Farmfresh City Homesteader - the sound of falling oaks.
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I've seen a really cute alphabet one. A had alligators. B had birds. C had ... don't remember.Farmfresh said:
There is also the "i spy" quilt. Fit in as many things as you can and you play i spy on the quilt. So she had a block with trucks, lots of animal ones, flowers, as many different objects as she could pack in.
Maybe you could applique teddy bears on to a nice background?
I'm doing an asian fan quilt. Appliqued fans
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possibility?
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I love that!
If you can get some scraps and do it in sort of a one patch pattern then it would be really cute. If you do a solid color (like black or white) for every other square it will really make the patterned ones pop. You can usually get a pack of precut squares with all different children's patterned stuff on it. If you have lots of scraps then you can do it yourself. If you google "I spy quilts, pictures" then you can see all kinds of stuff, really neat ones people have done. I would love to do some of those to sell in the fall. There's even some that have been done to do a matching game thing with envelopes....pretty cool.
The only thing about different textures is gonna be getting things uniform without puckering when you switch from one type of fabric to another that is drastically different....like if you threw in a piece of silk next to chenille. The other thing is getting a seamless transition without puckering or stretching/distortion with some of the fabrics. I like the idea of doing maybe a solid chenille backing with a patterned front or do a mixture of denim/chenille and maybe a raggedy edged quilt. Denim would be a good backing for one that is going to be a play mat, not a big deal if it gets spread out on the ground.
On the job front, could you put out the word that you would tutor? That way you could work at your home and still make a little money on the side and you have the connections.
If you can get some scraps and do it in sort of a one patch pattern then it would be really cute. If you do a solid color (like black or white) for every other square it will really make the patterned ones pop. You can usually get a pack of precut squares with all different children's patterned stuff on it. If you have lots of scraps then you can do it yourself. If you google "I spy quilts, pictures" then you can see all kinds of stuff, really neat ones people have done. I would love to do some of those to sell in the fall. There's even some that have been done to do a matching game thing with envelopes....pretty cool.
The only thing about different textures is gonna be getting things uniform without puckering when you switch from one type of fabric to another that is drastically different....like if you threw in a piece of silk next to chenille. The other thing is getting a seamless transition without puckering or stretching/distortion with some of the fabrics. I like the idea of doing maybe a solid chenille backing with a patterned front or do a mixture of denim/chenille and maybe a raggedy edged quilt. Denim would be a good backing for one that is going to be a play mat, not a big deal if it gets spread out on the ground.
On the job front, could you put out the word that you would tutor? That way you could work at your home and still make a little money on the side and you have the connections.
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I am
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cat's ear! 
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Why not?
