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Old April 22nd 15, 09:53 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Pat on the Green
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This is the first 'thread' I have started since the changeover.

I am envisaging a scenario (the exact circumstances don't matter at
all), when I would dearly love to make small bed quilts for two girls (7
and 4) and a cot quilt for the new baby brother.
However, if I do embark on this project, I really need something quick
and easy. Some of you might remember that I don't usually do quick and
easy! But, if I let this idea take hold of me, I am not going to have
time for a specially designed and exotically quilted -(not that I used
to do that anyway gg) set of gifts.

What idea would be your favourite?

Thank for comments,

Pat on the Green
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Old April 23rd 15, 12:28 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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"pat on the green" wrote in message
...

This is the first 'thread' I have started since the changeover.

I am envisaging a scenario (the exact circumstances don't matter at
all), when I would dearly love to make small bed quilts for two girls (7
and 4) and a cot quilt for the new baby brother.
However, if I do embark on this project, I really need something quick
and easy. Some of you might remember that I don't usually do quick and
easy! But, if I let this idea take hold of me, I am not going to have
time for a specially designed and exotically quilted -(not that I used
to do that anyway gg) set of gifts.

What idea would be your favourite?

Thank for comments,

Pat on the Green

I believe that first I would think that if they are in the same room I would
make something similar, but in a different main color. Maybe the girls
would like quilts using the same color, but in a different simple design for
a border so they can tell them apart. (almost the same, but a little
different.) The left overs in fabric could be in a border for the baby,
using a blue color for a solid center. That is the first thing that comes
to mind. Hope it helps.
Barbara in rainy SC


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Old April 23rd 15, 12:44 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 1:53:07 PM UTC-7, pat on the green wrote:
This is the first 'thread' I have started since the changeover.

I am envisaging a scenario (the exact circumstances don't matter at
all), when I would dearly love to make small bed quilts for two girls (7
and 4) and a cot quilt for the new baby brother.
However, if I do embark on this project, I really need something quick
and easy. Some of you might remember that I don't usually do quick and
easy! But, if I let this idea take hold of me, I am not going to have
time for a specially designed and exotically quilted -(not that I used
to do that anyway gg) set of gifts.

What idea would be your favourite?

Thank for comments,

Pat on the Green


5 minute block quilts by Suzanne McNeill. They go together VERY quickly and depending on how you lay them out everyone looks very different so the kids don't all think they have the same quilt.

Debbi in SO CA
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Old April 23rd 15, 04:05 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:53:03 +0100, pat on the green wrote:

This is the first 'thread' I have started since the changeover.

I am envisaging a scenario (the exact circumstances don't matter at
all), when I would dearly love to make small bed quilts for two girls (7
and 4) and a cot quilt for the new baby brother.
However, if I do embark on this project, I really need something quick
and easy. Some of you might remember that I don't usually do quick and
easy! But, if I let this idea take hold of me, I am not going to have
time for a specially designed and exotically quilted -(not that I used
to do that anyway gg) set of gifts.

What idea would be your favourite?

I generally fall back onto central star patterns for fast and easy.
There is a great deal of versatility in those.
You can run the gamut from making your big diamonds out of little
diamonds or blocks (easily strip pieced) to making them just single
pieces each.
For three quilts in a short time, I would probably make them stripey.
You can make your stripes as wide as suits your inclinations, and run
them in whatever direction suits your fancy.
Doing something like a large single central liberty star, which is stripey
to begin with, for the cot quilt, and maybe amish spinning stars or a
star of bethlehem variation in coordinating colors for the other two,
would be the sort of direction I would go. Fast, easy, but not so simple
as to be mind numbing.
YMMV, as I'm sure you must have a fairly simple or simplifiable central
motif that you favor that could work similarly.

NightMist
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Old April 23rd 15, 07:07 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:53:03 +0100, pat on the green wrote:

This is the first 'thread' I have started since the changeover.

I am envisaging a scenario (the exact circumstances don't matter at
all), when I would dearly love to make small bed quilts for two girls (7
and 4) and a cot quilt for the new baby brother.
However, if I do embark on this project, I really need something quick
and easy. Some of you might remember that I don't usually do quick and
easy! But, if I let this idea take hold of me, I am not going to have
time for a specially designed and exotically quilted -(not that I used
to do that anyway gg) set of gifts.

What idea would be your favourite?

I don't have any specific suggestions, but once I made a baby quilt that
was a fence rail quilt, but I "specialized" it by making the blocks have
stripes in the progression of: white, yellow, green, purple, brown, with
the edging being black, in fact I think I have said something about this
quilt before. The colors are the progression of belts in the karate
school I was in at the time, which granted, was an interest of the
parent's and not an interest of the child's yet.

I am not saying to make a "belt quilt" but perhaps you could make a quilt
that is a quick and easy pattern that reflects the girl's interests,
though I can't give any specific suggestions since I do not know the
girls interests.

In the case of the baby brother, who presumably does not have any
interests perhaps you could get some printable fabric sheets and make an
alphabet quilt.

Perhaps you could do the girls quilts this way as well, just changing the
pictures that you print on the individual squares.

