need help please.

Canada
February 15, 2007 12:44pm CST
my cousins wedding is comming up. i received a letter in a mail with a quilting square asking to put something special on it for her. it could be a memory to help her remember me by or something like that. or even a quote or somehting that doesn't have anything to do with me. the only thing is. i haven't spoken to this person since we were little kids. must be about 13 years or so now. even then we were never close. i'm the black sheep of the family and never was around my family much. i need help or ideas of what i could do. thanks
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15 responses
• United States
16 Feb 07
you could iron on something to the square with the good transfer paper they sale at Micheals or any other craft shop. A psicture of you two when you were small or of you grown up or if you want to have a wicked sense a humor a black sheep. :) just kidding. you can put anything on the square favorite animal flower, butterfly just what says you?
• United States
16 Feb 07
I'd probably just put a love or marriage quote on it. It wouldn't be personal, but it doesn't sound like you have a personal relationship with her. The black sheep idea is cute, but not appropriate. :\
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@theone3nu (598)
• India
16 Feb 07
so keep something valuable so that they will remmember forever. put ur cousins wedding card in that box with some amount of money. so ur inviting those unknown people. all the best.
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@onabreak2 (1161)
• United States
16 Feb 07
I dont think I would go to the wedding. I mean really it is almot like a stranger.That is a pet peeve of mine when people invite you to a wedding where you hardly know the person. It is asking for gifts if you ask me.
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• Canada
16 Feb 07
i agree with you but it is family so i'm probably going to end up feeling obligated to go.
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@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
16 Feb 07
Just x stitch a heart with their initials in it or something....something that is fairly generic...then you wont get yelled @ for not doing anything :-)
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• United States
16 Feb 07
Pull out one of Sheaksepeare's love poems. They always come in handy at a time like this. Or if you have a photo of you and your cousin from when you were a child you could have the picture transposed on to the quilt fabric. Target and places like that do that inexpensively.
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@Bee1955 (3882)
• United States
15 Feb 07
Go to a sewing store and buy one of those embroidered patches like a flower or better yet, a smiley face and sew it onto the quilt piece. Or if you have fabric paint, paint one on. Look, someone wants you back in the family surroundings - they came forward, so do a nice gesture back.
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• United States
15 Feb 07
That is a great idea, I wish that I had thought of something so creative when I got married. This is a perfect chance for you to keep a connection with your family, and still be yourself. I think that you should enjoy it, and really be as nonjudgemental as possible, and what I mean by this, is to really think of it as something that you are doing for a couple (any couple that is just getting married, and also, to imagine what you would have loved to receive). For example, you can find a really nice quote about marriage and the joining of two lives, or you can put something with hearts on it, that is really nice. Also, I believe you could add some really pretty decorations from the craft store, you could browse around and see what they have to work with, that will give you ideas. The best thing, is to have it look very elegant, and thoughtful, because the last thing any bride wants to experience is that you don't care that it is her wedding, and that it meant nothing to you. When I was getting married, I felt a lot of people were very agenda-orientated, they just couldn't enjoy themselves.
@harwoodkp (285)
• United States
16 Feb 07
Find the use of an emobroidery machine. Have a blacksheep put on the block with your name. LOL and kidding if you dont like that. You can have anything that is special or connected to you put on the block. this is very easy to do and it will help your cousin remember you. I know we enjoy our wedding block quilt a lot.
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@lucy121 (36)
• Nigeria
16 Feb 07
First you need to attend the wedding (very important)and get him/her a very beautiful gift that he/she will forever remember in her life time. gifts like a washing mechine, a nice sound system set or a nice LG DVD player
• Canada
16 Feb 07
i'm sorry but i don't think you read the question properly. i need advice on making a quilt square. not about gifts.
• Canada
15 Feb 07
hhm.. cant you barely rmember anythn since the both of you spoke? cause maybe you did somethn together that's quite memorable and you can came up on somethin by that..
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
15 Feb 07
Is there anything good that you remember of her when she was a little kid.?... surely you must have one happy thought? ....put that.. or why don't you ask your family about her life? maybe you can get some ideas from them. Good Luck.
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• Canada
15 Feb 07
i don't remeber too much from childhood. my mother didn't like her mother and wouldn't let me go over there. i think my mother was jelous of her mom. so we only saw each other at christmas meals at the grandparents. but i stoped going at about age 12.
• India
16 Feb 07
well, i ve a grt idea, i guess u ll like it, whtever present u give her, u better include a greetings card written totaly by u, which includes all the memories u can relate to her n all the precious days n events of her life, believe me this ll work, but since u ve already said tht u ve very lttle knowledge abt her life, i would say u ve to put little more effort to fill the greetings, trust me this ll b worth remembering, it ll b still better if u can narrate those things in poetic language.
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@nic_knick (739)
• China
16 Feb 07
good
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@brihanna (381)
• United States
16 Feb 07
Seeings how you have very few memories and were considered the black sheep, maybe you could find a nice quote about how important it is to keep in touch with family and continue family ties. It might help her with her own life ahead of her.