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How about using the hand prints as "leaves" on a tree? You could embroider the names on each handprint. OR how about a heart using the hand prints. Good luck. Hope you will post a picture when completed.
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I just did a quick search on yahoo search engine and entered "hand print poem" and got lots of results in the images that you might like as a starting point for your design.
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Have a look at some of these. I like the one where the hands make a heart shape.
https://www.google.com/search?safe=a...09.3nWmtgCtcuw Jan in VA |
Many years ago my mentor who was almost 35 years older than me showed me a quilt she had made using handprints. Each member of her huge extended family had given her an outline of their hand remembering that the hand had to be drawn but another so that the dominant hand was the drawing. She then transferred their hand outline on to muslin which was then appliqued on to a printed calico fabric. Each hand included the name and date of birth of the individual. They also included things such as wedding rings or other rings. One member had lost a finger due to an accident and that hand print reflected the loss. Baby hands were also included. She treasured this quilt and when she became ill knowing her time on this earth was coming to an end she told her family that she wanted it to be wrapped around her before she was cremated.
When she told me this story at first I was so amazed at all the family members included in the quilt and that they were willing to participate. Then I thought how could her family bear to part with it when the time came. But it was Nellie's wish to have the love of her family comforting her until the end and beyond. She was very well loved by everyone who knew her. I think any way you decide to put your hand quilt together will be cherished by all who receive the love you put into it. |
Originally Posted by Dina
(Post 7414283)
I remember a friend whose grown daughter asked for a quilt full of her mother's handprints. She said she wanted to wrap herself in her mother's arms, even when she was far away. Her mother outlined her hand and made blocks, where her hand was the center of each and filled up most of the block. She did each handprint in different fabric, I think. It was a bed sized quilt. Not sure if any of this info can help, but I know her mother really loved making the quilt and felt so loved that it had been requested. Her daughter also loved it.
It is just a beautiful idea. Dina Here are some more poems. You will have to go to view and use enlarge to about 400 to be able to read them. good luck. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...verlay&first=1 |
Originally Posted by Dina
(Post 7414283)
I remember a friend whose grown daughter asked for a quilt full of her mother's handprints. She said she wanted to wrap herself in her mother's arms, even when she was far away. Her mother outlined her hand and made blocks, where her hand was the center of each and filled up most of the block. She did each handprint in different fabric, I think. It was a bed sized quilt. Not sure if any of this info can help, but I know her mother really loved making the quilt and felt so loved that it had been requested. Her daughter also loved it.
It is just a beautiful idea. Dina Here are some poems. You will have to go to view and use enlarge to about 400 to be able to read them. good luck. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...verlay&first=1 |
I saw one (not sure where) that had a tree trunk and used the handprints as leaves on the tree. The tree was pieced and the 'leaves' were appliqued.
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