Doing this might make the quilts fairly expensive, but you know the old
saying in project management: "Fast, Good, or Cheap, to pick any two."

One time I posted to a different group about this quilt, I know it was a
different group because I tried to explain how to make a fence-rail
quilt, which I would not do on this group since I am pretty sure that
pretty much everyone here should know what one is.

Well, anyway, perhaps I should have just linked to a picture of what a
fence rail is.

Brian Chrstiansen
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Old April 23rd 15, 11:45 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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On 23/04/2015 07:07, Brian wrote:


I don't have any specific suggestions, but once I made a baby quilt that
was a fence rail quilt, but I "specialized" it by making the blocks have
stripes in the progression of: white, yellow, green, purple, brown, with
the edging being black, in fact I think I have said something about this
quilt before. The colors are the progression of belts in the karate
school I was in at the time, which granted, was an interest of the
parent's and not an interest of the child's yet.

I am not saying to make a "belt quilt" but perhaps you could make a quilt
that is a quick and easy pattern that reflects the girl's interests,
though I can't give any specific suggestions since I do not know the
girls interests.

In the case of the baby brother, who presumably does not have any
interests perhaps you could get some printable fabric sheets and make an
alphabet quilt.

Perhaps you could do the girls quilts this way as well, just changing the
pictures that you print on the individual squares.

Doing this might make the quilts fairly expensive, but you know the old
saying in project management: "Fast, Good, or Cheap, to pick any two."

One time I posted to a different group about this quilt, I know it was a
different group because I tried to explain how to make a fence-rail
quilt, which I would not do on this group since I am pretty sure that
pretty much everyone here should know what one is.

Well, anyway, perhaps I should have just linked to a picture of what a
fence rail is.

Brian Chrstiansen

Thanks very much for reminding me of Rail Fence. I had thought strips
might be quickest, but had completely forgotten this one.
I'm not sure when this will all come about, as they haven't quite
decided when to go back to their country of origin; but I am fond of
them and want to do something they can take with them, when they do go.
So, if I have pattern and more or less fabric ready, I should be able
to do it all as soon as I hear they are going.
Thanks Brian

Pat on the green
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Old April 23rd 15, 11:49 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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On 23/04/2015 04:05, NightMist wrote:


I generally fall back onto central star patterns for fast and easy.
There is a great deal of versatility in those.
You can run the gamut from making your big diamonds out of little
diamonds or blocks (easily strip pieced) to making them just single
pieces each.
For three quilts in a short time, I would probably make them stripey.
You can make your stripes as wide as suits your inclinations, and run
them in whatever direction suits your fancy.
Doing something like a large single central liberty star, which is stripey
to begin with, for the cot quilt, and maybe amish spinning stars or a
star of bethlehem variation in coordinating colors for the other two,
would be the sort of direction I would go. Fast, easy, but not so simple
as to be mind numbing.
YMMV, as I'm sure you must have a fairly simple or simplifiable central
motif that you favor that could work similarly.

NightMist

Thanks very much for this NM. I hadn't thought at all of a central
motif - sort of like a medallion quilt I guess.
I will do a little work on this and see how I get on. Maybe I could use
Brian's suggestion of Rail Fence for one of the borders.
This has been a very fruitful question.
Thank you for your contribution.
How nice it will be to work on a quilt whose design is from my friends
on RCTQ - at last!

Pat on the green
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Old April 23rd 15, 11:51 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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On 23/04/2015 00:44, Debbi in SO CA wrote:


5 minute block quilts by Suzanne McNeill. They go together VERY quickly and depending on how you lay them out everyone looks very different so the kids don't all think they have the same quilt.

Debbi in SO CA

Thanks very much for this idea Debbie. I will look the pattern up -
with my coffee in a minute! I will change the colours slightly -
trouble is both little girls like pink gg. Baby boy has no preference!

Pat on the green
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Old April 23rd 15, 11:54 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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On 23/04/2015 00:28, Bobbie Sews More wrote:


I believe that first I would think that if they are in the same room I
would make something similar, but in a different main color. Maybe the
girls would like quilts using the same color, but in a different simple
design for a border so they can tell them apart. (almost the same, but
a little different.) The left overs in fabric could be in a border for
the baby, using a blue color for a solid center. That is the first
thing that comes to mind. Hope it helps.
Barbara in rainy SC

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Thanks very much for this, Barbara. They both like pink, so that will
have to be there g but I can put in some shades of green and
purple/lilac. I like the idea of different (and obvious) main colours.

This idea of three little quilts is really getting hold of me now - and
I do have a lot of fabric I can use. I mostly collect for individual
projects, so I can look in my fabric drawers and know I can use
virtually anything!

This is now such fun!

Pat on the green
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Old April 23rd 15, 02:45 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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OK. I have looked up the 5-minute pattern online, and the various
combinations that can be made with the same block. This will now be in
my top 3 g.
Thanks very much everyone.

Pat on the green
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On 23/04/2015 11:51, pat on the green wrote:
On 23/04/2015 00:44, Debbi in SO CA wrote:


5 minute block quilts by Suzanne McNeill. They go together VERY
quickly and depending on how you lay them out everyone looks very
different so the kids don't all think they have the same quilt.

Debbi in SO CA


 




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