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trugger 11-15-2009 04:42 AM

I'm planning a quilt for my cousin's husband.
He said, "can you do a nordic design?"

I have no idea what it is, so I thought I'd come here first.

Anyone know what "nordic" designs are?

ghostrider 11-15-2009 05:27 AM

When I think of Nordic Design, I think of furniture (IKEA, the egg chair) and sweaters (Lopi, Fair Isle). Search Google images for Nordic Patterns and see if any of the knit patterns remind you of quilt blocks. Most are reflective patterns like Bear's Paw, Union Square or Winding Ways. There are a lot of hearts and stars as well. Sounds like a fun project, good luck!

Pinkiris 11-15-2009 05:51 AM

I think I would ask him what "Nordic" means in his eyes. It could be anything from flowery rosemaling designs to trolls to many other things. Ask him for a picture of something "Nordic". An IKEA catalog would be great inspiration!

bearisgray 11-15-2009 06:35 AM


Originally Posted by Pinkiris
I think I would ask him what "Nordic" means in his eyes. It could be anything from flowery rosemaling designs to trolls to many other things. Ask him for a picture of something "Nordic". An IKEA catalog would be great inspiration!

Sounds like a good idea -

Maybe it's Hagar the Horrible?

Shemjo 11-15-2009 10:12 AM

Does he want it white with snowflakes, or elves/gnomes? I think he needs to give a definition of Nordic!

BellaBoo 11-15-2009 10:29 AM

I think of hearty sailing and cold when I think of Nordic. I think the crossed canoes block would be a good quilt pattern done in stark contrasting blues for cold and ocean.

mamabird3 11-15-2009 10:31 AM

For some reason polar bears comes to mind when I hear nordic.

BellaBoo 11-15-2009 10:37 AM

Also Nordic has a lot of Reindeer/Deer type images with trees. If you appliqué, that may be a design to to a row by row quilt. Each row could be a different Nordic design element.

ghostrider 11-15-2009 10:46 AM

You could always contact the members from Norway and Sweden (GladGrams, Sunnyhope, and jette) to see what they think on the topic. :D

Lostn51 11-15-2009 11:09 AM

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Trugger not to hijack this thread or anything but I love your avatar and I think I have its sister in my lap right now.

This is her in my studio, she is in charge of quality control!! :lol:

Billy

trugger 11-15-2009 11:11 AM

Hijack anytime with a cutie like that!

mamabird3 11-15-2009 11:42 AM

Sweet dogs, I have a 117lb chocolate lab. He is appropriately named Tank. 11 years old and such a sweet sweet dog. Definatly a big part of our family


Back on topic... guess your cousins husband wants a manly wilderness quilt. :D Why didn't he just say so!

DarkGreenEyes 11-16-2009 09:49 AM

Nordi makes me think of Vikings and more celtic designs....maybe that's what he meant... :lol:

DA Mayer 11-16-2009 10:08 AM

Check out Decorah Iowa, they are very Nordic they have Nordic fest, Nordic Museum and I bet you should be able to find information about quilts in that area. This is the quilting guild and they may find you patterns or get some from the museum. http://www.neiqg.com/index.htm

GladGrams 11-16-2009 01:54 PM

Hi,

Being from Norway I should know what you mean, however..... When you talk sweaters it is the traditional snowflake designs etc. But, when it comes to quilting you may find that the nordic design patterns very much resemble the Amish quilts. Much to everyone's surprise (esp Hollywood) the Vikings loved colorful clothes and jewelry. The old Nordic designs are intricate kinds of Celtic patterns and usually include a dragon head or 2 - they were very attached to their Nordic Gods - Odin and Thor to name some as well as some queens Ragnhild and Gyda.

Use strong color and a kind of string quilt would be also acceptable because they needed to use "everything" as no one could afford to waste anything, (until the last 20 yrs anyway)...

There are some Norwegian quilting sites - google quilting or lappteknik Norway and see what happens.

hugs
Glad Grams


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