Swedish Christmas Straw Goats
 

does anyone have a drawing or picture of these that i might be able to adapt
to applique? I am working on designing a Christmas quilt (for me) using
symbols which remind me of Christmases growing up. Having a hard time with
this one even though the goats IRL are fairly simple. Unfortunately i don't
have any here anymore and the pics i am finding are at odd angles, not good
for applique.
Might just have to go with a pic of a straw heart, but would rather the
goat!

-- kellie
bergerk at sbcglobal dot net
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ber....net/my_photos

This is the best picture I could find
http://www.ingridsgifts.net/product....STRAWGOAT-11.5

--
Mary
http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948
"Kellie J. Berger" wrote in message
m...
does anyone have a drawing or picture of these that i might be able to
adapt
to applique? I am working on designing a Christmas quilt (for me) using
symbols which remind me of Christmases growing up. Having a hard time
with
this one even though the goats IRL are fairly simple. Unfortunately i
don't
have any here anymore and the pics i am finding are at odd angles, not
good
for applique.
Might just have to go with a pic of a straw heart, but would rather the
goat!

-- kellie
bergerk at sbcglobal dot net
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ber....net/my_photos

I've never seen a straw goat. What does he symbolize?

Denise in NH
My quilt guild:
www.amoskeagqg.org

not really sure what he symbolizes. But they are often found in front yards
or hanging on/around the Christmas tree. Usually tied with red ribbon.
Goats are evidently very important in Scandinavian history though. And many
of the "traditional" Christmas decorations I've seen are woven from straw or
carved from wood.
We had a Swedish exchange student back in 1980 and she brought some for our
tree that year, and for most years since we've had them out as decorations.
They are neat little guys!

-- kellie
bergerk at sbcglobal dot net
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ber....net/my_photos


"Denise G." wrote in message
...
I've never seen a straw goat. What does he symbolize?

Denise in NH
My quilt guild:
www.amoskeagqg.org

Howdy!
New one for me, so I looked around:
"from mia"
http://www.santas.net/swedishchristmas.htm
http://www.twilightbridge.com/hobbie...straw_goat.htm

Back to quilting...
Ragmop/Sandy

"Kellie J. Berger" wrote in message
m...
not really sure what he symbolizes. But they are often found in front
yards or hanging on/around the Christmas tree. Usually tied with red
ribbon. Goats are evidently very important in Scandinavian history though.
And many of the "traditional" Christmas decorations I've seen are woven
from straw or carved from wood.
We had a Swedish exchange student back in 1980 and she brought some for
our tree that year, and for most years since we've had them out as
decorations. They are neat little guys!

-- kellie
bergerk at sbcglobal dot net
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ber....net/my_photos


"Denise G." wrote in message
...
I've never seen a straw goat. What does he symbolize?

Denise in NH
My quilt guild:
www.amoskeagqg.org

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:36:18 -0800, "maryd"
wrote:

This is the best picture I could find
http://www.ingridsgifts.net/product....STRAWGOAT-11.5


I saw them in IKEA, so maybe a similar picture could be found on
their website?

Krysia
K.T. - starannie opakowana

2 goats draw Thor's chariot. (Thor Thursday = Thor's day, Nordic god of
thunder)
When the Christian church moved north, it gradually incorporated a lot of
pagan customs, but also put out a lot of anti-pagan propaganda. Thus goats,
black cats, pentagons etc. became symbols of the devil. (2 black cats pull
the chariot of Freya, the fertility goddess.) We don't always think about
it, but the Scandinavian countries did not become Christian until about 1000
years ago, and that was "officially" Christian, i.e. by royal decree.
Ordinary people certainly continued to do as they had always done, more or
less, although a lot of it went underground. I lived in Denmark for a long
time, and little straw goats and black cats were fairly common Christmas
tree decorations.
Roberta in D, home of the Christmas tree and ancient tree-worshippers

"Denise G." wrote in message
...
I've never seen a straw goat. What does he symbolize?

Denise in NH
My quilt guild:
www.amoskeagqg.org

Donald Duck for Christmas?!? Must be something like the Wizard of Oz for
Easter.

Betty in CT

How about this one:
http://www.genuinescandinavia.com/de..._ID=CR-2002-21

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:10:10 -0500, "Clooniff"
wrote:

Donald Duck for Christmas?!? Must be something like the Wizard of Oz for
Easter.

Betty in CT



Duck for Christmas sounds better than goose, teheheheheheh

Krysia
K.T. - starannie opakowana