Do You Think This Could Be 'Guy' Enough?
 

Hello - I would like to make a quilt for my nephew, and have been looking around for free patterns for a while. I ran across this one on a blog and wanted to see what you thought. He attends USC, so I thought I would stick mostly with Reds and Golds. What do you think?

http://fibermania.blogspot.com/2013/...e-pattern.html

yes. I think so.

edited to say, neat site. So much color!

i definitely think it is masculine enough. looks like a lot of work to me, though, sewing in those narrow stripes.

Yes, I think that if you add some other neutrals s/a black, tan, etc. along with the red and gold, it will make it a little more manly.

I'm having the same problem with some shopping bags that I'm making for my son. If they're to frilly, he won't use them...at least not in public...LOL. I went with some neutral, necktie prints in black, grey, camel, etc. I plan to put bright red handles on them to jazz them up.

~ Cindy

Yes I think it would be a great manly quilt if done in the right colors.

Stacked Stripes????????? Yep, depends on your choice of colors. And primary colors always work

This is good scrap buster!

Oh definitely manly enough. I could see that made with shirting or even brights. put some browns or blacks in it.

Yep! A good fit, I think.

I agree with everyone else, that the colors will make or break it for him. Plaids in your color choices are always masculine, I think.

Yes. The school colors will make it perfect!

Sorry, but I showed that to my hubby and 11 year old son. I asked if that looked manly for a college guy? They shook their heads adamantly and said, "No." Too bright. We have 2 sons also in their 20s. They prefer black, grey, tan, blue, sage green palettes.

I think it will be just fine. The look you get will totally depend on the fabrics and colors you choose, so it could easily be "manly" enough. It looks like a really fun method too!

Looks great....

Please oh please post a picture when done!

Love it! That site is really interesting, thanks for the url.

It all depends on they guy and .... well you know the guy. Follow your instincts.

You bet....and it looks like a fun project also.

Actually, many quilt patterns can be "guy" quilts, it just depends on the colors and fabric. The one you've chosen will definitely work.

I agree with lynnie or JustAbitCrazy about shirting or plaids working well, but even just muted dark colors or woodland type prints would work. Is it a bed quilt or a throw? Flannels would be good as well.

I think it's a great quilt pattern.

That's a pretty quilt, I like bright colors. His quilt won a 2nd place ribbon in my quilt guild's show. Its all pieced on a 1936 Singer 201k treadle and quilted on a long arm machine; its queen size. The blocks are 16" double sawtooth stars, done in mostly Mission Valley woven plaids and stripes; the backgrounds are shirting prints.
This is my son's idea of a manly quilt.
Sharon W.

Can't imagine that your nephew wouldn't love it! I know I do! Thanks for posting that blog. I will be going back to read that again and again. It's a colorful site for getting rid of the winter doldrums.

Absolutely what a great quilt. Sure hope you post your version when your done.

They will wrap and wear their quilts (cape-like) around the house, watching football, sitting at the computer, or just putzing around the house. We even had one lady said that her husband drives down to the local coffee shop with the quilt around him (I can only imagine that it is drive-through).

While muted colors seem to be the go-to when we select for men, I do keep in mind that Ricky Timms comes up with some beautifully bright colors. Now, I don't know if he struts around with quilts wrapped around his shoulders, but it does remind me that a little pop of color is good for the guys, too. Plus, we all like soft things, right? So, why not add minky to the back of these quilts (afterall -- they are likely not typically heirloom quilts).

I think this design is perfect for a guy, and as he is at USC, I would make sure to get some golds that really pop! Thank you for sharing this design !

My boys love their quilts. I have made them both a few of them (Red Sox, dog prints, Cat in the Hat and a few others). You would may be surprise to hear what they would like. My youngest 27 and in the USCG asked for the Cat in the Hat quilt not for the bed but more for the couch, but did ask for it to be extra long.

I was laughing at the idea of men wearing quilts as capes, then realised that my ex used to do that with the sofa quilt when he wanted to sit at the computer on a weekend morning and couldn't be bothered to get dressed. The quilt was 60" square and the man was a slim 5'10, if that helps!

It's a lovely quilt which could appeal to anyone of any age and any gender. Men are as individual as women are, and have different tastes in colours. The colouring of that particular quilt would appeal to someone who likes red, and who likes bright colours. Find out which colours he likes, and whether he'd like brights (which it's beautifully suited to) or more muted colours. I really wouldn't use plaids or old-fashioned fabrics, it'd wreck the quilt. This quilt is about luminscence, about getting colours to glow together. It'd be best done with batiks. Some should be lighter and brighter, and some should be darker and more muted, in order to get the glowing effect. You could just as easily make this quilt with blue as the main colour, or green, or purple, or possibly a very dark colour such as shades of dark brown or navy. If you make it darker, just make the other colours a bit darker as well, and you'll find that they stand out more against the dark background. Let's say you use dark blue where this quilt uses red. For the other fabrics, you could pick a combination of red, turquoise, lime green, and marigold (orangey-yellow). Perhaps purple as well. That'd be more muted, but still fun, and certainly wouldn't look girly. Here is a fairly bad photo of a quilt I made for a friend of mine which is more or less those colours, though not quite the look I'm envisaging here. http://www.thesewingforum.co.uk/phot...1_DSCF2461.JPG

I think young people, both men and women, are more likely to like this kind of quilt and less likely to like the very traditional sort of American quilt that's often made by older women. I'd never make an old-fashioned sort of quilt (I'm 36), and I don't use old-fashioned fabrics either. I can't stand florals, for instance. So I always find it odd when people talk about how hard it is to make quilts for men, because I don't gender any of my quilts and they'd all do just as well for men or women, boys or girls. The baby quilts are usually brighter and often feature a fun animal motif, although that said, I just made an elephant wall hanging for a pair of friends of mine which is quite similar to an elephant baby quilt I'm working on now.

Most quilt patterns are masculine enough depending on the colors you use. I would not use a flowery patern either in pattern or fabric . I saw a disappearing nine patch in browns and rust and beiges that was great for a man