Memory quilts
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Memory quilts
I have been volunteered to make memory quilts for my siblings from my mother's clothing, I thought I had a plan and in the mean time have lost a brother. I have since come up with a bright idea of making the quilt from fabric that represents each of us. Dad smoked a pipe, Mom liked owls, I like cows, one lives in New Orleans, One is a nurse, one liked Doxies and another Raccoons. Thus I have 7 different materials to work with and am going to border the throws with a piano key border from Mom's clothing. My dilemma is I can't come up with any ideas for the blocks from the 7 different fabrics. I am planning on an off white for the background. Any ideas would be helpful.
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I think you could do most any block but would look for something that has ample space to show off the focal fabric (ie. square in a square) Then I'd use a sashing around each block, it would separate the blocks but it would pull the whole quilt together.
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I would use different sample blocks and sash together with a neutral. That way you could choose the block that most let you showcase a particular fabric. You can search for the size of the block that you want to make and choose from many different ones.
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