VickiM

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VickiM

I'm doing beachy...I will look in stash for sky. I have lots of cloud fabrics. Just gotta find one that will go with the colors I've picked out for the beachy theme.

whitepine

This sounds like too much fun to resist. It also sounds like it has already started. Elizabrat, I know you will have many surprises ahead for us. Even thinking about this type of quilt is a whole different way of thinking. What am I trying to show, what symbols are important and why, how in the world can something be expressed in quilting form. I'm thinking that I'll do some paper piecing for sure. It's been a while so I'm looking forward to that. Maybe all batiks on this one. Hmmmm. Many things to think about.

Sunliten, we're watching you.

m-fay

I was just going to stalk this one for a while, BUT...I've stalked long enough and I'm in. sounds EXACTLY like an idea I've had for ages with no idea how to do it. peace and tranquility to me is camping in our arid australian bush with corellas flying overhead, a kangaroo or 2 and some emus,, a camp fire and stew cooking in a camp oven. Can I do all that in this quilt and QAYG sounds a great way to go as well. I'm gunna love this!

Elisabrat

to answer your question on the Aussie scenario you can certainly do that in a row robin format. You should perhaps do a sketch of the scene you want to do (look no one will see it!) and then break it up in four sections. upper sky, lower sky upper scenario, middle ground and finally foreground. then you can do your rows accordingly! a kangaroo! wow your going to have fun doing that! I want mine to be more flowing? but seen so many row robins (hit pinterest up and type in row robin quilt ideas and shoot you will get a zillion then you can narrow it down to even other ideas and its terrific. same with google images type in row robin quilt and you will get so many to peak at you want this one and that one and a row from here and a row from there.. its fun. some of you will want to do just traditional and that is certainly ok! a row of bells and a row of snowmen and a row of snowflakes if that is what you want then do it! no one here to police you! its YOUR dream your vision of peace you pick what you want! tada!

I found a few images to share with you. thought you might like to see somethings to spark your idea bucket and get your juices going! its all about YOU. we all want and love something different. Like me, no crabs on my beach. none to worry about stepping on or jellyfish. OH NO! I am having a peaceful sand no footprints in it. just soft soft sand and a soft sky. soft water lapping the shores not waves. you see my best friend from 3rd grade and I have plans. we are going to this beach when we reach heaven. no noise, but soft water lapping, just us watching it in a lounge chair and that good looking pool boy bringing us drinks when our glass is empty. so I need a sky, a calm clear water, a beach and a couple lounge chairs. I need mai tai glasses and big beach hats to put in a row .. just something that is calm. maybe big flowers.. yup. try to put that image into a quilt. one way or another its going to be there. abstract? maybe. but it will be there. that is my gift to her. we both have a shortened clock life. I want to do this for her and know she will love it and get it. It will be a gift to her daughter when we are gone. She will be told our story also. This is the silly stuff we do to make life more enjoyable what the heck. you only live once! (here at least).

what is your plan and why?

Elisabrat

a more traditional style row robin but great ideas if maybe a garden is your favorite form of peace?

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Elisabrat

to answer your question on row quilts look in member swaps. There have been several row robins where you each do a block and add it on and send it to the next. the trouble with those it seems is some go really smoothly and all are sent back. others go into mystery zones and well stay there. This swap is different as we are each sewing our own rows for our own quilts. upside is you get it all the way you want. not some good some bad its all your call I am not stating that the other way is not fun. just saying that .. it is all yours. no mailing costs and any failure to complete a project is totally your call. somehow that feels good to me.

whitepine

This is so exciting. I've never done a row quilt and have wanted to. I have a lot of ideas and the more pictures I see, the harder it gets to narrow it down. I think mine will be a specific place that I will make for my husband. We built a cabin on Prince of Wales Island in SE Alaska. It was a remote site that could only be accessed by water. All our building materials came in by small boat. We were surrounded by smaller islands, whales, eagles, seals, etc. There will be water, mountains, and trees. Maybe lots of trees. At the beginning, we had no electricity, no running water. Definitely off the grid. Mine will probably be the more traditional row approach because that's what my brain understands.

I would think it would make an easy QAYG because you could quilt in row.

CAS49OR

This looks interesting. I found all these images too https://www.google.com/search?q=Row+...w=1164&bih=832
and think I will just watch this thread for a while and see what you all come up with.

travelinggramma

Brat - I love your idea of having the center four rows making a picture with the top and bottom encasing it. I would like to make my cousin something special. She loves Ocean City MD. Her and her husband requested that when they die, her ashes are to go to the beach, and his to the ocean; so they will connect every time the tide comes in.....her words honest!!
So my middle will be a sky with kites, curvy water, and a beach
A sun will be shining from the top - and a row of flip flops(she LOVES them) for the bottom
Oh - I am really great in making plans - and hopefuly I can pull this off.
Everyone's ideas are so personal. Love the dreams coming together.