"Nulli Secundus" My Son's Battalion Quilt.
11-04-2009, 05:29 PM
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What a beautiful quilt and so heart stirring! I'm sure your son loves it dearly. You've given me an idea for a retirement quilt for my son next year. Oh, I do love your work!!
Hugs,
Sharon
Hugs,
Sharon
11-05-2009, 01:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Shemjo
Sew beautiful! I am dense, but would you translate the name please?
it means "Second to None" their Motto.
11-06-2009, 02:05 PM
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My sincere appologies for not being here to answer your questions.
Thank you all so much for the lovely compliments, they are very much appreciated.
Now to answer your specific queries.
Joeyoz and Tiffany, thank you for your links to the thimbles, with the amount of damage the fingers go through whilst hand quilting I'm definitely going to be ordering, despite the fact that I'm in the UK. lol it'll be worth it.
MaryAnna, Look to the emblems/symbols of your son's Regiment and Battalion. His Capbadge, Tactical Recognition Flash, their Colours, something that is a symbol of Home and County/State, the Regiments Motto and their uniform.
It took some real brain storming to come up with the designs that would look right and sew right on a quilt... with the colours balanced. For some ideas, here is the exact design on each block.
Shemjo and Butterflyspain, I've included all the translations in the description below.
Nulli Secundus
1. White Yorkshire Rose (his Home) on Regimental Tactical Recognition Flash.
2. The Lion of England on the England Flag (Hubby called the Lion Clarence because the first few times I tried to embroider his face, he was cross-eyed).
3. Soldier in Desert Combats. The fabric is from actual Desert Battle Dress... It's been in action!
4. Her Majestys Coldstream Regiment of Foot, The Coldstream Guards. My son's Regiment. Bearskin with Red Plume - Right side (His Bearskin on the quilt is actual furry fabric), Buttons in Two's (used gold beads for these). Actual gold thread for belt loops and buckle.
5. Infantry Shield
6. The Tower Of London, my son's favourite place that he's posted Guard. This is a very stylized version of the Tower, and it does have an embroided Traitors Gate at the water's edge.
7. Compass. The centre is the England Flag (where he started his journey from). Around the edge are the Tactical Recognition Colours, Blue-Red-Blue... the meaning being that the Regiment is going out to the 'four corners of the world' to use the old phrase.
8. Motto 'Nulli Secundus' does mean 'Second To None' because they are the oldest Regiment in continual service in the British Army and are liturally... Second to no Regiment.
The Tactical Recognition Flash also has a poignant meaning. The shorter version being,
Blue - The Air We Breathe,
Red - The Blood We Have Lost,
Blue - The Seas We Have Crossed.
9. This is the Regimental CapStar. The embroidered motto on this is ' Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense' which (if memory serves correctly roughly translates as ) 'Evil To Him Who Thinks Evil'.
The background fabric is a very pale cream with an off-white fern design on it. I hope this has been both helpful and informative of Britains oldest Regiment.
I hope you don't mind indulging me a little here lol, but my son has just rung home tonight... he's well but tired, the lads are in good spirits despite the terrible events of earlier this week, they are getting on with the job and would like to thank everyone who has been kind enough to send Care Packages.
Kindest Regards
Damkina
Thank you all so much for the lovely compliments, they are very much appreciated.
Now to answer your specific queries.
Joeyoz and Tiffany, thank you for your links to the thimbles, with the amount of damage the fingers go through whilst hand quilting I'm definitely going to be ordering, despite the fact that I'm in the UK. lol it'll be worth it.
MaryAnna, Look to the emblems/symbols of your son's Regiment and Battalion. His Capbadge, Tactical Recognition Flash, their Colours, something that is a symbol of Home and County/State, the Regiments Motto and their uniform.
It took some real brain storming to come up with the designs that would look right and sew right on a quilt... with the colours balanced. For some ideas, here is the exact design on each block.
Shemjo and Butterflyspain, I've included all the translations in the description below.
Nulli Secundus
1. White Yorkshire Rose (his Home) on Regimental Tactical Recognition Flash.
2. The Lion of England on the England Flag (Hubby called the Lion Clarence because the first few times I tried to embroider his face, he was cross-eyed).
3. Soldier in Desert Combats. The fabric is from actual Desert Battle Dress... It's been in action!
4. Her Majestys Coldstream Regiment of Foot, The Coldstream Guards. My son's Regiment. Bearskin with Red Plume - Right side (His Bearskin on the quilt is actual furry fabric), Buttons in Two's (used gold beads for these). Actual gold thread for belt loops and buckle.
5. Infantry Shield
6. The Tower Of London, my son's favourite place that he's posted Guard. This is a very stylized version of the Tower, and it does have an embroided Traitors Gate at the water's edge.
7. Compass. The centre is the England Flag (where he started his journey from). Around the edge are the Tactical Recognition Colours, Blue-Red-Blue... the meaning being that the Regiment is going out to the 'four corners of the world' to use the old phrase.
8. Motto 'Nulli Secundus' does mean 'Second To None' because they are the oldest Regiment in continual service in the British Army and are liturally... Second to no Regiment.
The Tactical Recognition Flash also has a poignant meaning. The shorter version being,
Blue - The Air We Breathe,
Red - The Blood We Have Lost,
Blue - The Seas We Have Crossed.
9. This is the Regimental CapStar. The embroidered motto on this is ' Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense' which (if memory serves correctly roughly translates as ) 'Evil To Him Who Thinks Evil'.
The background fabric is a very pale cream with an off-white fern design on it. I hope this has been both helpful and informative of Britains oldest Regiment.
I hope you don't mind indulging me a little here lol, but my son has just rung home tonight... he's well but tired, the lads are in good spirits despite the terrible events of earlier this week, they are getting on with the job and would like to thank everyone who has been kind enough to send Care Packages.
Kindest Regards
Damkina
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