A "manly" quilt for a customer's father

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12-08-2010, 03:27 PM

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Cyn

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Nice!

12-08-2010, 03:37 PM

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Eddie

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Originally Posted by sandi65

Absolutely beautiful. If you don't mind me asking what pattern did you use. I need to make a quilt for my 13 year old grandson. (Dallas Cowboy colors), but have not found a pattern I like. I love this one. Beautiful work.

The pattern is very easy and fast to do. You take ten 5" strips of fabrics and sew then together lengthwise. You then cross-cut that into 2.5" wide rows. This creates rows of "bricks". You then cut 1/2 of a brick off the rightmost brick and sew that 1/2 brick to the left of the leftmost brick so that the rows are offset by 1/2 a brick now. Sew them together and now take another row and pick apart the seam of the rightmost brick and sew it to the left of the leftmost brick so that this row is now offset 1/2 a brick from the second row; then sew it to the second row. You then just continue on like this and it makes the zigzagging pattern.

12-08-2010, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Annaquilts

Very nice Eddie! If I may ask, what line is the home spun fabric from? I always enjoy looking at your quilts and or quilting work. Thanks for posting.

I used some wovens that I bought at the Houston Quilt Festival last month. They're made by Indo-U.S. They have a website ( www.indous.com ), but they don't sell from there. It looks like they only sell wholesale to shops. I'd like to be able to find somewhere online that carries their stuff because I really like it.

12-08-2010, 04:16 PM

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sueisallaboutquilts

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Beautiful, Eddie!

12-08-2010, 04:34 PM

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Very nice, especially for a guy!

12-08-2010, 04:52 PM

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quiltlady37

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That is a wonderful quilt. It is very masculine and yet the pattern could work for anyone depending on the fabrics that you choose. Thank you for posting it.