Originally Posted by ljorange
My problem is that a photo, name and date of birth would be fine but then I'd want to put country, occupation, military, death, stories, etc., etc., etc. It would end up being the biggest quilt ever made. Or if I made one for each generation or each branch I'd have to make them for the next 50 years and I think I may run out of time...it wears me out thinking about it! Just thinking about genealogy turns into a maze of thoughts that never ends.
Hmmm, perhaps a leaf with a photo on it that you could lift up and have all the other information behind it...could be several layers of information which would make for a cool 3-dimensional element on the quilt.