Just Jan

I have a friend at work that wants to surprise his wife with a lap quilt for Xmas. He saw my office wall quilt that I made using the Eagle panel (from the Quilts of Valor series.) I added a keyboard border of matching fabrics and then a second border that reads as a solid that matches the brown of the Eagle. He asked if I can make something along those lines but put Pres. Obama in it and use ethnic prints.
I looked online and I saw Obama panels and fat quarters, but all are in patriotic colorways. Are there ethnic prints that could match? The AfricanAm. prints I have seen have a lot of gold and greens in them. Has anyone made or seen anything like this? I would love any suggestions and pix anyone can offer. Thanks in advance. Jan

butterflywing

google or bing obama bandanas. when i looked for obama fabric i only saw that same panel that pops up everywhere, as well as fleece. blech!


http://www.thestreet.com/gallery/ms-.../8/photo-.html


http://www.thisnext.com/item/D72F515...-Obama-Bandana

i bought 5 when he was elected, in 5 different colors. they were $8 each. they're probably cheaper now. LOL!!

i'm trying to plan a quilt around them. it's on my bucket list.


nope. same price. here:

http://www.designsponge.com/2009/02/presidents-day.html

Greenheron

Remember Hawaiian quilting, too, could be incorporated.

butterflywing

ROFL!

Just Jan

http://www.4my3boyz.com/category/patriotic_fabric/ Here is where I saw the fat quarters I mentioned. I don't see how these could be used with anything but patriotic prints, but maybe?

iowabelle

Or, remember President Obama's mother collected and studied batiks. And didn't he live in Indonesia?

Just Jan

[ when i looked for obama fabric i only saw that same panel that pops up everywhere, as well as fleece. blech!]


Ditto... uggggllly! Thats the first I had seen the fleece! ;o(

Just Jan

Or, remember President Obama's mother collected and studied batiks. And didn't he live in Indonesia?]

Hmmm interesting food for thought!
I also tried to find a MLK panel and thought perhaps the two together would be inspirational, but I didn't find any!

fabric_fancy

this fabric would work well with the brown bandana panel

http://www.overrainbow.com/cgi-bin/S...browngeometric

and this one with the brown panel

http://www.annsfabricsandcrafts.com/...pid=1#11296131



this one would work with any panel

http://www.overrainbow.com/cgi-bin/S...16-blackstripe


these two would go with the panels too

http://www.bighornquilts.com/cgi-bin...0&pid=1#39-130

http://www.bighornquilts.com/cgi-bin...es=0&lastmenu=


hope that helps

MadQuilter

You didn't say if you wanted to do it or not. You can always claim to be a Republican. lol

Good luck finding what you need.