Hi, everyone, Have any of you seen any quilting fabric that has swimmers on it? Step-grandson has turned into a top-notch swimmer and would like to make something fitting the sport. Or if any of you have any counted cross stitch pattern of a swimmer, that would also be a great asset for me. Would settle up financially when needed. Thanks for any help or suggestions. Marlys in Indiana
Hi Marlys I went to quiltshops.com and typed "swim" in the search field, and it mostly brought up fish or turtles or something. However, there was ONE fabric that had swimmers at the beach, really cute..... and it may work for you if you fussy cut. There was also some great stuff with swim suits, etc. Here's the link to the one I found..... (and there's a matching stripe to go with it!)
Wish Upon A Quilt, LLC.
IIRC, Alexander Henry has a fabric with very curvy girls in swimwear. Is step-grandson of an age where that would be a good thing in a quilt?
I thought about that a while ago when we had aome fabric with a very realistic swimming-pool-water design, and some old official-issue swimming trunks from British municipal swimming pools in the 1930s (a friend of mine helped clear out the factory they were made in, in his capacity as an industrial-history museum curator).
What I came up with, but never did, was to have the water as a more or less continuous piece, with bits of swimmers appliqued onto it as if poking up into the air (mainly bums, but the odd hand, foot or swimmer's hat). They could be quite three-dimensional, like fabric models of snorkels. And you could add a few projecting shark fins.
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Here's the one I was thinking of.
oh that sounds like fun!!!
Marlys, it's late night but tomorrow I will call friend here and ask where she got swimmer fabric. Her daughter is going to college on a swimming scholarship (the girl is a fish!) and she made some stuff for the swim team last year. I will see what she knows.
Sunny
Marlys > Hi, everyone,
Ok, this may not be too helpful, but check this
and this (swimming cats, really cute and different from the ubiquitous girls in swim suits)
Sunny
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