Fruit & Veggie fabrics - canning jar quilts?
05-09-2011, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by nonymac
What is a canning jar quilt? My sister cans so that would be a good project to do for her.
I would stick to the ones that might be canned. Like the idea of baskets for the potatoes and onions, Numa! :-)
05-09-2011, 12:08 PM
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My swap is currently doing an I-spy a picnic swap. Basically anything edible but I do plan on making a 'canning jar' quilt with all things canned and the left over fabrics will be put in a ispy quilt. So I guess I'm using all. But mt absolute favorites are the munchies fabs..
05-09-2011, 01:08 PM
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I have the fabric. First I did just blocks because I wanted to get working with it. But I plan to do a jar quilt, as soon as I find appropriate fabric for the lids - I'm trying to be too literal with that. But I may 'freelance' a little with what goes in the jars, if the colors need it.
05-09-2011, 02:19 PM
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I bought fruit and veggy FQ but have not used them. I will use them for whatever I want including jars and I spy quilts. Since I have a FQ of each I will have plenty to do both. If I feel like it I will can lettuce and bananas along with tomatoes and candies. Oh also I like the idea, as mentioned in a previous post, of adding baskets to the canning quilt to display other vegetables.
05-09-2011, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
Those of you who have purchased fruit and vegetable fabrics (such as RJR's Farmer's Market)... did you use them for I-Spy quilts, or canning jar quilts?
And if you used them in canning jar quilts, were you literal enough in your interpretation to only use fruits and veggies that actually would be canned (which rules out lettuce and bananas) or did you just pick whatever was pretty and colorful? How many jars did you wind up with?
And if you used them in canning jar quilts, were you literal enough in your interpretation to only use fruits and veggies that actually would be canned (which rules out lettuce and bananas) or did you just pick whatever was pretty and colorful? How many jars did you wind up with?
05-09-2011, 03:02 PM
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It's your quilt. Put in whatever you want. I have made 2 jar quilts and put in oranges and cucumbers. My sister's quilt happens to have only things that you put in jars, but it includes nails and screws and chocolates as well, since she has those in jars as well.
05-09-2011, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by wolfkitty
I have the fabric. First I did just blocks because I wanted to get working with it. But I plan to do a jar quilt, as soon as I find appropriate fabric for the lids - I'm trying to be too literal with that. But I may 'freelance' a little with what goes in the jars, if the colors need it.
05-09-2011, 06:12 PM
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05-09-2011, 06:14 PM
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I used some that my friend actually grows, for patches in a garden-themed quilt for him.
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