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been a bad grandaughter - need ideas

I've been a very bad grandaughter and forgotten my grandad's 75th birthday - the worrying thing is, even when my gran sent me an email entitled "birthday" I had no idea what she was talking about - I haven't shared with my family some of the health issues I've been having recently, so though I know I've got a reasonable excuse, I'm just the bad grandaughter, what's worse is I'm the only grandchild with kids, so my default ALL his great grandchildren have failed to make the occasion.

Believing everything can be put right with a quilt, I want to give him something to make the occasion. They live in Cyprus, so I was thinking a wall hanging. He was a mathematician, so I'd been wondering about something along those lines, but I'm also thinking that including photos would be a good idea, I'm intending on a fabric photo frame, rather than transferring the photos onto fabric, I've done that before, by tucking half inch wide flaps around the whole photo, another option would be photo corners.

Any ideas very welcome, I've been looking at Pat's book and lovely though it is, right now everything is screaming "too hard" at me. Simple, but clear would be great! I'll probably incorporate machine embroidery to personalise it - but what should I write, his name, or "Grandad", I think myself I like it when I get something that says "Mummy", but then I have the dilema, do I say "Grandad" or "Great Grandad", I'll be doing the making, but I'll put photos of the children on it, not me.

Cheers Anne

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Anne Rogers
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If you haven't, I'd suggest calling him as soon as possible. Let him know you have been very sick and that has delayed a special gift you are still working on for him. Then maybe also get a "store bought" gift, also, ASAP and get it to him, letting him know that the special gift will be coming soon. Barbara in FL

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Bobbie Sews Moore

This probably sounds really odd, but I've never talked to him on the phone and I don't think now is the time to start! Ever since I was 4, we've always live in different countries and phone calls cost your life savings from the UK to Fiji back then. He has some kind of mental deterioration following a stroke, so I'm not sure he manages phone calls anyway. For the same reasons we haven't done gifts at all and the only thing I could think of to buy for him would be a favourite alcoholic drink, which I couldn't send in the mail. If I put my mind to it, I could probably get something like this done over the weekend, so barely any delay over posting a card today.

Cheers Anne

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Anne Rogers

It sounds like a lap quilt would be appropriate.

Reply to
Boca Jan

Anne, how about a quilt based on Latin Squares*?

N different fabrics arranged in a N x N array -- you could put your photos in the center of each square. Then maybe quilt each square with a Fibonacci spiral?

*Sudoku puzzles are based on 9x9 Latin Squares, but mathematicians will probably best know them under the Latin Square title.

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Kay Lancaster

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