Hi, I am looking for a quilt pattern with walking horses on it and I am not having very much luck. Do you know of any? I am a beginner so I would have to have a pattern to follow, i'm not good at just making it up in my head.
Thanks!
Le Anne

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LeAnne -

Welcome to BC.

Are you looking for realistic-looking horses or do you want to use a focal fabric with horses on it?

Hi Linda!
I really dont know what I am looking for. Someone did me a favor and I asked if I could repay them and they asked if i could make a quilt with walking horses on it... here is a picture of what i am sort of going for

walking_horse.JPG (10 Kb, 74 downloads)

I know I've seen several fabrics with horses on them, but most are standing in pastures or on western-themed fabrics. The Take Five pattern is very easy and would be good for a focal fabric with horses on it. Then you would need 4 other coordinating fabrics - horses, tone-on-tones, horsey things, etc.

You can search for Take Five quilt pattern on line and see what you think.

Hi GAQuilter (and Linda O too!)

You have taken on the impossible task!!...lol I did a fabric search for you on Tennessee Walking Horses, gaited horses, and standard breds. Not ONE good hit. Sorry...

There are horse fabrics (I just bought some yesterday), but you have one option if you're set on doing a walking horse. You need to go to a Tennessee Walking Horse website and look for any graphics you may find (like the one you posted for us to see). You could print it...and blow it up a few times, but you'd still have to MAKE a pattern to paper piece this into perhaps a center block. I once traced a photo of a friend of mine jumping her horse and embroidered that onto muslin...and made that into a center block on a pillow. You can print on fabric... so...you could enlarge the photo you posted... and get that printed onto several center squares and then make blocks (like Happy Blocks) around that.

You could make your self NUTS with this project! Maybe just make her a horse quilt of generic breeds, OR ask her for another theme because her choice is NOT available in fabric...lol

I'm going to send you a PM of some horse fabrics.

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I have a quilting friend who did the most amazing pattern....almost like a garden gate....

Here's what I am imagining....Take that image to a local copy store and have them make it large. Then before you cut it out, add other things to make it a "mesh"....where they are touching in at least one point, preferably more. For example, draw a thick circle around the horse that hits it in at least 2 places. Then add fusible web and cut out the silhouette on a dark color. Piece the backing and then use the fusible to iron it down. Quilt to bring out the different elements.

The "opposite" way is to start with a full black background and do it more like you were filling in stained glass. My friend used fusible stablizer to make the black lines and then filled them in with material.

Either way though, it means developing your own pattern. And that is when the local copy shop with a large enlargement machine (think architectural plans) is handy.

Luvs..
I would LOVE to see a photo of that! Sounds like true art!

Hi Le Anne,
I went to one of my favorite sites looking for horse silhouettes. I'm sorry but I don't know how to attach the web page yet, but it's www.equilter.com.
Go to farm animals & on the first page is a fusible applique pattern of horse silhouetts. Then on page 2 is fabric called "Home on the Range" with black horse silhouettes. Page 3 had a beautiful fabric of horses running called "South west fantasy" by Michael Miller.
Good luck.

Rebeca P

Hi LeAnne - if you're looking for a picture of a walking horse to use for applique on this quilt (which is the way I would go personally, but that's me! ), you might want to buy a Breyer coloring book and use the walking horse they have in there. (The book encompasses many breeds, the Tennessee Walker is just one of them.) I have that book for my daughter and the horse is in a very pretty, gaited horse pose. I see you're in Georgia, but I don't know where. If you have a Horse Town tack shop near you, I know they carry the Breyer coloring books, but I'm sure most tack shops do.

I hope all these suggestions help you some. Good luck!

Suzanne
GREAT SUGGESTION! She would for sure find what she needed there. I used to use kids coloring books when I'd use color flo on cakes! That made things SOOOO EASY!

HOWEEEEEEVER....HEHE

LeAnn..
On behalf of you I called my quilting store and they kindly gave me the info from the fabric I found yesterday that I LOVED! Being a batik the makers information didn't show on the selvage.

Ok...here you go. It comes in brown, cream and heather. Here's the colors...AND the link! If you liked this it would get you out of having to make an intricate pattern of the horse.



It's a fabric made by Timeless Treasures. The brown's order # is b2577. Just put that in the "Search by Keyword or Style:" search option.

Here's the actual link - Timeless Treasures Horse Batiks

I don't know if this will help you or confuse the issue...but...this really is beautiful fabric! I can't decide if the horses look like scared Arabians or cave painting horses...lolol Regardless... I love it.
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