Making a quilt for a friend? Help needed
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I need to get some patterns to show and ask her if she likes them. Do you have any suggestions? She is an artist, and she just had knee surgery and a stroke, so I would like to do something for her, and I thought of making a quilt. I am seeing her tonight so I would like to have about 4-10 patterns that she might like. I have seen a few of her paintings, and they were of birds, so I'm thinking birds, but I am not sure, I want to ask her. Any ideas and helpful information would be great! I am planning on hand quilting it, so it is going to be a while before it gets done.
#3
Do you want designs of birds (applique, pieced) or do you want bird fabric? I just found these on ebay and I'm in love with them. I have a bird theme in my house so I'm thinking about bidding on these--but I'll let you have first option:
http://cgi.ebay.com/PERCHED-BIRDS-EM...3A1%7C294%3A50
I don't know if that link is going to work. If it doesn't, just go to ebay and search for "perched bird fabric". These are on a white background. She also has them on a gold background.
I made a quilt with 6 embroidered SunBonnet Sue blocks that I got from ebay. The colors are really much nicer in person that what my camera captured. And I will never again make braided borders.
http://cgi.ebay.com/PERCHED-BIRDS-EM...3A1%7C294%3A50
I don't know if that link is going to work. If it doesn't, just go to ebay and search for "perched bird fabric". These are on a white background. She also has them on a gold background.
I made a quilt with 6 embroidered SunBonnet Sue blocks that I got from ebay. The colors are really much nicer in person that what my camera captured. And I will never again make braided borders.
#5
http://quilterscache.com/B/BirdhousesBlock.html
this is one for bird houses that would be easy or you might buy bird print material and make that a center of a block.
this is one for bird houses that would be easy or you might buy bird print material and make that a center of a block.
#7
Thanks Sharon. That's why I wanted to show it to Quilter101. I couldn't figure out any other way to use just 6 blocks and it would have been wickedly expensive to buy enough of these to make a whole quilt with them.
#9
Bird patchwork designs go back a long ways- flying geese, duck's foot, birds of a feather, etc. you can tie quilts using a crow's foot stitch that looks like bird footprints. Lots of great applique and fussy-cut patterns out there, too.
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