance. This is what my daughter made for my 70th birthday.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]407219[/ATTACH]The rails are 2.5" X 7.5" finished.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]407219[/ATTACH]The rails are 2.5" X 7.5" finished.
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04-10-2013, 04:41 PM
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04-10-2013, 05:16 PM
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Oooo, I just had a really cool thought! My flowers are going to be a sunflowers. If I could find a sunflower pattern and do solids for the stripes (Royal Blue, Sunflower Yellow, Ivory) so people can sign on those, that would be really neat looking.
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