Our rural area is at long last is forming a guild. I'm excited!

Our first meeting was the other day. There was a suggestion we create a quilt to raffle in honor of tobacco heritage within the county. We were challenged to come up with ideas for this quilt.

I have googled and visited PInterest. There's a old Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt names "Old Tobacco Road" that looks like it is for average skills. There is a Denyse Schmidt pattern (I ordered the book) called "Tobacco Leaf" that is beautiful, yet very complicated. Very reminiscent of Double Wedding Ring and most likely beyond my skill.

I know we could applique a tobacco leaf or make a version of a tobacco barn. It would be gorgeous to have a scene in the middle of tobacco field and barn...but I have no artistic ability to create such. I have attempted to search for clip art or scenes online, but have not found a great deal. I do want to experiment with printing out some photos of tobacco barns I have on my camera, but my laptop turned up its toes and died before Christmas. Had to send it off for major repair and just got it back this week. Still trying to get all my programs back on hard drive, need some good material to try this with. So still on a hold pattern with this strategy.

I think no matter what the guild decides, I want to do a tobacco themed quilt for DH. His family raised tobacco until the federal program bought back the pounds. I think he would appreciate the effort.

I am leaning toward combining several ideas. I need all the input I can get.

If anyone has any ideas or resources to use for such a quilt, I would appreciate the input. In researching tobacco quilts, I find references to using the old "flags" that came out of tobacco packages, but that is not what I am looking for...actually want to represent tobacco growing.

Thanks for any ideas or input.