Commemorative Quilts
If you enjoy quilting or are part of a group of quilters, making a commemorative quilt is a great way to mark a significant event. With a wide range of patterned and plain fabrics on offer you are sure to find the right colours and quilt patterns to match the occasion.
Create a Lasting Memory
A commemorative quilt could be used to mark events in the wider community or within the family. So whether you're looking to celebrate a special event that has touched your life in a hugely positive way, or conversely something that has perhaps impacted you with shock and sadness, be it a personal or global tragedy, a quilt can be the ideal way to convey emotion and ensure a lasting legacy for others to share.
Commemorating Events Together
Quilters groups throughout the country and beyond regularly draw collective skills together to commemorate landmark events. Not only is it a great way of pulling together in order to achieve a collective goal, but it also offers a lasting memory of a time and a place with the influence of a number of individual quilters' skills in evidence.
Beautiful Personal Quilts
Of course for a more personal project the satisfaction is in creating something unique and conceptualised wholly on your own. It's an opportunity for you to honour the passing of an event and offer your own interpretation through quilting. From conventional imagery and colour styles to a more avant-garde concept you always have the freedom to take the project in whatever direction you desire, helped of course by the ever-expanding range of quality fabrics.
Choosing the Right Fabrics
Buying a jelly roll or charm pack and stashing it away means that you always be prepared for any unexpected events that you would like to make a commemorative quilt for. Some of the quilt patterns can be easily adapted like the Monkey Buttons square band quilt the framed centre could hold a picture. For a royal occasion a red, white and blue quilt with gold accents would make a great way to remember the event.
A simple fabric like 'To Georgia Love Mummy' would make a good simple background for a story quilt. This quilt is made from strips of fabrics that could be contributed by a group of people to make the finished quilt. So whatever design inspiration you have and whatever the subject matter, the variety of fabrics on offer should provide more than ample diversity for you to create.