Beautiful Botanicals: 45 Appliqué Flowers & 14 Quilt Projects
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Plant an indoor garden with a bounty of lyrical appliqué designs. All the project patterns are interchangeable, so you can create endless combinations of flowers and leaves. See how color-saturated cottons, vibrant silks, and tone-on-tone chintzes breathe new life into botanical appliqué.
• 14 sophisticated floral appliqué projects include pillows, table runners, and small tapestry-style quilts and wall hangings
• Full-size templates for 45 appliqué flowers, 2 butterflies, and 5 borders
• Stitch up the projects as shown, or mix-and-match patterns to create your own masterpiece
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Beautiful Botanicals - Deborah Kemball
Text copyright © 2011 by Deborah Kemball
Artwork copyright © 2011 by C&T Publishing, Inc.
Publisher: Amy Marson
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kemball, Deborah.
Beautiful botanicals : 45 appliqué flowers & 14 quilt projects / Deborah Kemball.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-57120-961-0 (soft cover)
1. Appliqué--Patterns. 2. Quilting--Patterns. 3. Flowers in art. I. Title.
TT779.K46 2011
746.44’5--dc22
2010021402
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Dedication
For Benj, Nick, Hugo, Max, and Gus, with my love
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Den Haan & Wagenmakers BV in Amsterdam for their kind donations of great quantities of gorgeous red tone-on-tone chintz.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
THE BASICS
Part 1: THE FLOWERS
Baltimore Beauty Flower
Bluebells
Chrysanthemum
Dahlia
Daisy
Forget-Me-Not
Fuchsia (Single and Double)
Grapes / Wisteria / Hanging Blooms
Iris
Lily
Michaelmas Daisy / Coneflower
Mimosa / Floral Spray / Berries
Pansy
Peony
Pomegranate
Star Flower
Stargazer Lily
Sunflower / Aster / Zinnia
Sweet William
Whirled Flower
Easy Template Flowers
Butterfly
Nosegay
Additional Leaf Templates
Part 2: THE PROJECTS
17½″ × 17½″ Pillows
Butterfly and Berries Pillow
Autumn Tiger Lily with Asters Pillow
Forget-Me-Nots and Pansies Pillow
Baltimore Beauty and Bluebells Pillow
Spring Wreath Pillow
Harvest Wreath Pillow
Jacobean Tree of Life Wallhanging
Star Flower Heart Wallhanging
Mexican Heart Wallhanging
Vine Fruits Table Runner
Floral Sampler Wallhanging
Indian Garden Wallhanging
Jacobean Sampler Wallhanging
Floral Fantasy Wallhanging
Part 3: THE BORDERS
Simple 1″ Sawtooth Border
Simple Sawtooth with Circles Border
Simple Daisy and Hearts Border
Fuchsia Border and Corner Design
Chrysanthemum Border
GALLERY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PREFACE
Like many other quilters, I trod a fairly intensive path of embroidery, knitting, and tapestry before discovering quilting. While living in Eindhoven in the south of the Netherlands and being heavily pregnant with our third son, I passed a quilt shop and was awed by the baby quilt in the window. Intrigued, I went in and was dazzled by the huge array of fabrics and quilts on display. I left with a large bag of fat quarters and instructions for my first quilt. The die was cast. I dropped my knitting needles, tapestry needles, and everything else and became addicted to fabric and quilts.
After our time in the Netherlands, my husband’s work took us to Costa Rica, where I found a treasure trove of discount fabric shops selling quilting fabric from the United States. Nearly all the fabric was flawed in some way or other, so I could buy yards of fabric for cents at a time. Liberated by the cheap prices, I became an enthusiastic machine piecer, averaging one newly made quilt every three weeks. But my machine, hammering away through triangles and squares, added the agony and frustration of mismatched seams and made me tense and dissatisfied. I decided that perhaps I wasn’t cut out for machine piecing and quilting; as a result, I became very keen on hand quilting. I made a number of self-designed white-on-white wholecloth quilts and strippies that remain some of my favorites to this day. Their Spartan white simplicity worked well in the tropics where, with so much riotous color of flowering trees, bougainvillea, and hibiscus going on outside our windows, we preferred simple cool interiors.
By this time, I was beginning to consider appliqué. Several years earlier, I had made five small appliqué blocks, which I had designed myself. These blocks were heavily influenced by my previous designs for tapestries and were quite unlike any traditional appliqué normally associated with quilting. I decided that during our move to Canada, when I foresaw long periods in small hotel rooms, I would make a hand-appliquéd Baltimore Album–style quilt. I looked at pictures of Baltimore quilts online; however, though I could appreciate the huge amount of work that had gone into all of them, I found their designs very busy. So instead, I decided to alternate the wreaths and hearts with individual flowers.
Completely by accident, when playing around with the individual flower designs in my Baltimore Album quilt, I became fascinated with the new patterns made by repeating the flower along various axes of symmetry. I decided to bring these designs into the quilt too. By the time I had completed the quilt, I knew that in appliqué