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This thread is giving me Grandma baby rabies. Both sides, the whole family, is at the stage in life where the kids are grown into young adults, but there are no marriages or grandbabies yet. Admittedly, this idea would be just awesom for a little kid. Oh well. I've got one in the navy who says he's never getting married (and still thinks that's the way to raise kids), my daughter said she'll never have kids, I guess my oldest son has very heavy shoulders carrying all the responsibility!
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Thats is some bed bugs you could live with !!!!!!
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I love the idea can't wait to see pictures.
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Originally Posted by RugosaB
I have no photos, because I haven't even started it yet, and admittedly I'm probably still feeling the effects of the Heywood Banks (comedian) show we saw last night, but sometimes I just sit and think about quilts. Mostly themes, and this great idea came to me. I have, okay, this is a very embarrassing number, 76 different bug fabrics. It started as what I needed for a jar quilt and expanded into having them for who knows what. Last night it came to me to use them to make a quilt, to be used on a bed, and call it:
the BED BUG QUILT! I've been hearing on the news about the bed bug problem in this country, and thought, wouldn't that make a wonderful Christmas gift? Okay, I'll stop now, and bask in the sunshine of my creative brilliance alone (if this was someone's idea before, I DIDN'T copy it, this was a thought that my brain thought was original, I guess that person is brilliant too!) Anyone want to toss out patterns that would work? www.cutebugfabric.com has lots of wonderful fabric |
I'm making a bug quilt now using pinwheels with an alternating plain block. The pinwheels and plain blocks are about 8" across. The quilting is just stippling inside the quilt and meander in the border.
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There's a bug fabric website. You can probably find it with a search.
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I love the idea. I have a couple quilts that have bugs in them. (the fabric ofcourse) and I keep seeing lots and lots of fabrics with bugs that I would just love to buy. I think they are darling.
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I don't know how to get the pictures back and I don't have them on my computer at work, but if you go up to the search feature and put in Jar Quilt or grammao there are pictures of the bug jar quilt i made for my granddaughter. There wasn't a pattern; just tried to make it look like jars on shelves. Anyway, just another idea for you to ponder. Good luck with your project!
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I've seen one of the jar quilts with bug fabrics as the jars, it was really neat. It was for a little boys 7th. birthday and he just went bonkers when he received it. He is now 12 and still has it on his bed. So the bug quilt was a great success.
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This is a great theme. Wish I had the pictures of the one my sister made for her grandson. He selected all the bugs and she printed them out then transfered them to a light blue background to color and embrodiary. His were spiders, worms, tarantula's. She then took the pattern for the bug jar and made the blocks into jars resembling big gallon jugs and the sashed it with green, oranges and brown. Her backing was bright red, green, orange and blue frogs on a black background. We all had fun working on the quilt and of course I got to quilt it which was lots of fun. When I get a chance I will try to figure out how to get a picture of it and post it. I like the snowball or star idea. Have fun and keep working at it.
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I don't normally laugh out loud but I'm splitting my sides over your quilt theme.... too funny
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Originally Posted by RugosaB
I have no photos, because I haven't even started it yet, and admittedly I'm probably still feeling the effects of the Heywood Banks (comedian) show we saw last night, but sometimes I just sit and think about quilts. Mostly themes, and this great idea came to me. I have, okay, this is a very embarrassing number, 76 different bug fabrics. It started as what I needed for a jar quilt and expanded into having them for who knows what. Last night it came to me to use them to make a quilt, to be used on a bed, and call it:
the BED BUG QUILT! I've been hearing on the news about the bed bug problem in this country, and thought, wouldn't that make a wonderful Christmas gift? Okay, I'll stop now, and bask in the sunshine of my creative brilliance alone (if this was someone's idea before, I DIDN'T copy it, this was a thought that my brain thought was original, I guess that person is brilliant too!) Anyone want to toss out patterns that would work? I Spy! If you have a lot of variety, make smaller ones for little toddlers...that'll keep them busy for maybe ... ohh..30 seconds? ;-) |
LOVE the idea!
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great idea and I think the snowball pattern would look great of course it will depend on how the patterns on the fabric are you may even be able to do star type blocks with a bug on each point or a kaleidoscope type block as well. I would play with the different fabrics you have and see which patterns will give it the most interesting look. There are just to many possibilities to mention.
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For a pattern, I'd suggest the twister pattern, using the plexiglass template.
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Originally Posted by Quiltforme
Not sure if this was suggested but use the jar block for bugs in a jar! Boys love to collect bugs in jars right? I am going to start collecting bug fabric also!!
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why not keep with the jar theme, i kinda like that one
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I think you are very creative and this is a wonderful idea.
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Interesting
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I have a pretty good collection of bugs for a jars wall quilt too.
But if I were making a whole bed quilt, I'd do an Attic Window. First because I love almost anything in an Attic Window, and second, can't you just see bugs crawling all over an old attic window. On the outside, of course! 8-) |
Can't wait to see your Bed Bugs, quilt that is.
Love the name. |
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