HI all, I'm usually just a looker on here but I need some ideas for a friend of mine who has been asked to make a wall hanging for a Agriculture show that will be auctioned off at the end of the show. She needs ideas. This is such a creative group I'm hoping you can help me. :lol: :lol:

A red work or blue or better yet a Green work with the flowers around your area.

When it comes to specific themes like that I always thing of embroidered blocks. I have done a couple of John Deere tractor themed quilts and are always very popular and make a lot of $$ out of them in raffles and auctions.

If you or her have an embroidery machine just get a few motifs and use them for the center of the blocks. They get so much attention that it doesn't require much around, just something simple with green and yellow.

Maria

Quiltmaker had some paper pieced veggies:
http://www.quiltmaker.com/articles/pickapeck
http://www.quiltmaker.com/patterns/details.html?idx=403

fat cat patterns has a really cute tractor, chicken, cow, pig, sheep
http://www.fatcatpatterns.com/

good luck

I have seen fabric with fruits and veggies on it. Maybe a jar quilt using those.

http://cowpaddockspatchwork.typepad....-stitches.html


did you see this on another post? it seems to fit your request

THANKS EVERYONE for your ideas, I'm passing them on! :D

If you want to go the traditional route, Corn and Beans is a great block to use.
Single block
http://i89.servimg.com/u/f89/13/49/5...h/cornbe10.jpg
Repeated blocks
http://i89.servimg.com/u/f89/13/49/5...h/corn_a10.jpg

Our guild challenge this year is to make a quilt / wall hanging with the theme "Our Farming Community," so I'm making a Log Cabin quilt with a Straight Furrows setting. I guess you'd have to know about quilting to know the connection to agriculture, though!

Jan

I am a north dakota farm girl so I do know that. In fact that is one of the suggestions I gave her. :D I'm going to get a pic of it when it is done to show you all.