Our beloved principal is retiring. A co-worker and I would like to make her a quilt, but our skills are pretty primitive. Our school colors are red and white, but a bit of black doesn't hurt. We're considering reds and whites in a turning 12 pattern for the top.
Here's a turning 20 quilt - ours would be a large lap size (right?) (turning 20 uses 20 fat quarters; turning 12 uses 12 of them)
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-95368-1.htm
We'd use a red print backing and add a quilt label in solid red with an embroidered school mascot - the local embroidery store can do that - her name - the year - and "from your Northside Elementary family".
We've found this for the fabric - would buy either 2 or three bundles to have more of the reds and fewer of the whites. (We'd only charge the other teachers for the FQ's we actually used - we're building stash! Our color is a true red - does this look darker - more brown/red?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=320679141372
Would like to get the backing from our local quilt shop - they didn't have what we needed for the top. We're asking a retired teacher to long arm quilt it.
I think this quilt could cost a total of around $200. Any idea at this point how far off we are? The other teachers will chip in to pay for it, but they'll be astounded that it cost that much - that's considering $75 for material and estimating $50 for embroidery and maybe $80 - $100 for the quilting?
If any of this sounds like it will not work, please tell me now! We need to get started on this if we're going to do it.