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thinking more about that cowboy fabric...lol. She would probably get a kick out of that being the backing! I can hear her now..."See the quilt my momma made? she got my friends to sign it and put my favorite horses on it...AND she put HOT cowboys on the back to keep me warm! lol! DD likes her farmboys and cowboys....no city boys for that girl. She will tell you real fast though that horses are better cause boys break your heart.

That would make him extra special, lol hope your quilt goes well.

How old is this young lady? Some of those cowboys...!

It sures lets me know I an't dead yet. Woooho

You might check out some of the patterns on fatcatpatterns.com. Sindy Rodenmeyer has some awesome free patterns for all kinds of quilts.

i just got the new keepsake quilting catalog (volume 23 summer 2010 ) & they have (on page 59) a book called "horsing around" 56 pages 31 different applique horse designs item # 1003 $21.95

i'm looking at it for my dgd, who loves horsies.

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Originally Posted by katier825

This fabric is really pretty: http://www.clothworks.com/collection.asp?ID=179

French braid is very easy and looks great as a border!

I bought some of the laurel birch horse fabric a couple months ago and plan to make a quilt with it. It is really pretty fabric!!

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Originally Posted by ginnie6

since dd is at horse camp all summer I came up with a brilliant idea. I'm going to make her a horse quilt! I'm not sure if I'll do applique horses (probably) or find a panel. I saw some beautiful horse fabric in the Hancocks of Paducah catalog though and it even looks like where she is. But for the border or sashing I'm thinking French Braid. I've not done that before though so how hard is it? Like I said I'm still just playing with the idea in my head...haven't set down to draw anything out yet. If I do the applique horse though I can put on the names of some of her favorite horses and I can use fabric I already have instead of buying any so that idea is way out front right now.

Great idea!! she will love it. I like your design idea too. I just started a horse themed quilt for myself. I have had horses all my life but I can't ride any more but I still have my horses. I am making a quilt and on some of the blocks I am machine embroidering a horse in the center. Then on 8 of the blocks I am embroidering the names of my horses I have had thru out my life. I am really excited about making this quilt. I will have to take a photo of the one block I have finished. I have been embroidering some of the horses the past few days. Tomorrow will work on adding the rest of the blocks together. The blocks are 12 inches with some flying geese and half square triangles around the 6 inch block with the embroidery on it. I found some beautiful fabric with horses running thru the snow in real pretty shades of blues, white and black with the brown horses. I am looking forward to how your quilt is coming along when ya get started. I will send some photos of my blocks tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by sewcrafty

If you have pictures of horses that you want to put in. JoAnn's carries June Tailor picture fabric. All you do is print the picture onto this fabric from you printer and use it like any other piece of material.

Thanks for this advice! I will be looking for this as the next quilt i do I want to do a few photos on it.