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From: blackie
Date: 04-04-2007, 11:02 PM (1 of 15)
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I am collecting a few novelty prints to make my kids a quilt - a full-size one. My son loves skeletons, robots, butterflies, and mermaids. My daughter loves skeletons, dinosaurs, and space stuff. I am trying to figure out which ones to put together! So far I have some good skeletons. Non-tacky mermaid fabrics are pretty hard to come by! So anyway. As I am collecting fabrics I want a quilt top pattern that is strippy and / or fast. The novelty prints require about a 5" by 5" finished size. I am out of ideas! I don't mind computing my own yardage but I need some inspiration. Any help, tips, or moral support would be appreciated. see the mundane life of a housewife.
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User: blackie
Member since: 03-31-2004 Total posts: 594 |
From: MotherInLaw
Date: 04-05-2007, 12:22 AM (2 of 15)
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Blackie, I am doing a 6 hour quilt. It's a quilt as you go and it's just right to make for kids. I'll send you cover pic of the book, I think I paid 7.00 for the book on how to make it. I'll pm you so I can get your email address.
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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User: MotherInLaw
Member since: 06-25-2005 Total posts: 1118 
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From: CodyGramma
Date: 04-05-2007, 07:37 AM (3 of 15)
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If you go to this site, on the left side, click on quilt patterns and then go way down to the bottom and click on Wickedly Easy Quilts it has free instructions for a fast easy quilt.... don't know if it meets your 5 x 5 need or not but its one idea for ya! Sounds like it will be a neat quilt for the kids! http://www.byannie.com/ Patterns and supplies for quilters and fabric lovers |
User: CodyGramma
Member since: 04-22-2005 Total posts: 133 
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From: Jeke
Date: 04-05-2007, 11:36 AM (4 of 15)
I have been collecting 6 inch squares for an I Spy quilt. I am just going to put a narrow sashing between the squares and then add a border and binding. Keeping it simple
Jay
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User: Jeke
Member since: 11-10-2004 Total posts: 232 |
From: pinecone
Date: 04-05-2007, 10:33 PM (5 of 15)
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Warm Wishes is a real fast and easy pattern. http://www.quiltmaker.com/patterns/patt83/ I think the focus fabric is about 6" piney |
User: pinecone
Member since: 03-10-2007 Total posts: 59 |
From: blackie
Date: 04-06-2007, 12:01 PM (6 of 15)
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Thanks to all who responded. The "warm wishes" pattern looks ideal for me. Thank you so much! I knew I would get good help here.
see the mundane life of a housewife.
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User: blackie
Member since: 03-31-2004 Total posts: 594 |
From: AndreaSews
Date: 04-06-2007, 11:09 PM (7 of 15)
Blackie, I have been shopping recently for a quilt project and found the same dilemma re: kid-interest themes that aren't over the top. My daughter is looking for fairies, and while we've seen some out there, we haven't seen any that we'd like to see right on top of her bed for many years to come. A woman at a quilt shop offered me this nice idea. She said to use a very pale fabric, something light and washed out for those squares, and to use fabric-permanent ink with a rubber stamp. I googled fairy stamps and immediately found a load of stamps that would do the trick. I think this idea will help me honor her interests without making her a quilt that she'll hate when she's 7 or 8 and all grown up. 
Andrea
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User: AndreaSews
Member since: 02-18-2005 Total posts: 1007 
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From: HeyJudee
Date: 04-07-2007, 12:04 AM (8 of 15)
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Andrea, my cousin found what I think is a really nice fabric with fairies on it for a quilt that she is making. I'll try to find it and post a link.
TTFN from
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User: HeyJudee
Member since: 01-25-2005 Total posts: 1366 
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From: HeyJudee
Date: 04-07-2007, 01:10 AM (9 of 15)
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Andrea, I found the fabric that my cousin bought: Fairy Garden on Cream (http://www.fabricparadise.com/cgi-bin/fabricshop/gallery.cgi?func=show&file=95&Category=2&Page=2&v=1) While searching for that, I found this fairy panel that is being sold on ebay. Just had to post the link as I think it is really nice. Fairy-Garden-British-Quilt-Fabric-Panel (http://cgi.ebay.ca/Fairy-Garden-British-Quilt-Fabric-Panel-Label-Squares_W0QQitemZ190098692739QQcategoryZ43429QQtcZ photoQQcmdZViewItem) TTFN from
Judy |
User: HeyJudee
Member since: 01-25-2005 Total posts: 1366
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From: AndreaSews
Date: 04-07-2007, 10:57 PM (10 of 15)
Thanks  Those are really nice prints.
Andrea
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User: AndreaSews
Member since: 02-18-2005 Total posts: 1007
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From: blackie
Date: 04-11-2007, 09:28 PM (11 of 15)
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Andrea - if you can get your hands on Alexander Henry's pixie fabric (http://www.glassthimble.com/alexanderhenryfabrics.htm) - I'm sorry I don't have a better representation. There are cream, pink, and green backgrounds at least, maybe more. It's a beautiful, whimsical, but not obnoxious fairy print. I haven't succeeded in finding a mermaid fabric that isn't A. Disney's Ariel, or B. Very brightly / garishly colored with cartoony mermaids. OTOH, there have been loads of lovely skeleton / skull prints so that's been good. see the mundane life of a housewife.
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User: blackie
Member since: 03-31-2004 Total posts: 594 |
From: pinecone
Date: 04-12-2007, 01:22 PM (12 of 15)
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I haven't succeeded in finding a mermaid fabric that isn't A. Disney's Ariel, or B. Very brightly / garishly colored with cartoony mermaids. You can try here: http://www.quiltshops.com/search.htm Just type in mermaid and many places will come up.  piney |
User: pinecone
Member since: 03-10-2007 Total posts: 59 |
From: Bama
Date: 04-13-2007, 11:15 PM (13 of 15)
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blackie, I've made several "I spy" quilts for quick kid's/baby gifts by just alternating 5" novelty print squares with 5" squares of a solid or like-solid fabric. Like a checkerboard. |
User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116 
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From: Bama
Date: 04-13-2007, 11:18 PM (14 of 15)
| How about printing your own fabric squares using clip art? Or draw some mermaids on fabric (or have your kids draw them) using fabric crayons. |
User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116
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From: Sancin
Date: 04-14-2007, 04:52 AM (15 of 15)
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I have been looking for an Australian site I found several years ago for baby and children's quilts to send to you. All were a page long, quick and easy. I downloaded a few and did make one but don't seem to have the address on paper or in my favourites. Maybe a New Zealand er or Australian knows of it. The patterns were black and white. If you find it let me know!! I wish I could find it again.
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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User: Sancin
Member since: 02-13-2005 Total posts: 895 
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