Open Line Friday-Quilt-a-Song
Good Morning, Quilters!
Welcome to Open Line Friday!
Today’s question:
If YOU were to turn any song or poem into a quilt, what would it be?
Of thee I sing….
We’d LOVE to hear!
Lullaby Lori
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Rain, rain go away..come again another day…complete with raining cats and dogs on to a gigantic umbrella
Do you live in Ohio? That’s all we’ve had this summer! lol
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. Quilted around the border of a baby quilt.
I just say to myself “It’s a Wonderful World”.
Now I lay me down to sleep … on a precious baby quilt as a gift!
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.
Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all. (Emily Dickinson)
What a great question! I really have to think about that one! The first poem that came to mind was Joyce Kilmer’s tree poem, because I love quilts with tree or leaf designs. But a song…? I’m going to be humming to myself all day trying to come up with a quilty song choice. Thanks for such a fun topic Lori!
It has me excited too!
One of Bruce Springsteen’s beautiful songs
The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat. Lol
That would be adorable Patti!
Thunder by Guns and Roses
Heard it through the Grapevine
I did one over 10 years ago that was inspired by “Bread and Roses.” It was written by a man for women who were seeking better working conditions about 100 years ago. I have it on a Judy Collins CD. When my kids were both in college I finally had time to make the quilt.
Somewhere over the rainbow…or On the wings of a snow white dove…this is a tough one! So many great songs!
I see trees of green red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I say to myself What a wonderful world
(Louie Armstrong)
We are so blessed!
Perfect!!! May steal this idea!
I just got chicks in May, and I keep singing:
“Talk a little, pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, cheep, cheep, cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more”
That’d be fun on a chicken-themed quilt. 🙂
LOTS of great ideas here!
Adorable!
For the Beauty of the Earth! My daughter and I just put together a quilt top full of Alaska batiks we have been collecting together-most are animals-otters, moose, whales, salmon, ptarmigans, in greens and blues.
Winter – Frosty the Snow Man
I’m currently working on my fourth song lyric quilt, i love them!
Send a link!
Impossible!! For a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage.
Impossible!! For a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage
And four white mice will never be four white horses.
(Rodgers and Hammerstein Cinderella)
Love that song!!!
for a refugee – A John Denver song – This is for the refugee. It was a scrap quilt with white lettering stitched into the quilt. I have since lost touch with the lady, who was a white Zimbabwean who came to the UK.
How nice!!
I’m working on a Happy Birthday quilt with candles, presents, ice cream cones, cupcakes, pinwheels, and the letters Happy Birthday. It’s going to a family of 5 so am going to stitch their names on top of the ice cream cones.
So cute!!
A few years ago I made a fractured landscape quilt inspired by Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”. Of all of the quilts that I’ve made it’s my favorite. I learned the technique from a book, “Winter Trees” by another Kennedy, Jane Kennedy. Everyone who knows me thinks it’s funny that I like this poem and made this quilt because they all know that I do not like snow!
‘Good morning starshine’ (the earth says hello…you twinkle above us, we twinkle below…). I made a quilt for my grandson with lots of apliqued star shaped flowers in the botton part of the quilt on a green patched background echoing stars in the top of the quilt appliqued on a blue patched background. I loved making that quilt.
The Way by Jeremy Camp “Glory shines all around us”
For “real” quilt songs go to
Cathy Miller, the singing quilter
She is “a stitch”, but unfortunately has retired.
Birds like feathered tailors
Walk around on pointed toe
Putting fancy stitches in the
Clean white sheet of snow…Martin Buxbaum
Don’t you just love words!
I do love that!!
Such a fun topic. I haven’t come up with a song but I sure had many going through my head reading all these replies. Only a couple I didn’t know.
Polly, I think that I could only make the same choice as you have already put a claim to.
Sound of Music : Some of My Favorite Things…each thing in a block…
Laughed when I saw this post as I am currently designing an “Hallelujah Chorus” quilt 🙂