My Trek quilt

[Unicron]

If anyone needs more proof that I'm a nerd, I humbly present something which is very special to me. My late grandmother had a gift for quilting, and I was very excited and grateful that she made this one just for me. It's a Star Trek quilt, and I do still sleep with it. We found a really nice pattern to use as the background, and were also able to include the blue, red and gold colors in. The ships are made of a metallic silvery material, and the insignia are metallic gold and silver. It was easier to simply all keep them the same color than to try and actually use the show colors, and I think it helps keep the visual look. There are also some symbols threaded into the outer corners, although I only took pics of the two Trek specific ones.

This gave me a good excuse to make my bed for once. Hope you all like it.

Full shot (mostly)
Enterprises. At the time this was made, around '94, TNG was nearing its finale. I didn't have great views of the TOS Enterprise, which is why it looks more like the TMP era one. But it's supposed to be the classic TOS version.

Inner corner insignia:

Starfleet
Klingon
Romulan
Ferengi. Kind of the only other species symbol I had available, though in retrospect I might have used the Cardassian symbol instead. But it still works.

Outer corners:

The other two have more generic things threaded in them.

TOS command badge
UFP symbol

 

[TheSeeker]

Sweet! I wish my Grandmothers had lived long enough to do something like that for me.

Is that a waterbed by any chance?

 

[JNG]

If there are any other quilts in the world with Ferengi symbols on them, there can't be very many of them.

 

[Unicron]

No, I'm afraid it's just a normal bed.

 

[Praetor]

As someone who can't sew at all, well done! I wish I had one!

 

[Unicron]

I've always taken good care of it, and it's stayed together really well for 15 years. This is the sort of gift that only comes from the heart. It's not all that thick, but it works well as a top blanket with something a little bulkier under it. The big quilt I use happens to be green and yellow, so you can see a little of it peeking out.

 

[Praetor]

My grandmother was excellent at crocheting stuff... throws and such. My mom is good at it too but doesn't do it as much. It seems like more of these art forms are being lost as previous generations pass.

 

[Mallory]

That's an awesome quilt Unicron. I'm impressed and more than a little jealous. Take good care of it, OK? Because you're one very lucky guy to have something like that.

 

[Unicron]

I know it. And I do. My grandmother was a very special person, and I'm glad to have been able to spend part of my life with her and my grandfather.

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

Sweet, I like it!

 

[Wrongway Janeway]

Talk about a one-of-a-kind gift!! That is awesome, Unicron.

And you obviously had a one-of-a-kind grandmother to make that for you.

 

[Kira's Mom]

That is awesome. I should get my mom to do a Trek quilt for me!

 

[Unicron]

I would imagine it would be fairly easy to make a kickass sci-fi quilt. We kept the general pattern pretty simple here, and just used material that looked good. I think the name of this starry pattern is "Cosmos" or something along that line, though I don't recall exactly. I don't really know how easy it would be to find. I kind of wanted something that reminded me of the elongated stars seen at warp.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

How beautiful!

Good thing that wasn't in-universe, though, or I suspect the Ferengi would've charged a pretty hefty fee for use of their symbol--and then you WOULD've ended up with a nice Cardassian sigil instead.

And how fortunate you are your grandmother was so willing to do that--I know I couldn't ask anyone in my family for that sort of thing (nerddom isn't exactly accepted in my house!).

 

[Klaus]

Very impressive!

 

[S'kai]

Very nice.

I have a less sophisticated quilt done by my daughter several years ago.

 

[Unicron]

That's very cool.

 

[Shawnster]

Was grandma a Trekkie? (Trekker... whatever).

My grandmother knitted, crocheted and sewed all the time but I don't think she would have gotten those details like that (both Enterprises, correct emblems, etc...)

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Wow...That's so neat! I'm very impressed!

 

[EmperorKalan]

If anyone needs more proof that I'm a nerd, I humbly present something which is very special to me.

I can't top that, but maybe I can get runner-up:

For my 21st birthday, a friend who had a hobby of making custom decorated cakes presented me with a Klingon battlecruiser cake. Not just a drawing in icing, mind you, but a fully-edible 3-D model! I wish I knew which storage box I have the photo of it in.

Nerd that I am, I of course have a set of Klingon D7 deckplans. A co-conspirator of hers borrowed them several months earlier and they made copies. Each deckplan copy was then used as a cutting template on thin sheets of brownies, building the whole thing deck by deck (and resting on a bed of regular devil'sfood cake dark-chocolate-frosted, with white "star" dots to serve as a base and keep it level. The "wings" and nacells hung off the sides). I was told the hardest part was trying to get the hull frosting the proper shade of battleship gray.

A pity it had to be destroyed, but hey, it was a birthday cake!