Need all quilters help on this one... handprints
12-27-2015, 10:32 AM
#21
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Victorville, Ca.
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How about using the hand prints as "leaves" on a tree? You could embroider the names on each handprint. OR how about a heart using the hand prints. Good luck. Hope you will post a picture when completed.
12-27-2015, 01:39 PM
#23
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Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
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Have a look at some of these. I like the one where the hands make a heart shape.
https://www.google.com/search?safe=a...09.3nWmtgCtcuw
Jan in VA
https://www.google.com/search?safe=a...09.3nWmtgCtcuw
Jan in VA
12-27-2015, 06:16 PM
#24
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Location: American Canyon, CA
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Many years ago my mentor who was almost 35 years older than me showed me a quilt she had made using handprints. Each member of her huge extended family had given her an outline of their hand remembering that the hand had to be drawn but another so that the dominant hand was the drawing. She then transferred their hand outline on to muslin which was then appliqued on to a printed calico fabric. Each hand included the name and date of birth of the individual. They also included things such as wedding rings or other rings. One member had lost a finger due to an accident and that hand print reflected the loss. Baby hands were also included. She treasured this quilt and when she became ill knowing her time on this earth was coming to an end she told her family that she wanted it to be wrapped around her before she was cremated.
When she told me this story at first I was so amazed at all the family members included in the quilt and that they were willing to participate. Then I thought how could her family bear to part with it when the time came. But it was Nellie's wish to have the love of her family comforting her until the end and beyond. She was very well loved by everyone who knew her.
I think any way you decide to put your hand quilt together will be cherished by all who receive the love you put into it.
When she told me this story at first I was so amazed at all the family members included in the quilt and that they were willing to participate. Then I thought how could her family bear to part with it when the time came. But it was Nellie's wish to have the love of her family comforting her until the end and beyond. She was very well loved by everyone who knew her.
I think any way you decide to put your hand quilt together will be cherished by all who receive the love you put into it.
12-27-2015, 09:34 PM
#25
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 136
I remember a friend whose grown daughter asked for a quilt full of her mother's handprints. She said she wanted to wrap herself in her mother's arms, even when she was far away. Her mother outlined her hand and made blocks, where her hand was the center of each and filled up most of the block. She did each handprint in different fabric, I think. It was a bed sized quilt. Not sure if any of this info can help, but I know her mother really loved making the quilt and felt so loved that it had been requested. Her daughter also loved it.
It is just a beautiful idea.
Dina
It is just a beautiful idea.
Dina
Here are some more poems. You will have to go to view and use enlarge to about 400 to be able to read them. good luck.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...verlay&first=1
Last edited by Davena; 12-27-2015 at 09:38 PM.
12-27-2015, 09:39 PM
#26
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 136
I remember a friend whose grown daughter asked for a quilt full of her mother's handprints. She said she wanted to wrap herself in her mother's arms, even when she was far away. Her mother outlined her hand and made blocks, where her hand was the center of each and filled up most of the block. She did each handprint in different fabric, I think. It was a bed sized quilt. Not sure if any of this info can help, but I know her mother really loved making the quilt and felt so loved that it had been requested. Her daughter also loved it.
It is just a beautiful idea.
Dina
It is just a beautiful idea.
Dina
Here are some poems. You will have to go to view and use enlarge to about 400 to be able to read them. good luck.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...verlay&first=1
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