What a fun way to do a family tree. Thanks for sharing the picture....

question, how would somebody make one of theese quilts if a dievorce is happening. but the female in the dievorce is my sis. and i can't stand her hus. but love my neice and knephew. i wanted to make one but with plain squares and then some kind of pattern for the next block and so on.

what I did on this one was put the fathers name birth date the date married I did this so the children would know these importation dates after all he his their father the purpose of a family quilt is imformation the more history on it makes it more exciting to make the main thing is to have fun and enjoy doing good luck with your quilt and be sure and post it on the board

I want to make one. Did you make this up or is their a pattern? About the divorce, I would ignore that, and just put the apples for the kids with their dad. If someone remarries, add another apple somewhere close to the spouse and add more apples for the children next to his apple. I think from looking at the quilt that the apples below a row and farther out are the grandchildren and gggrandchildren of the children on the branches. Is that right?

maybe have a little worm coming out of that apple??? :lol:


Seriously though what a fantastic way to celebrate your family. This is truly a treasure to be enjoyed for a long time to come. Wonderful!!

Wow! What a project... and how blessed you are to have such a big family!

Wow!That is beautiful! How blessed you are to have such a big family and how blessed they are to have you! :D I have been thinking about making one of these quilts...mine would probably look like yours, lol. I also have a large family. How long did it take you to make one of these quilts?

No I DIDNT HAVE A PATTERN I had to use my brain this time and that was hard to do the large apples are for mom and dad at the top the next coming down next to the trunk are all their children 6 out beside each child is there children in under each of them are their children it took a lot of laying it on and taking it off but I had a great time doing the 5 guilts the greatest time was seeing the joy in my mom and brothers reserving there own quilt now that was worth it all thank you all again

it took me 5mo to put the names and dates about 3wks to lay it out another 7mo to quilt that was working 10 to 12 hr days and some days longer many many mights I started them last july and f-----ed in june this yr a week before we were due in tx

here is a better pic hagging at the reuion