A lily this time! But a different lily than in Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt. I’d never heard of a “Lemon Lily“, so I looked it up online (not an affiliate link). I think I’ve always called these Day lilies.
Block #18 ~ Lemon Lily
April 2, 1932
The tiger lily had proved such a favorite that Nancy decided she would design another lily for the flowers in the garden bouquet quilt. This time she chose the lemon lily, that pale yellow flower which is so fragrant and so enticing on a hot midsummer’s night. This time she has designed the lily with its petals open to the breezes.
There are three parts to the flower, two leaves and a stem. The stem is made preferably from bias tape in the same shade of green as is used for the leaves.
The bias tape is safe to use since it is made form fast color material. It is easy to manipulate since it is cut on the bias. Then, too, since the edges are turned in ready for use it is more expeditiously put on.
The upper triangle of white which has been seamed onto the lower triangle of the pieced urn is ready for the lily and the two appliqued birds.
The patterns for urn and for birds were given early in the quilt series. If you do not have those or any of the back flower patterns send to your newspaper for them. A small notice is printed each week telling you how you may obtain the back copies.
Most quilt club members keep their patterns in the Nancy Page quilt scrap book. This is made form a pattern designed by Nancy and may be procured from your paper also. The group help a discussion as to the advisability of using plain or figured material for the lily. Nancy voted in favor of the plain. She wanted a pale yellow for the open part of the flower and a darker shade for the lower part.
She said that this flower always was of a solid color which was one of the features which distinguished it from the cousin, the tiger lily.
By this time you are surely used to the best procedure for making the design. First, cut the picture along with its accompanying illustrations, from paper. Second, trace flower leaves and stem lightly on the white triangle, third trace the design onto light weight cardboard. Cut out the various parts.
You will note the dotted lines going through some of the petals. These indicate the overlapping of material. It is best to allow as much as is shown, for if the pattern is cut too close to finished shape it is apt to pull out of position.
In cutting the cloth be sure to allow one-quarter inch for turning under on all sides. The raw edges are turned under, basted and pressed in place.
Then the pieces are pinned on the white triangle as indicated by the faint tracery. By using a slanting, invisible hemming stitch the pieces are appliqued in place. The stamens are worked as in the tiger lily with fast color embroidery cotton.
If, by any chance, you are using buttonhole stitch to applique the pieces, then you make no allowance for turning under edges since the button holing covers the raw edges.
The two birds are appliqued as they stand pertly and meekly on the edge of the urn and then the eighteenth block is finished. This leaves two more flower blocks. The women wanted to know what flowers these would be. Nancy said one was the earliest flower to shoe its little head in the spring and the other was springy, too. This kept the members guessing until they met the following week.
“Garden Bouquet quilt block pattern, lemon lily” Newspapers.com, Edmonton Journal, April 2, 1932, https://www.newspapers.com/article/edmonton-journal-garden-bouquet-quilt-bl/163509493/
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