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I LOVE your fabric. I have a pig collection and would like to know where I could purchase this fabric.

The warm wishes pattern is the one I would vote for.

Good luck in your sewing and give that man a hug from another pig lover.

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Originally Posted by caedmyn

I was going to go with the warm wishes blocks, but I'm thinking I may go with the Rectangles behind Bars after all...I laid out some of the fabric and I do think it would look like the pigs were in a pen, which is probably the idea I had when I originally saw the pattern and bought the pig fabric, but that was a year ago and I'd forgotten.

I was looking at the wolf one and thought you should be able to do it. When you layed out the fabric, did you lay down scrap strips of about the size of the bars to see how it would be? That should give you a real good idea of how the pig fabric would work. Can't wait to see what you do.

I really have no answer to your question, but I LOVE the fabric!

I think Attic Windows would work great!!

what is fussy cutting?

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Originally Posted by Lisanne

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Originally Posted by MadQuilter

Sure, nothing says Christmas like angelic piggies. Love those porkers.

Thinking of Christmas dinner, were you?

LOL! Lisanne!

caedmyn, can't wait to see what you cook up with these little fellas :wink:

fussy cutting is when you have a particular picture or design and you want to use as the middle of your block.
see defintion for fussy cutting
http://www.how-to-quilt.com/articles...terms.shtml#ef

Oink oink! lol

I think the attic window is a fabulous idea.....and no, I was actually not thinking of christmas dinner - - - but I am now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by GladGrams

I got the fabric from Walmart...they still have it, or at least the one here still carries it.

How about a Irish chain using the pig fabric in between nine patches?

Just a suggestion.
Anne in AZ

I just saw your piggy fabric, made me smile, used to hand raise orphan pigs when we lived in the country. A great way to show off a large section of print would be to make "Flip A Coin", a pattern I saw on a Fons and Porter show. You cut the focus fabric anywhere from 7 to 10 inch wide strips and as long as you want the quilt, say you choose 9 inch wide strip of focus fabric and 80" long to leave room for a border, on either side of that strip goes a striped coordinating fabric, 3 inches wide, on either side of the striped fabric go a strip of the "coins", solids and/or prints that catch a color in the focus fabric or could be scrappy. They cut them about 2 inches long and 3 1/2 wide. Just pick the sizes that suit you. You just repeat this unit til your quilt is as wide as needed. You could use piggies again in the border.
Hope I have explained it well enough to make you "see" it. Looks really simple, I plan to use a gorgeous large floral I discovered to make this quilt, would work for any fabric you want to be the main event!

OK, this is really late but....what about the bars idea, but instead of having a top and bottom cross piece with the vertical bars in the middle (which sort of looks like a jail cell), use your bars to make the outline of a pig pen enclosure, with horizontal bars stitched over the pigs to hold down the fabric, the pigs over the top could be individually stitched. This descrption is not working, I wish I could just draw it for you. The "pigs over the top" would be the pigs in the enclosure that you view over the top rail of the pen. Does that make sense? You could add a barn in the background, or some 'state-fair' idea.