rosiewell

Hi all, one of our secretary is retiring at the end of the school year, the staff wants to make a signature block quilt for her, she loves to read and collect books. The staff would like a block with a book appliqued on it where they would write their congrats. I cannot find any pattern, all I get from my research is "quilting books" no a single book pattern. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thank you

Onebyone

One block per writer or one big book for all? Here are line drawings of all kinds of book that you can enlarge for applique.

http://www.clker.com/clipart-9706.html

ManiacQuilter2

The only fabric I could find were old library book. It might be something you could use.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw...s&_sacat=28162

You could make some sort of a shelf furniture and maybe make the books have the signatures of people like they were the authors of a book. Good Luck.

Craftnut

How about this one with the staff signing the spines like titles and authors -
http://www.modabakeshop.com/2013/03/...-me-quilt.html

and here is one of an open book
http://www.athomebythebaye.com/2012/...r-virtual.html

pocoellie

You can use just about any block that has a center square or rectangle, but here's a few at Quilter's Cache: http://www.quilterscache.com/Alphabe...stPageS_Z.html

Sorry I missed the part about you wanting to have something to do with books.

auntpiggylpn

I made a book shelf memorial Wallhanging Instead of using book titles, you could have people sign the spines of the books

http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...g-t221363.html

KLO

There is a paper pieced pattern for these "bookshelf books". My small quilt group did a block exchange using the pattern and all the quilts turned out great. Some of us wrote the names of books on a light colored piece of fabric that was pieced into the spine. We tried to personalize it using the receivers "likes".

Here is one free pattern:
http://www.blockcentral.com/qb-pattern-bookshelf2.shtml

This is the pattern we used called Book Block for the Library Shelf (it's about the 9th pattern down):
http://www.winnowing.com/patterns.html

Hope you find something you like. You should have a lot of fun with this! We sure did.

rosiewell

thanks, I think the open book will work great if I can get enough volunteers to do the blocks.