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Mar
29
Tea Garden
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Pam, you’ve done it again! Pam Crooks is one of the members of the small quilt group I’ve been stitching with for over 11 years. She’s a super-busy gal, working full-time and traveling for her position with a banking institution, plus participating in so many appliqué projects it could make your head spin. Yet she […]
Mar
21
Oriental Teapot
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The next quilt I’m showing you from Teapots 2 to Appliqué is very cool. Verona Flint hand-appliquéd a beautiful batik teapot with a shimmery gold handle and spout on plain white fabric, and handed it back to me. When I looked at it I immediately started brainstorming on a setting to show it off. Something […]
Mar
9
Blue Willow
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Blue Willow was my mother’s china pattern. Whenever I see it, it brings back warm memories of childhood. Imagine my delight when Reeze Hanson of Ottawa, Kansas, sent me pictures of a whole collection of Blue Willow teapots!
Here’s the story behind the quilts. As you’ll see, Reeze’s mother and mine shared an affinity for Blue […]
Mar
4
We all know the verse about the little “short and stout” teapot. My appliqué friend Shannon Wilkinson took some words from it and made the most adorable wall quilt with designs from Teapots 2.
Shannon used fusible machine appliqué for the teapot, the cups, and the letters. Too cute! This one appears in the book as […]
Dec
1
Happy December! Here’s a merry little Christmas story.
A couple years ago, Janet told me that my next project had to have chickens in it. Guess what my next book was… Christmas designs! I was scratching my head. Chickens… Christmas… Chickens… Christmas. And then it dawned on me… The Three French Hens!
Here’s my Christmas chicken, just […]
Nov
13
Pam’s at it again! My appliqué friend Pam Crooks has kindly made samples for several of my books. Here’s her elegant treatment of the poinsettia design in A Merry Little Christmas to Appliqué.
The rich fuchsia batik creates a sumptuous holiday look. Pam used a prepared-edge technique, using glue to turn the edges of the motifs […]
Oct
17
Counterpoint teapots
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My appliqué friend Janet Locey made a sample for my Teapots to Appliqué book using the “counterpoint” technique of reversing the values in alternating blocks.
Janet works only by machine and is masterful at a couple of different machine appliqué techniques. This one was done using freezer paper templates and glue stick to turn the […]
Sep
21
A teatime vignette
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Jean Post, one of my appliqué friends here in Santa Cruz, made this delightful scene using elements from Teapots to Appliqué. I call it “Afternoon at the Cabin,” because to me it looks like a lazy afternoon at a cabin by a lake, at just about teatime. The log cabin quilt on the wall is […]
Sep
4
Flowering Hearts
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Here’s a fantastic piece done by one of my appliqué friends, Janet Locey of San Juan Bautista, California, using her favorite blocks from Growing Hearts to Appliqué. Janet is a big fan of Civil War reproduction fabrics, and as you can see they created a warm Americana look for this charming wall quilt.
Janet does all […]
Aug
29
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 […]