Quilt for my husband- Imaginations needed!
 

OK here is the challenge. Below is a snapshot of my newly painted bedroom. (Hence the mess) What I need from you, is a specific precut (any type, jelly roll, layer cake ect), and a specific pattern for a queen size quilt that would suit a man in his late 20's, but still pretty enough to sit on our bed. It must match/coordinate with the walls in the picture! I am having serious trouble figuring out what to do with this one! Thanks all!

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How about a Jacob's Ladder? Check out the tutorial Jenny from the Missouri Star company has on youtube. I'm pretty sure she uses precuts.

D9P would look nice. Or a trip around the world.

Both would work- any ideas for a specific batch of colors/pre cuts? I am really having trouble with that part.

Green cream with a splash of purple. Jelly roll or charm pack.

What about a two color quilt like a double irish chain or tree of life pattern?

Hunter's star in green and (grey or whatever color your carpet is)?

Quilter2theend- what is a tree of life pattern? I googled it and came up with a bunch of different ones. Can you link one that you were talking about?

I made a Pickle quilt for my son and his wife.... all greens and browns. I paper pieced a brown bear and placed it in the middle. It really was nice!

Take a sample of the paint color, and go fabric shopping! LOL!

http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t221305.html

Seeing your room color... batik fabric is what comes to my mind.
Plan on making one of these very soon.

How about a Hunters Star. I just can't bring myself to be limited by precuts, sorry. Since the room is so green, I wouldn't want to use to much more of that color in a quilt except as an accent color. But a gold or beige tone on tone w/a bit of green in it would be lovely. I also like Triple Irish Chain which could be done w/ strips. Another way to go would be a patterned scrappy quilt to add lots of color that DH likes. This could be very pretty also.

What ever you choose be sure to post it!
peace

EDIT: The Jacobs Ladder in bright scrappy style idea would be my favorite choice for this room.

Check out these green quilts for ideas. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...mg.LhkjPun8PN0

Jan in VA

greens, browns, beiges, and creams. throw some muted reds into it and maybe a pop of yellow cream.

Turning 20.There ought to be plenty of greens out there to make a spectacular quilt! Good luck in you mission!

I would use green & blue with a touch of yellow. Yummy!

What other colors does he like?

I would want the quilt to be lighter/brighter than these walls.

So you could find varying lighter tones of the same green or add tans or taupes and cream.
Maybe add some rust, orange, brick red for the bright accents.

I'm learning that I need more lights and brights in mine. I love the deep, rich colors but without the lighter, brighter to go with them, they don't have good contrast and end up almost depressing. (Or I put only brights and need sunglasses. Lol. !)

I made this quilt for our man cave from 20 batik fat quarters. http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...sy-t75757.html


I purchased Elisa's Backporch Crazy Curves 7" template. The quilt pattern is included with the template.

Elisa has video tutorials for cutting the fat quarters and sewing the curves. I prefer sewing the curves with no pins. It really is as easy as it looks on the tutorial.

http://backporchdesign.com/video_tutorials.htm

I think the quilt goes together so quickly because the blocks are big and consist of only 2 pieces.

i've always liked the bear paw pattern - very masculine.

This thread has been very timely for me. At the end of winter, when flannels were on big time sale, I collected for a lap quilt for hubby and also got scraps from a friend. I'm taking it to a retreat this next weekend. I like Jacobs Ladder, mega sized or Turning Twenty (+45 ish). I have green and reds to match our living room and I think I'll throw in some purple (an excuse for shopping).

So thanks for the ideas, it's double duty, cause I can use this too.

I think you need another color. Maybe navy?

The green walls are very green and dominant, so I would use more of a compliment color with less green. Too much green in the room will just make you measurable. What ever you choose, just don't add flowers, men hate flowers.

You have many suggestions from these talented ladies. I would love to see the quilt that you make.

Plaid fabrics tend to make any pattern masculine, imho.

What about any hobbies your husband has? Include some prints of thoses - fishing, motorcycles, reading OR work type prints - trucks, shields (for police officers/firefighters), etc.

If you want a precut, Kansas Troubles uses that same green in their fabrics. Moda produces their fabric lines.

A Carpenter Star is a beautiful quilt pattern.

Forgot to say, I would use lighter colors, like cream to make it pop with the room color, combined with a coordinating browns or tans -- choose three colors for the Carpenter star and make one of them cream.

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What about making the Big Star Quilt? Here's a link to Jenny Doan's tutorial on this quilt using the Orchard House precuts by Windham. Also, what about the La Belle Fleur collection by French General / Moda? There is a lot of sage/cream/burgundy colors in it. Good luck. Hope to see a picture of the finished product.:o

The first thought that came into my mind when I saw your hunter green walls is a Irish Chain quilt. It is a gender neutral patterns, I think. Green and white would be lovely in a Irish Chain pattern.

With the green walls I would go double or triple Irish chain.

I have made several quilts for men and it seems to me, as long as it does not have flowers, they are pretty happy with whatever you make. I've done baby blue and white, red, white and black, blue and black, turquoise and brown, etc. The only thing???? no flowers!

Living on the Gulf coast your room says water and beach to me in batiks! Think water, sand and sky- if you want more pizzazz than restful throw some sunrise (lighter) or sunset (brighter and darker) into it. Any of the already mentioned patterns would work, but I'm leaning towards Trip around the world. Post pics for us!

I like the green and white! What does he like!
Jenny's big star is easy and uses pre cut sqs. and she has lots of different quilts made from jelly rolls and other strip bundles.. I love the hidden well design. Jenny made it with strips, then cut sqs, lay two together with strips going opposite each other, sew around all edges of sq. and cut diagonal corner to corner, open, press, and sew those sqs together (either with x shape, or with sq center). When finished the sqs look complicated and impressive! With the right colors these blocks are very regal looking! I am making a quilt with this block that has brown paisley print with gold threads and red strips that would look great in your room..maybe put in a strip of hunter green.
Love to see what you come up with!

The first pattern that popped into my mind was Jacob's Ladder, with a non-floral focus fabric, a complimentary fabric with a white or cream background. Another choice might be a log cabin quilt. I look forward to seeing what you decide on. Love the green on the walls with the white woodwork.

How about a log cabin using the various shades of green and cream. I made a green and cream vertical log cabin for DH for Christmas 2 yrs ago, using a gold center block. I think it turned out o.k. It should be on the board listed in pic. as "Greens with White Sauce".

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Sorry - forgot the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkm3nCferp4

hunter's star was the pattern that came to mind when I started reading this post. I like the gray or carpet color suggestion too.

How about one of these I save pictures of Quilts on my computer when I might want to make one or need ideas and these are just a few I have saved if I can get them loaded

Batiks came to my mind also. I am in love with the jelly role batiks. You just can't go wrong with them. I love the Hidden Wells pattern and am making my third one (all for grandchildren and one is a boy). I love the pattern in HillCountryGal's post. It is spectacular! May be my next pattern. Also, my 11-year old GD just picked out a pack of jelly roles and the "racing" pattern. So easy, generic and beautiful. Good luck.