Help please! tabletop miniature quilt
 

I am looking to make a tabletop miniature quilt for my DIL’s parents who are in the long process to become US citizens. They have spent Christmas with us for the past four years. They are Chinese, so I am trying to find a pattern with a Chinese and American Flag. Google nor Etsy has been any help. Am I going to have to come up with a pattern myself or can anyone help me with this? Thank you so much!

Might be difficult to find such a flag, since they both use the upper left corner. Maybe make both flags joined into one square - you'd need to warp one or both, since they are different dimensions.

The USA flat is 12 units wide x 10 units tall, the China flag is 15 x 10. If you stretch the US flag to match the China flag, they'd look like this:
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How about alternating squares with 5-pointed stars … one square red with yellow star, the other square blue with white star.

Or you could make a tree of life quilt with the star blocks along the border.

Happy brainstorming and happy quilting! Whatever you do, this will make a touching gift.

You're giving me ideas for my new DGS due in December who will be German-American.

You could find pictures of an American flag and one of a Chinese flag and start from there. Maybe by putting the left half of the American flag, tuning the quilt 180° and putting the left side of the Chinese flag to join it. This way you would get the "star" part of each one.

LOL, Liz, we must have been typing at the same time! Lets just call it "great minds".

When my son-in-law from Germany became a U.S. citizen I made him a quilt with the Texas flag on the front & backed it with a fabric that had the U.S. flag all over the back. He LOVES Texas & wanted a Texas front. DD & I designed the front....no picture. :( Lost all my pictures when computer crashed last year.

You might want to look at some of the great quilts with Canada-USA flag combos for inspiration.

If it were me doing it, I would make it two sided, chinese one and usa flag other side.

I wouldn't limit my thinking just to flags. Both countries have symbols too such as a dragon (China) and eagle (US). Isn't what you're really trying to convey is the blending of the two cultures? Your design possibilities could be boundless if you expand beyond flags. Have you considered Asian fabric for part of your design?
My daughter-in-law in Chineese and she and her father did some wonderful painting on fabric for an exhibit of Chineese language symbols and their translated meanings. While it wasn't quilting but rather silk scarves the concept is similar.

After reading this thread I had a conversation with my Chinese daughter-in-law. She is also an artist so we focused the conversation mostly on a cultural and artistic bent. Her response to the flag idea was that they don't necessarily go together from an artistic focus and the Chinese are not nearly as "married" to their flag as Americans so they might not see the symbolism there. They will also receive US flags when they become citizens and when my DIL's father became a citizen the US flag what important to him that he got when he became a citizen.
From our conversation (she is not a quilter) she felt from a Chinese perspective something artistic would be more appreciated and valued. Lanterns which are important to the Chinese culture would be easy to replicate in a quilt pattern. It would be something of a modified snowball block. She also agreed that Asian fabric would be nice. Maybe take some of the American colors of red/white/blue and feature them in Asian fabric. Most Asian fabric also has a metallic element to it which would be good too. Something delicate and beautiful.
Another thought would be flowers. The lotus blossom and chrysanthemum are two important flowers. I've seen both in Asian fabrics.
If you use any Chinese characters be sure to get some native to Chinese language to translate them for you. The two symbols for American translate into "Beautiful Country". You might want to incorporate something like this too.
Hope this helps.

Gosh you have all helped so much with ideas that I didnt even consider and I really like the ideas!!! Thank you! I am sure I can come up with something now that will be much more meaningful!