Help Me Brainstorm My New Year's Resolution
Saturday December 30, 2006
We have the best veterinary hospital that anyone could ask for. Everyone on staff -- vets, techs, pharmacy staff, reception, everyone -- is absolutely tops in terms of expertise, and they all truly care about our animal buds. We joke in our house that if we need surgery, please deliver us to the vet. How many clinics have staff who sit and cuddle your pets in warm blankets to keep them safe when they're waking up from surgery? Or call you during surgeries to deliver updates? Cry with you when you lose a friend? They are truly special, and one of my New Year's resolutions is to make a wallhanging for the hospital. I've meant to do it forever, but the project kept getting put aside. Now I think I've found the perfect fabric -- Kitty Chronicles from Timeless Treasures. It's a fabric printed with "news" stories about all sorts of cats, a lighthearted image for a building that houses its share of sad stories. But I need your help. Should I use a large section of the print as a focal point, and place blocks and borders around it, or should I cut up individual stories and feature them in blocks? So help me brainstorm. I'd appreciate any ideas you have for this quilt.PS - They have a doggie version too
Comments
Do you have any way to get photos of staff with the animals? I have a photo process that will put the photo’s on material (this is NOT a transfer) but a printing process so it is colorfast, etc. Then you can make borders around the pictures with the material.
Let me know if I can help, it sounds like a worthwhile endeavor. There can’t be too many good animal hospitals.
blocks around individual stories in bright colored fabric, then a larger border with colorful cat fabric. sounds too cute to me. show us a pic when done.
I agree with the previous 2 comments. I would make it look like the “Bulliten Board” that most vet’s have in their office, use some pic’s of real animals that they treat and use some of the new’s story’s, maybe make them so you can remove some of them and change them out depending on the season, I think for the border, I’d use cat and doggie paw print’s, (real one’s) fabric dye
You could go whimsical and use the fabric as a newsepaper being read by cat. Picture someone sitting on a bench, holding a newspaper open in front of them as they read … now make that person is a cat.
I really like the other suggestions, too and know whichever way you go with this gift, it will be appreciated.
I like the idea of fussy cutting the articles from the fabric and putting a colorful border around the blocks. The outside border of the quilt would be really cute with the paw prints. I hope you will post a picture when it is complete. Happy New Year and Happy Quilting
I love your idea. A friend of mine opened a cat shelter about a year ago. She is always full of homeless kitties. I’m sure she would love something like this to hang up on the wall so when people come in to adopt, they can see how much she is appreciated for all her hard work. Great idea, I hope you don’t mind if I borrow it.
While reading your comments, I first felt a sense of injustice on behalf of all dogs everywhere, and then I got this image of a dog tearing up the newspaper with all the kitties on it!! Not sure if this idea is doable, but it sure makes me chuckle just thinking about it.
I like all of the ideas. Maybe you could ad light colored strips where pet owners could “sign” their pets name with a paw print. It would then be a signature quilt. Debby
I like the idea of fussy cutting the articles out and using pictures of the staff in it somewhere with a border of paws prints.
I like both of your ideas, and I like the idea of creating a sort of bulletin board with bright fabric around the stories. I’m going to have to get some of this fabric for myself. Our vet sent us the nicest card and notes when we lost a cat. So, I’m thinking they need a wallhanging for their office.