Fruit & Veggie fabrics - canning jar quilts?
05-10-2011, 02:53 PM
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I bought a ton of the Farmer John fabrics and made a beautiful wedding quilt out of the Courthouse steps pattern for my little hippie girl niece. I have tons of left overs and plan on one day soon doing a canning jar table runner with a bunch of placemats. Not sure how to do the placemats, but will come up with some design. I will use any and all of the different fruits and vegetable prints.
05-10-2011, 06:42 PM
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Our guild did several "jar" quilts. Some were fruit and veggies and some were bugs. I did one in honor of my cat. It is called Lacey's Pantry, Exotic Snacks for Kitty Cats. It has a new home in my goddaughter's Pet store. Since my cat eats all kinds of bugs, I thought it was fitting. Quilting "weird and wonderfuls" every now and then makes quilting fun.
05-11-2011, 01:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Numa
We did one at church for one of our elders. "Canned " the appropriate fruits and veggies, designed baskets to hold potatoes, apples, tomatoes (they had stems and leaves). We also "canned" apple butter and jellies. Designed pint baskets too for any others that wouldn't look right canned.
05-11-2011, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
Those of you who have purchased fruit and vegetable fabrics (such as RJR's Farmer's Market)... did you use them for I-Spy quilts, or canning jar quilts?
And if you used them in canning jar quilts, were you literal enough in your interpretation to only use fruits and veggies that actually would be canned (which rules out lettuce and bananas) or did you just pick whatever was pretty and colorful? How many jars did you wind up with?
And if you used them in canning jar quilts, were you literal enough in your interpretation to only use fruits and veggies that actually would be canned (which rules out lettuce and bananas) or did you just pick whatever was pretty and colorful? How many jars did you wind up with?
05-12-2011, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Parrothead
To Purplefiend from a Purple Nut
I like the idea of seeds and nuts. I'm not sure what critters I could think of that I want to eat that would be that small but maybe eggs.
Your quilt is beautiful!!
Sue
I like the idea of seeds and nuts. I'm not sure what critters I could think of that I want to eat that would be that small but maybe eggs.
Your quilt is beautiful!!
Sue
I was desperate for a few more fabrics, all the fabrics are different.
There are 96 mason jar blocks on the front, #97 is the label and I made it so that it looks like the jar has a label.
Sharon
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