July 2008 Challenge: Nursery Rhymes! (Page 1)

St. Charles, IL USA

Designed for clubEQ challenge for July, 2008: Nursery Rhymes!

Applique blocks from the EQ6 block library were combined to create the center motif.

St. Charles, IL USA

Designed for clubEQ challenge for July, 2008: Nursery Rhymes!

Applique blocks from the EQ6 block library were converted to redwork with the thread tool.

This is a nursery rhyme that many American children have played with for generations. Today it might be called "politically incorrect" because it describes violence toward children. Often I say this rhyme and conveniently forget the concluding lines.

There was an old woman,
Who lived in a shoe;
She had so many children,
She didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth,
Without any bread;
She whipped them all soundly,
And sent them to bed.

I used mostly applique blocks and motifs from the Library.
The scallops on the border were an attempt to use Andrea's instructions to draw them. My granddaughter liked them so I left them.

Nursery Rhymes.
I used the motifs from the Library, and wrote the rhyme on the grass.
I would probably think of this as a wall hanging rather than a quilt.

Brooklyn Park, MN

Come to the window,
My baby, with me,
And look at the stars
That shine on the sea!
There are two little stars
That play bo-peep
With two little fish
Far down in the deep;
And two little frogs
Cry "Neap, neap, neap;"
I see a dear baby
That should be asleep.

From Taiwan

Binghamton, NY

I had a lot of fun importing and tracing clip art.

Davenport, IA

I used animal fabrics and the Corn and Beans
block to fit the rhyme.

Davenport, IA

I had to draw the cockle shell--took some time to find out what it looked like. The silver bells and pretty maids were in the block library.

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye;
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.

This nursery rhyme was one of my favorites when I was a small child. I felt so proud of myself when I could recite all four stanzas by myself. Whoever would have guessed then that I'd be designing a quilt to highlight its theme today? Not me! But that was what seems like a thousand years ago when we never imagined we'd have a wonderful tool like EQ to play with either. .

A part of the Netherlands all the people lives beneath sea-level. Also the the town Amsterdam. Before in this part by starting to build new houses first they drives reinforced concretes in the ground .
In early time it were wooden concretes.
Our house is also build in wooden concretes.

In this song it told you that:
Amsterdam the big city.
Is build on concretes.

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

The song of seven frogs.

Is going about seven frogs in a ditch by the farmershouse .
The ditch is full of ice .
They talkn't together and also they didn't says kwak.
They were little bit dead.
They were hungry and sorrow.

There are a lot of more couplets with a good ending

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

Ramona, CA

This is a german nursery rhyme,which means:
"Who has the prettiest little sheep?
It is the golden moon,
who lives behind the trees on the heaven above."

Sheboygan,Wi.

I drew Daffy Down Dilly as I visualized her.
The houses and flower pot I tweaked a little from the EQ Library.

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found it.
Not a penny was there in it,
Only ribbon 'round it.

In this English nursery rhyme, Lucy Locket was a barmaid at the Cock, in Fleet Street, London, sometime in the 1700's. Lucy discarded one of her lovers (her 'pocket') when she had run through all his money. Kitty Fisher, a noted courtesan, took up with him even though he had no money.

The rhyme also taunts Lucy because a 'pocket' was what prostitutes kept their money in. They would tie it to their thigh with a ribbon.

I found the entire rhyme in "Ring Around the Moon" (©1977) by Edith Fowke -- a delightful book.

Sunnyside, Washington

The refrain of this nursery rhyme ditty is:

Then the birds of the air
Fell a-sighing and a-sobbing
When they heard of the death
Of poor Cock Robin ...

In the five verses, the Sparrow admits to doing the foul deed with his bow and arrow; the Fly saw him die with his little eye; the Fish caught his blood with his little dish; the Owl dug his grave with his paddock and trowel; and the Rook was the chief mourner because he can croak.

The background of the story identifies Sir Robert Walpole as Robin -- Robin being a pet name for Robert. The 'death' is not his actual death but satire for his spectacular political rise, fall and then resignation in 1742. But some still say this Robin is the mythical (or not) Robin Hood.

Sunnyside, Washington

Ontario, Canada

This is a cute little counting rhyme. The colours in the quilt make it suitable for a boy or a girl. The blocks in the border are from the library and are named "one, two, buckle my shoe". Perfect for this quilt. The sticks started out as candles and holder from the contemporary applique holiday collection.

Houston, Texas, USA

"Miss Suzy" isn't a nursery rhyme, but it's a childhood treasure. To recreate the cover of this beloved book, I drew the characters as motifs in Patchdraw and set them on Layer 2 of a Custom Set quilt. The text was created with the Set Applique Text tool. So many wonderful fonts in this program!

Why have one nursery rhyme when you can have a bunch of them?

I was actually playing with a nursery rhyme quilt when I learned about the contest! A little motivation to TRY to clean this up a bit.

The size isn't quite right though -- too big.

I've taken off one of the borders and adjusted the size of the blocks to make it the right size for the contest, but I think I'd personally make the "too big" one for a play blankie. :)

For this famous French song for children, I drew the first boat of a famous French sailor (Eric Tabarly): the Pen Duick I. This year is the 10th anniversary of his death. Sun compass is from EQ libary.

Cheers from France

Guildford, England

Mary, Mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With Silver bells and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.

The Mary in this nursery rhyme is thought to be Mary Queen of Scots. The "pretty maids all in a row" refer to her four ladies in waiting.

Guildford, England

Hush-a-bye baby, on the tree top,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,
Down will come baby, cradle and all.

There seems to be an English and an American Indian origin to this nursery rhyme. I'll go with the English one, which suggests it dates from the time when women working in hop fields tied their babies' cradles to the branches of trees, allowing the wind to rock them to sleep.

Las Cruces, New Mexico

This quilt was designed and constructed this month for an expected grandchild. It is applique, pieced and hand quilted as shown with red thread to indicated the filght pattern of the ladybugs and drangonflies.

I'll gave y'all the "G" Rated version of this Nursery Rhyme. If you want the R rarted one check out nursery rhymes on Wikipedia! This was a fun challenge, both to intrpret the rhymes we knew as kids and to see the meaning behind them. I also learned a secret for keeping file sizes small. I colored this with fabric as I usually would and saw 56 fabrics in the sketch AFTER I compressed for email ... knew Andrea would shoot me!! So I started deleteing fabrics from the sketchbook and said "Yes" when the prompt bounced up and said I had used the fabric. I only kept the very soft background fabrics and allowed EQ to select a color very similar to the print I had selected. I wouldn't stitch it in solids, but it sure works for design purposes. This is best viewed with the outline patches and blocks turned off.

Haymarket, VA

Couldn't resist EQ Mouse going and Hickory Dickory Doc.

Northeastern Ontario

I had drawn some animals to put on the bottom of a sweat shirt so I just drew a few more animals for MacDonald's farm, added a barn and some flowers

Ontario, Canada

Aan original design

California
website

Poor Humpty is the latest victim of the lousy American healthcare industry.

Grand Ronde, OR

Mythical Horses fabric
OESD Mythical Horses CD

Adelaide, South Australia

Perth Western Australia

The "Three bags full" block is an original. The "Little boy down the lane" uses the "Man" from the classic applique EQ library. The rest are just taken straight from the EQ libraries.

Of course, the words are as follows:

Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full.
One for the master,
One for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.