Beautiful Botanicals: 45 Appliqué Flowers & 14 Quilt Projects“A wonderful way to bring more beauty into your life . . . sophisticated floral appliqué projects, varying in size from pillows to quilts.” —The Professional Quilter Magazine 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 |
Contents
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The Projects | 52 |
The Borders | 100 |
Gallery | 106 |
About the Author | 111 |
Pullout | 113 |
Legal Page | 139 |
Back Cover | 141 |
Common terms and phrases
3/8˝-wide bias strip add the appliqué Appliqué and add appliqué and embroidery appliqué information appliqué pieces Appliqué the pieces Appliqué the stem background fabric baste batting and backing beads binding strip buttonhole stitch C&T Publishing calyx Chrysanthemum circles Echo quilt embroidery as directed embroidery floss Enlarge placement diagram Enlarge the pattern Erase all pencil fat quarter Floral Sampler Floral Spray flower center Flowers pages 12–51 Fold under 1/4 foundation strips foundation triangles foundation-pieced freezer paper templates Fuchsia full-size design fussy cutting fussy-cut Layer with batting leaf lines and press Michaelmas Mylar and freezer Mylar templates oval pattern by 400 pencil lines petals placement diagram 200 prairie points Prepare the appliqué press carefully Press the seam quilt top raw edge Refer to pages running stitch seam allowance sew the binding stamen Stitch the binding strands of embroidery subcut top and bottom Trace the design trace the full-size Whirled Flower yard of fabric