Thread: Help!! I need Pattern Idea for these fabric (One Quilt)

What size do you have in mind? Wall quilt, throw, bed size?

Do you know anything about him other than he passed the bar?

I think what I would do would be to use one of those lovely book fabrics as a backing and pull textured solid colors from that fabric to make a very classic, geometric and simple pieced front. Maybe something like a modern take on Flying Geese, or large half square triangles in a medallion arrangement.

To my eye, those fabrics, while very nice, are just graphically too much when put together, and to cut and piece them would not add to their strength-- which is in whole cloth state.

Originally Posted by RST

What size do you have in mind? Wall quilt, throw, bed size?

Do you know anything about him other than he passed the bar?

I think what I would do would be to use one of those lovely book fabrics as a backing and pull textured solid colors from that fabric to make a very classic, geometric and simple pieced front. Maybe something like a modern take on Flying Geese, or large half square triangles in a medallion arrangement.

To my eye, those fabrics, while very nice, are just graphically too much when put together, and to cut and piece them would not add to their strength-- which is in whole cloth state.

I think RST is right, keep the book fabric as one massive piece and extract design elements from it.

With those fabrics I would use one of the BQ patterns from Maple Island Quilts. Here's a link to their BQ gallery:

http://mapleislandquilts.com/gallery/bq-nation

I also thought of the BQ pattern by Maple Island! It is great for a focus fabric and you could use maroon and black for the background. Love the law fabric, where did you get it??

I too thought of the BQ patterns. My friend just put the binding on a BQ pattern and it is beautiful. It is big blocks (which would be great for your fabric) and sashing which you could pull one of the colors out of the fabric you have. Good Luck and share with us your finished project.

I would do something different. I would make an Irish chain front with blue & red & use the law book fabric for the back. I'd save the bottom fabric for someting else.

What's really funny is I'm a paralegal & nobody uses law books anymore. Everything is online. When my old office moved we tried to give our law library away and couldn't even get anyone to take it. We threw all the books away. Sad, huh?

Originally Posted by Mdegenhart

I would do something different. I would make an Irish chain front with blue & red & use the law book fabric for the back. I'd save the bottom fabric for someting else.

What's really funny is I'm a paralegal & nobody uses law books anymore. Everything is online. When my old office moved we tried to give our law library away and couldn't even get anyone to take it. We threw all the books away. Sad, huh?

That is sad. I was a legal secretary and I loved the law library....merely a room lined with shelves of books. We were always behind in inserting the supplements from the publisher, but when we did have time to catch up, I loved sitting at the library table surrounded by all those tomes, inserting the new and discarding the old supplements. Online has to be easier but I bet many old school lawyers still miss holding those great books in their hands, reading up on case law.

I would use the fabric as a panel and add some matching borders to make a throw