Pansy Circle

Pansy Circle

I love pansies but have never included them in quilts before since they require either a printed fabric that has the pansy design and just happens to be the right size and color, or fabric embellishment. Since many of my designs are made into patterns, this can present difficulties for people who want to use the pattern. However, I decided to include them in this quilt and decided to do a lot of them! They form a ring around the center flower.
Two of them are shown in this photo:

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For the pink pansies I painted the darker color on to hand-dyed fabric. For the periwinkle pansies, I started with hand-dyed for the back unpainted petals. Then I found a fabric marker that is very similar in color and colored white fabric with the periwinkle color. The dark color around the centers is painted using fabric paint. The leaves were cut from pre-printed fabric.

Dahlia Flower Applique

 Dahlia Flower Applique

The center flower is stitched for the applique quilt! This is hand appliqued to the background. I stitched the flower together as a unit before stitching to the background. The background is pieced using paper piecing.

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The flower was in a photograph taken by my husband in the Valley Gardens in Harrogate, UK. It's stylized, but sets some of the color scheme for the rest of the quilt. This measures about 16" diameter.

Welcome!

Hi - Welcome to my new blog! 

If you applique, you know it takes a long time to complete a hand applique quilt. I am usually working on several at at time, so I thought I would share images of some of the pieces that I am working on.

I have finished designing an ambitious applique quilt that features a large number of different flowers, birds, and a few animals. For the first time I am combining fabric that has been embellished with paint, crayons, or fabric pastels. I will be posting images of the motifs over the next few months. Let me know what you think.
The first motif is a cardinal. He doesn't have legs yet because I will be embroidering them when he is added to the quilt.

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