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just curious??? (not OT)
Is there a pattern called "Anniversary"?
I know about wedding ring, double wedding ring, contrary wife and ornery husband, and I just saw the 'essence of yesteryear' in my new Quiltmaker magazine, in honor of their 25th anniversary. I'm asking because the women's club at our church has held a craft show with a raffle for the last 24 years. Next year will be the 25th. We want the quilt - the grand prize in the raffle - to reflect that. Because it is for a church anniversary and not a couple... I don't want to use the wedding ring design. We are hoping to get participation from the quilters of the parish, so it needs to be beginner or intermediate, not a challenging design. As the incoming president, I have been put in charge of finding the pattern. Tomorrow, I will be checking out the scrapbook from the church library to look back over the quilt designs we have already used. Maybe that will inspire an idea. I really liked the one in Quiltmaker but I would like to have some other choices for the ladies on Tuesday. And you are the most creative bunch of ladies that I know and you always love to help me!! TIA for any ideas. -- Tricia in Texas http://photos.yahoo.com/momiixii |
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I can't help with a quilt pattern called "Anniversary" and I
don't have the current Quiltmaker yet, but here are a few simple ideas we have used successfully. http://tinyurl.com/yalmzw This was made for a 40th birthday. J used 20 gold and 20 burgundy fabrics from my stash, and there are 40 gold diamonds in the borders. The quilting was stipple quilted in only the yellow areas of the quilt so there is an echo of the design on the back. (The cat is NOT mine, his name is Magpie!) The pattern was simple (this was J's second quilt) and the end result was stunning. I don't have a pic of another quilt made for a 25th anniversary of a local community group. I started with a 6 X 6 grid of blocks, and just made the centre 3X3 blocks one single block (like a medallion quilt). A more experienced quilter made the centre block as a picture of the building they meet in, and the surrounding 25 blocks were made by 25 different people, each representing a year of service. Back then (12 years ago) we could not do photos on fabric very well) so the blocks were pieced or appliqued. The outer border was a zig-zag pattern of light and dark fabrics (two fabrics for the past 25 and next 25 years) and I sized it to have 25 points on each side and turn the corners neatly. Designing an anniversary quilt should not be difficult. If you want to involve people who are not experienced quilters you can use a pattern like J's, but many can feel involved and that they have contributed. Ask 25 people to find strips of fabric to a specific colour scheme. It could be a significant colour to the group, or silver for 25 years. If you have a core group of quilters you can use them to make major features of the quilt (such as the centre medallion) and ask other less skilled sewers to make HSTs or Fence Rails for borders or blocks. Ask them to make a slightly bigger block than is needed if they are NOT quilters as that gives scope for trimming the HSTs to fit exactly and avoids hurt feelings when blocks cannot be used because seams are inaccurate. As printing photos on fabric is now relatively easy you could even do that and ask many sewers to add borders to each picture. However if you want to raffle the quilt and raise funds you might be better to avoid pictures in the quilt altogether. Perhaps save the pictures for a quilt to be kept by the church. Is this quilt primarily to mark the anniversary or to raise funds? Good luck with your quilt, and don't forget to include the story of the quilt and its design on the label to keep the significance of the quilt alive for future generations. I will watch with interest to see what others come up with as there are always so many good ideas offered. -- Cheryl & the Cats in OZ o o o o o o ( Y ) ( Y ) ( Y ) Enness Boofhead Donut http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "A&T" wrote in message nk.net... : Is there a pattern called "Anniversary"? : : I know about wedding ring, double wedding ring, contrary wife and ornery : husband, and I just saw the 'essence of yesteryear' in my new Quiltmaker : magazine, in honor of their 25th anniversary. : : I'm asking because the women's club at our church has held a craft show with : a raffle for the last 24 years. Next year will be the 25th. We want the : quilt - the grand prize in the raffle - to reflect that. Because it is for : a church anniversary and not a couple... I don't want to use the wedding : ring design. We are hoping to get participation from the quilters of the : parish, so it needs to be beginner or intermediate, not a challenging : design. : : As the incoming president, I have been put in charge of finding the pattern. : Tomorrow, I will be checking out the scrapbook from the church library to : look back over the quilt designs we have already used. Maybe that will : inspire an idea. : : I really liked the one in Quiltmaker but I would like to have some other : choices for the ladies on Tuesday. And you are the most creative bunch of : ladies that I know and you always love to help me!! : : TIA for any ideas. : : -- : Tricia in Texas : http://photos.yahoo.com/momiixii : : : : |
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just curious??? (not OT)
Found all these on quilters cache.... maybe they will spark some ideas.
