Rachelcb80

I am going to be making a quilt for my dad this year (hopefully by Father's Day). I've found three fabrics so far that I'm going to use in it and I plan on adding a few more. It's going to be kind of scrappy, in a masculine way. :) He's a car guy and loves his Harleys so I'm putting together some fabrics that go with those interests. One of my fabrics (as you can see in the picture) has a bigger pattern on it that you really need to cut bigger to see and enjoy the random pattern. I don't want to do something as simple as plain squares for my quilt, but I don't want something so complex the pattern takes away from the fabrics. I was thinking just half square triangles all over, or maybe even hourglasses. Anyone care to share some suggestions?

Regarding the fabrics, I plan to add a flame print one (getting some orange color in there) and hopefully something with some blue in it. I have enough black/grey already with the three pictured.

Edit to add: Eek! Sorry for the poor picture quality. I just snapped it real quick with the camera. My settings must be off.

MadQuilter

I would do a square in a square using the large motif as the center point.

patty48

I made my husband an attic window quilt with motorcylces in each window. Flames on the back....he loves it

wesing

The alternating 4-patch like the Downy quilts is a good way to showcase a fabric with a large pattern. We made 2 that way with 4.5" squares and 2.5" 4-patch squares. To provide some variety you should use at least 5 or 6 different fabrics for the 4-patch squares.

Darren

tlrnhi

Yellow Brick Road would work for it. They are big blocks that are put together that would show alot of the fabric detail.

Oklahoma Suzie

great idea.