Suggestion for a quick and scrap friendly "rustic" looking quilt
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Suggestion for a quick and scrap friendly "rustic" looking quilt
Hi everyone,
I have a friend who learned two weeks ago that she have breast cancer and she just started chemo.
I live to far from her to be of any help, but I offer to make her a quilt and she accepted. I'm looking for ideas to have something done rather quickly.
She told me she would like to have one with blue, grey, cream, tan; that's perfect, I'm drowing in scraps of those colors.
Since she live in a old country house, so she asked for something with a "rustic" style. Now, I'm wondering what kind of pattern could create this kind of look. I'm more a bright/modern or vintage/modern quilter, so I don't have any clue.
Any ideas would be much appreciated. I want to start working on this as soon as possible, so she can benefit the warmth and love of a quilt while undergoing her treatment.
Thanks!
I have a friend who learned two weeks ago that she have breast cancer and she just started chemo.
I live to far from her to be of any help, but I offer to make her a quilt and she accepted. I'm looking for ideas to have something done rather quickly.
She told me she would like to have one with blue, grey, cream, tan; that's perfect, I'm drowing in scraps of those colors.
Since she live in a old country house, so she asked for something with a "rustic" style. Now, I'm wondering what kind of pattern could create this kind of look. I'm more a bright/modern or vintage/modern quilter, so I don't have any clue.
Any ideas would be much appreciated. I want to start working on this as soon as possible, so she can benefit the warmth and love of a quilt while undergoing her treatment.
Thanks!
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Double Slice would be quick and easy. If you want to do something fancier...
how about Log Cabin? Or a Rail Fence.
Someone posted this link a little while ago. It's a free pattern.
https://www.colorwaysbyvicki.com/the...t-pattern.html
how about Log Cabin? Or a Rail Fence.
Someone posted this link a little while ago. It's a free pattern.
https://www.colorwaysbyvicki.com/the...t-pattern.html
Last edited by EasyPeezy; 08-02-2019 at 12:50 PM.
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Personally, I would go back to her and ask her to describe what "rustic" means to her.
Here's why:
When my SIL got married, a relative asked what colors she liked so she could make a quilt in those colors. My SIL replied "earth tones". What she envisioned was sage greens, forest greens, ocean blues, sky grays, sandy neutrals, etc.
What the relative made was a Lone Star with what she considered to be "earth tones": chocolate brown, kelly green, bright yellow, fuchsia, and vivid orange. My SIL thought it was awful and stuck it in a closet for 25 years. I felt bad for both of them.
Please get clarification of what she sees in her head.
Here's why:
When my SIL got married, a relative asked what colors she liked so she could make a quilt in those colors. My SIL replied "earth tones". What she envisioned was sage greens, forest greens, ocean blues, sky grays, sandy neutrals, etc.
What the relative made was a Lone Star with what she considered to be "earth tones": chocolate brown, kelly green, bright yellow, fuchsia, and vivid orange. My SIL thought it was awful and stuck it in a closet for 25 years. I felt bad for both of them.
Please get clarification of what she sees in her head.
Last edited by Peckish; 08-02-2019 at 12:52 PM.
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I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's cancer. I will be praying for her & for you during this trying time in your lives. I went online to look for some rustic patterns & thought this was a free pattern but found out that it is not. I thought it was very pretty & would work up well with the colors you have to use. It looks like it would be pretty easy to create your own pattern. In the meantime, I'll keep looking.
https://www.countryporch.com/victori...otic-patch.asp
https://www.countryporch.com/victori...otic-patch.asp
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Personally, I would go back to her and ask her to describe what "rustic" means to her.
Here's why:
When my SIL got married, a relative asked what colors she liked so she could make a quilt in those colors. My SIL replied "earth tones". What she envisioned was sage greens, forest greens, ocean blues, sky grays, sandy neutrals, etc.
What the relative made was a Lone Star with what she considered to be "earth tones": chocolate brown, kelly green, bright yellow, fuchsia, and vivid orange. My SIL thought it was awful and stuck it in a closet for 25 years. I felt bad for both of them.
Please get clarification of what she sees in her head.
Here's why:
When my SIL got married, a relative asked what colors she liked so she could make a quilt in those colors. My SIL replied "earth tones". What she envisioned was sage greens, forest greens, ocean blues, sky grays, sandy neutrals, etc.
What the relative made was a Lone Star with what she considered to be "earth tones": chocolate brown, kelly green, bright yellow, fuchsia, and vivid orange. My SIL thought it was awful and stuck it in a closet for 25 years. I felt bad for both of them.
Please get clarification of what she sees in her head.
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Good luck to you and your friend, Profannie. I'm in a similar situation with my best friend from high school having a lumpectomy followed by the targeted radiation. Unfortunately we are a thousand or so miles apart and have to send her a quilt to give her the hugs I can't.
I've been having issues because I'm a planner, not a rapid response quilter! But this is what I know, it is more important for me to get this to her quickly than it be perfect. There will be plenty of time for us for me to make another quilt for her. She is going to know and recognize what this gift means and it means love.
Hang in there.
As for the design decisions -- I don't really know what "rustic" is. I can make some guesses, but I'd need more to go on. I recently got excited by a very fast and easy design called Simplish, here's where I first saw it:
2019 Fabric Moratorium
I think I could make it rustic style by a fabric that looks like peeling paint/fence boards and strips of colors stacked in the rectangles similar to the first pastel top, and then a coordinating fussy cut fabric in the squares.
Here's my first Simplish, I added a border and some other stuff...
Virtual Quilting Weekend--July 26-28, 2019
And here's an official tutorial on it:
https://www.shabbyfabrics.com/Assets...orDownload.pdf
I've been having issues because I'm a planner, not a rapid response quilter! But this is what I know, it is more important for me to get this to her quickly than it be perfect. There will be plenty of time for us for me to make another quilt for her. She is going to know and recognize what this gift means and it means love.
Hang in there.
As for the design decisions -- I don't really know what "rustic" is. I can make some guesses, but I'd need more to go on. I recently got excited by a very fast and easy design called Simplish, here's where I first saw it:
2019 Fabric Moratorium
I think I could make it rustic style by a fabric that looks like peeling paint/fence boards and strips of colors stacked in the rectangles similar to the first pastel top, and then a coordinating fussy cut fabric in the squares.
Here's my first Simplish, I added a border and some other stuff...
Virtual Quilting Weekend--July 26-28, 2019
And here's an official tutorial on it:
https://www.shabbyfabrics.com/Assets...orDownload.pdf
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I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's cancer. I will be praying for her & for you during this trying time in your lives. I went online to look for some rustic patterns & thought this was a free pattern but found out that it is not. I thought it was very pretty & would work up well with the colors you have to use. It looks like it would be pretty easy to create your own pattern. In the meantime, I'll keep looking
https://www.countryporch.com/victori...otic-patch.asp
https://www.countryporch.com/victori...otic-patch.asp
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Thank you Iceblossom. Our friends will get through this thing, and we will both make a perfect quilt for them later.
Simplish is an interesting variation to a coin quilt pattern. But I think it's best if you have some theme fabric (like the jungle animals you put in your's). I would use it if I had some plaid - but I only have some very neutral blue, grey and off white prints. Thanks anyway for the suggestion.
Simplish is an interesting variation to a coin quilt pattern. But I think it's best if you have some theme fabric (like the jungle animals you put in your's). I would use it if I had some plaid - but I only have some very neutral blue, grey and off white prints. Thanks anyway for the suggestion.
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