not anniversary but... http://www.quilterscache.com/S/SilverLaneBlock.html Silver Lane http://www.quilterscache.com/T/TwentyFivePatchStar.html twenty five patch star http://www.quilterscache.com/T/Twent...tionBlock.html variation on the same a quick search on 25th anniversary says that in addition to silver, Iris is the flower of choice... (never heard that b4 but sounds good to me!) http://www.quilterscache.com/I/IrisesandLionsBlock.html http://www.quilterscache.com/C/ChurchWindowsBlock.html church windows -- you could make a 5x5 quilt of these? you could make 25 different crosses.... or 5 crosses 5 times or these are called Memory blocks.... http://www.quilterscache.com/M/MemoryABlock.html http://www.quilterscache.com/M/MemoryBlockBlock.html http://www.quilterscache.com/M/MemoryWreathBlock.html hope that helps~ Kellie "A&T" wrote in message nk.net... Is there a pattern called "Anniversary"? I know about wedding ring, double wedding ring, contrary wife and ornery husband, and I just saw the 'essence of yesteryear' in my new Quiltmaker magazine, in honor of their 25th anniversary. I'm asking because the women's club at our church has held a craft show with a raffle for the last 24 years. Next year will be the 25th. We want the quilt - the grand prize in the raffle - to reflect that. Because it is for a church anniversary and not a couple... I don't want to use the wedding ring design. We are hoping to get participation from the quilters of the parish, so it needs to be beginner or intermediate, not a challenging design. As the incoming president, I have been put in charge of finding the pattern. Tomorrow, I will be checking out the scrapbook from the church library to look back over the quilt designs we have already used. Maybe that will inspire an idea. I really liked the one in Quiltmaker but I would like to have some other choices for the ladies on Tuesday. And you are the most creative bunch of ladies that I know and you always love to help me!! TIA for any ideas. -- Tricia in Texas http://photos.yahoo.com/momiixii |
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just curious??? (not OT)
Not really there, but...
There is a pattern of 2 blocks called Tennessee Waltz, you could do that one but call it Anniversary Waltz. (Eleanor Burns has a book on the TW) Pati, in Phx A&T wrote: Is there a pattern called "Anniversary"? I know about wedding ring, double wedding ring, contrary wife and ornery husband, and I just saw the 'essence of yesteryear' in my new Quiltmaker magazine, in honor of their 25th anniversary. I'm asking because the women's club at our church has held a craft show with a raffle for the last 24 years. Next year will be the 25th. We want the quilt - the grand prize in the raffle - to reflect that. Because it is for a church anniversary and not a couple... I don't want to use the wedding ring design. We are hoping to get participation from the quilters of the parish, so it needs to be beginner or intermediate, not a challenging design. As the incoming president, I have been put in charge of finding the pattern. Tomorrow, I will be checking out the scrapbook from the church library to look back over the quilt designs we have already used. Maybe that will inspire an idea. I really liked the one in Quiltmaker but I would like to have some other choices for the ladies on Tuesday. And you are the most creative bunch of ladies that I know and you always love to help me!! TIA for any ideas. |
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Thanks so much...I've printed the blocks and the ideas you both had for our
meeting tomorrow. The quilt really is more of a fundraiser, so I had already decided photos were out. Everybody would love to 'see' a quilt like that, but not many people would buy a raffle ticket to 'win' a quilt like that. Anyway, thanks again. -- Tricia http://photos.yahoo.com/momiixii "A&T" wrote in message nk.net... Is there a pattern called "Anniversary"? I know about wedding ring, double wedding ring, contrary wife and ornery husband, and I just saw the 'essence of yesteryear' in my new Quiltmaker magazine, in honor of their 25th anniversary. I'm asking because the women's club at our church has held a craft show with a raffle for the last 24 years. Next year will be the 25th. We want the quilt - the grand prize in the raffle - to reflect that. Because it is for a church anniversary and not a couple... I don't want to use the wedding ring design. We are hoping to get participation from the quilters of the parish, so it needs to be beginner or intermediate, not a challenging design. As the incoming president, I have been put in charge of finding the pattern. Tomorrow, I will be checking out the scrapbook from the church library to look back over the quilt designs we have already used. Maybe that will inspire an idea. I really liked the one in Quiltmaker but I would like to have some other choices for the ladies on Tuesday. And you are the most creative bunch of ladies that I know and you always love to help me!! TIA for any ideas. -- Tricia in Texas http://photos.yahoo.com/momiixii |
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