Hi Friends,
Opening up a thread for ideas and inspiration. (Please forgive any typo's as it is just gone 7am and this thought hit me just as my head hit the pillow last night)
I'm posting here, as I feel this board has a wealth of experience and knowledge and most importantly enthusiasm and support.
My 86 year old dad will be the centre of a family lunch next Saturday week. This will be a chance for me to meet my great nieces and nephews I've not yet met. My brother and his children and their young families will be there, as well as my Sister and my neice and family, not sure if one other nephew will be there...might be a surprise. I'll be there with my son.
My idea is to gather outlines of hand-prints and signatures on each individual present. Those nephews, their families and my son and his wife, I can ask them to send them down.
I could then applique each hand print as a leaf on a tree - colour shading dependent on which branch these families come from.
I could represent my mother as a butterfly near Dad's hand... the centre of the tree trunk.
I think I've seen similar done... am I making sense?
I could then make this up to give dad a quilt for Christmas.
Solid colours for the direct blood line individuals (me and my 2 siblings, and our respective children)
Pattern/blends for the spouses/partners
Adult children have geometric (male), floral (female) - also keeping in mind the direct descendant should have a more prominent colour.
Infants have children fabrics.
Is this making sense?? Has anybody done similar?
Thanks in advance.... gotta run to work now...
bronny
Opening up a thread for ideas and inspiration. (Please forgive any typo's as it is just gone 7am and this thought hit me just as my head hit the pillow last night)
I'm posting here, as I feel this board has a wealth of experience and knowledge and most importantly enthusiasm and support.
My 86 year old dad will be the centre of a family lunch next Saturday week. This will be a chance for me to meet my great nieces and nephews I've not yet met. My brother and his children and their young families will be there, as well as my Sister and my neice and family, not sure if one other nephew will be there...might be a surprise. I'll be there with my son.
My idea is to gather outlines of hand-prints and signatures on each individual present. Those nephews, their families and my son and his wife, I can ask them to send them down.
I could then applique each hand print as a leaf on a tree - colour shading dependent on which branch these families come from.
I could represent my mother as a butterfly near Dad's hand... the centre of the tree trunk.
I think I've seen similar done... am I making sense?
I could then make this up to give dad a quilt for Christmas.
Solid colours for the direct blood line individuals (me and my 2 siblings, and our respective children)
Pattern/blends for the spouses/partners
Adult children have geometric (male), floral (female) - also keeping in mind the direct descendant should have a more prominent colour.
Infants have children fabrics.
Is this making sense?? Has anybody done similar?
Thanks in advance.... gotta run to work now...
bronny
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