I keep expecting flowers from Nancy’s first quilt, Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt, to be used. So far, each of the flowers in this quilt are unique from that one.
Block #4 ~ Wild Rose
As the members of the Nancy Page Quilt Club came to attention for this, the eighth meeting of the club, they heard the strains of MacDowell’s “To a Wild Rose.” One quick-witted member exclaimed, “I know what flower we are making today. It’s the wild rose.” And sure enough it was. Nancy had made hers of a fast colored sprigged print with a white ground and pale pink flowers. But she might just as well have chosen pale pink in a solid color. In either case the centre is made of large French knots done in fast colored embroidery cotton.
The leaves are done in green and the stem is either cut from a piece of the same green material or is made from bias tape, for then the stem is always even in width.
Of course the whole flower may be done in outline stitch. Or the colors may be put on by using crayons in the correct colors. To do this the design is faintly traced onto the white triangle and then the outlines are filled in with crayon. Next the material is pressed with a hot iron. This melts and sets the color from the crayon.
The flower may be appliqued in either one of two ways.
If the pieces are cut the exact size given they may be placed on the cloth according to the small inset pattern and then fastened with fine buttonhole stitch done in fast color embroidery cotton, the color of the material.
Or they may be cut one quarter inch larger all around than the pattern. Then the raw edges are turned under, basted and pressed. After laying in place on the white triangle the pieces are fastened by using a slanting, fine or invisible hemming stitch.
When the members came to club they had already pieced the urn which makes the lower half of the diamond block, seamed on to its upper edge the triangle of white, the piece 12-1/2 by 12-1/2 by 17-1/2 inches.
The birds may or may not have been appliqued before the flower is put on. The patterns for the birds and for the pieces of the urn have already been given in this series. A wise quilt maker has stored them away for future use in her Nancy Page quilt scrap book.
By tracing the outline faintly on the white, one has a pattern to go by. Then by tracing the pattern onto a piece of light weight cardboard one has a pattern which may be cut and used as a guide. And this still allows one to keep the original with its attached directions in the scrapbook.
Next week comes the first block in the second row. It’s a trillium.
“Garden Bouquet Quilt ~ Block 4 ~ Wild Rose” Newspapers.com, Edmonton Journal, December 19, 1931, https://www.newspapers.com/article/edmonton-journal-garden-bouquet-quilt/161536006/
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