I have just participated in an Americana quilt block swap, where I made blocks of the US flag ( Stars and Stripes ). This has inspired me to want to make a quilt, which includes flags of several nations. Would anyone happen to know of any sites with patterns for flag blocks? I have googled this, but haven't come up with anything other than patterns for the US flag. TIA.
a lot of European flags are just 3 bands of colour so they can all be done in a rail fence :-) the Dutch flag and the Luxemburg flag al *almost* the same but the red and blue of Luxemburg are paler: The Netherlands: red white blue Luxemburg: paler red white paler blue
then there is the German flag (black/yellow/red) , Spanish flag (red/yellow/red) French flag (up and down red/white/blue)
so... start with googling flags and see how many railfences you can find as they are nice and easy :-)
A lot of countries seem to have flags of just three colours in a row.
I have never seen a patchwork block of the Uk Union Jack, probably because there are not many quilters here compared to the USA. I think you would have to paper piece it - all those corners.
However if you do do one, a word of warning! There is a right way up and an upside down. Hanging with a flagpole to the left, the white stripe at
10 o'clock next to the pole should be the narrow white one, then going up the red one, and then the wider white one. It is actually a combination of the Red cross on white of St. George (England), the blue diagonal cross on white of St Andrew (Scotland) and the red diagonal of St Patrick (Ireland). I always wondered what happed to the Welsh flag.
Its original name of Union Jack came because it was used on ships, and it became what is was always called. However it now seems to be called the Union Flag now for some unknown reason. But I stick with the Union Jack!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> I have just participated in an Americana quilt block swap, where I> made blocks of the US flag ( Stars and Stripes ). This has inspired me> to want to make a quilt, which includes flags of several nations.> Would anyone happen to know of any sites with patterns for flag> blocks? I have googled this, but haven't come up with anything other> than patterns for the US flag. TIA.>
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