A new block design inspired by the 1848 antique appliqué quilt featured in Barbara Burnham’s book, Baltimore Garden Quilt. Start as a beginner, or raise your appliqué skills to a new level. Barbara will share helpful ideas for choosing fabrics that blend well together. Plan traditional colors of red and green, or go wild from your fabric stash. Approach your appliqué with a plan – what comes first, next, last, and why. Learn to applique smooth inner and outer curves with freezer paper on top as a guide for needleturn. Master wavy U-curves on tulip buds, and gentle inner V-curves on full blooming tulips. Sew your leaves and flowers with sharp, pointy points, or softly pointed, as you wish. Try Barbara’s unique method to tame those points so they turn easily and securely, and techniques to minimize bulk and prevent fray. Choose from several methods to make stems. Discover tricks to arrange them in graceful curves, and form a perfect, never-ending circle.

Barbara uses a video projection system so everyone can see closeups. She will offer tips, tricks, and ideas to handle small appliqué pieces and shortcuts to make hand appliqué faster and neater.

Pattern/Handout Fee: $5.00 includes block pattern and printed instructions.

Supply List

Fabrics:

Background – 17” square, light, white, or subtle print

Stems and Leaves – 3/4 yard of one fabric or 3 fat quarters (18”x22”) of similar green prints.

Flower Petals – 12” square

Flower Centers – 8” square

General Supplies:

Appliqué needles: Sharps, size 12

Threads to match appliqué fabrics

Neutral or white 50-wt. sewing thread for basting

Fabric scissors: sharp, pointed scissors that cut all the way to the point

Paper scissors: sharp, pointed, for accurate cutting of freezer paper

Thimble

Freezer paper

Mechanical pencil (fine point 0.5 mm)

White 3/16” foamcore board at least 8”x8” (available from instructor)

Dritz® Ball Point Pins Size 17 – 1-1/16” (not the long quilter’s pins)

Removable Fabric Marker that shows up on your background fabric

Water soluble gluestick

Hera marker

Small rotary mat, cutter, rotary ruler

Flexible tape measure

Painter’s tape

Lightbox (optional)

    


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