My grand daughter just traveled across country with a friend. I would love to make her a wall hanging that she could some how acknowledge her travels over the future years. Any suggestions as to how to do it.
If I embroidered I would make badges for each state and then she could just sew then on as she goes.
I would love some help. Thanks :-D

I would gladly send you a badge from Iowa if that would help.

How about doing a large center block of the US and coloring in all the states she went through. You could easily print a page, enlarge it to size, and color it in. I would think she could go back and color in more states in the future as long as she remembered to heat set them.

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You could then do some border blocks representing things she saw along the way.

A map of the US would be wonderful and she could collect lapel or hat pins where she goes. I have a collection and always thought it would be nice to display all these pins somehow.

those are great ideas

What a cute idea you have going on and if you decide to go with a badge....Will send you one from Minnesota

Perhaps you could print pictures representative of the places or states where she's traveled onto fabric and then sew those onto a 'map' outlined quilt as others have suggested.