Ideas please

I was given just over a yard of this fabric. I would like to make my
daughter and her DH a wallhanging for their new home that is being built.
Pattern ideas please.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...51370915ctbcJi

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Mary
http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:51:51 -0800, "maryd" wrote:

I was given just over a yard of this fabric. I would like to make my
daughter and her DH a wallhanging for their new home that is being built.
Pattern ideas please.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...51370915ctbcJi

Well, if it is for a new home, why not make it the center of log
cabin blocks? Make a big center to show off the fabric - say 4" or 6"
- and then add logs of other oriental fabrics. Don't have enough?
Shoot, you'll just have to go shopping!


-- Jo in Scotland

Can we hope that the yard of fabric is one that your daughter chose? If so,
I'm with Jo. You have no choice. Shopping is the only solution. Is there
enough selvedge for you to see the name of the manufacturer and, ahhh,
maybe, the designer? Anything? How about going to the website where they
search the quiltshops for you and type in "Asia"?
Silly me. Here I am trying to encourage you to use it - when I really
would like for you to send it to me. That is just a gorgeous fabric. Polly

"Johanna Gibson" wrote
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:51:51 -0800, "maryd" wrote:

I was given just over a yard of this fabric. I would like to make my
daughter and her DH a wallhanging for their new home that is being built.
Pattern ideas please.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...51370915ctbcJi

Well, if it is for a new home, why not make it the center of log
cabin blocks? Make a big center to show off the fabric - say 4" or 6"
- and then add logs of other oriental fabrics. Don't have enough?
Shoot, you'll just have to go shopping!


-- Jo in Scotland

I'm seeing this as a border fabric so you can see as much of the fabric as
possible. For the design of the wallhanging, maybe a total of 9, 9-inch
blocks -- double Irish Chain, or 54-40 or Fight alternated with snowballs.
Or, if there's some block name that seems to just fit DD and her DH, you
could use that. Now, this DOES mean you'll probably have to go shopping --
I'd try to match the background of Asia as closely as possible for all the
open areas in the blocks, or maybe you could use the pale green of the
lightest flowers. For the "chain" or for the star points, depending on the
block, you could use the pink or a slightly darker green. I'd probably
choose tone-on-tone fabrics, but that's me! Once the 9 blocks were
assembled, I'd put on a narrow border -- maybe 1" finished -- of a
tone-on-tone that was close to the green leaves in the Asia print, and then
the final border of Asia.

Whatever you decide, it's going to be beautiful -- this is a gorgeous
fabric.

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Louise in Iowa
nieland4 at mchsi dot com
http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa

"maryd" wrote in message
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I was given just over a yard of this fabric. I would like to make my
daughter and her DH a wallhanging for their new home that is being built.
Pattern ideas please.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...51370915ctbcJi

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Mary
http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948

find some solids (or reads as solid) in the same colors, use those as blades
of "grandmother's fan" with your fabric as the background. You can set the
fan squares the same way as a log cabin to give more movement.
Roberta in D

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I was given just over a yard of this fabric. I would like to make my
daughter and her DH a wallhanging for their new home that is being built.
Pattern ideas please.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...51370915ctbcJi

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Mary
http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948

Hullo Mary
That is so very pretty.
I looked at it for quite a while thinking!
Then I wondered: could you use it as a whole piece being the background
for a feast of appliqué - water lilies, dragon flies, frogs, all the
lovely little flowers and creatures that appear on a pond?
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I was given just over a yard of this fabric. I would like to make my
daughter and her DH a wallhanging for their new home that is being built.
Pattern ideas please.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...51370915ctbcJi


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Best Regards
pat on the hill

If her home is on the contemporary side, you might try the Bento Box
pattern which works very well with Asian
fabrics. Whatever you make it will be beautiful! You can't miss with
that fabric!

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wrote:

I was given just over a yard of this fabric. I would like to make my
daughter and her DH a wallhanging for their new home that is being built.
Pattern ideas please.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...51370915ctbcJi


Ooooh! Pretty! How about Attic Windows to showcase this lovely fabric?
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Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
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My first impulse is fans. Pull out some of the darker tones, like the
almost burgundy you can see on the edges of some of the leaves, dark
blue, dark green, as well as some of the lighter colors. Try to have
some gold accents, maybe quilt in gold?
Background to match that of the print, or one of the dark tones, and use
the print as borders too. Depends on whether you want it elegant or
more casual.

Pati, in Phx

maryd wrote:

I was given just over a yard of this fabric. I would like to make my
daughter and her DH a wallhanging for their new home that is being built.
Pattern ideas please.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...51370915ctbcJi

Beautiful fabric. I'm thinking attic windows would be nice. There is
also an attic windows variation called "ShadowBox" that might work well:
http://www.piecesbewithyou.com/patte...dow_detail.htm. I've done a
couple of wall hangings with this pattern. It is not as complicated as
it looks. Instructions are very detailed.

Julia in MN
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