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Tropical Garden Hearts
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I am blessed to have some really great appliqué friends who help me when I’m putting my books together. I hand them a set of the designs and tell them to do whatever they like, as long as the setting is simple. I’m so grateful to these quilters. First of all, it is such an exciting and gratifying thing to see one’s designs on paper turned into beautiful, not to mention, real, quilts! Secondly, now there are styles, sensibilities, and fabric choices that are different from mine. Others make fabulous things that I could never have come up with myself, and that helps the quilter who is looking at my books.
When I was working on Growing Hearts to Appliqué, Pam Crooks agreed to make an example. I was wowed with the result! I named her piece “Tropical Garden Hearts” because of the hot colors. This quilt appears as inspiration in Growing Hearts to Appliqué.
An avid appliquér, Pam has several methods in her bag of tricks. For this wall quilt, she traced around freezer-paper templates, cut out the pieces, then removed the templates. She placed the motifs by eye (wow), pinned everything on, and needle-turned. The stems were done the same way, using no special tool or gadget. My hat’s off to you, Pam!
Pam is known to use black backgrounds to splendid effect. Here, the black sets off the glowing colors beautifully. Pam lives in Soquel, California, and can never be found without an appliqué project or her extensive thread collection. You’ll see more of her work here in the future.
Until next time,
Kay