There isn’t much story in today’s article. I do find it interesting that subdued colors are encouraged. When I imagine 1932 pastel colors come to mind. I will have to research to see if bright colors were a thing then.
Block #14 ~ Poppy
It’s a quick jump that quilt makers take. Last week they were busily ushering in one of the first flowers of the spring – the daffodil, and today they are in the hey day of summer with its glorious poppies.
This poppy may be developed in pinks, soft reds or in yellows or soft orange. It all depends upon the scraps and the looks of the colors in the quilt.
Nancy cautioned the members against making any one flower of too noisy or strong a color. When that is done, the one flower stands out like a sore thumb. It is best, the club members found, to keep all the colors rather subdued.
This flower has a number of pieces – four are used in the flower, two little sepals and two leaves, as well as stem. The stem is easy, since that is made from bias tape. The leaves are of same shade of green as stem. The sepals may be of darker green. The petals are of two shades. The back one, shown as a shaded piece in the pattern, is of a darker shade than the three front petals. The dotted lines indicated the overlapping of pieces. It is wise to cut these as shown in pattern for straight edges or plenty of underlap help to hold the pieces in shape. The members had the white triangle ready. This is cut 12-1/2 by 12-1/2 by 17-1/2 inches. It is seamed on the seventeen inch side to the pieced urn block which has been prepared ahead of time. The pattern for the urn was given at the start of this quilt. The members used the urn pattern every time they prepared a new block. It is used twenty times in all the quilt. This is the fourteenth flower block.
The birds, patterns for which were given earlier also, are always appliqued to the upper white triangle in which is placed the flower. The method of procedure had become a habit by this time with all the members. First they cut the pattern, with its accompanying directions from the paper. Next they traced the flower lightly onto the upper triangle of white. Thirdly they traced the design onto light-weight cardboard. Fourthly, they placed the original pattern for safekeeping in the Nancy Page scrapbook. Next they cut out the cardboard pattern into its parts. They laid these on the color-fast material and cut the pieces allowing one-quarter inch on all sides for turning under raw edges. When these were turned under they were basted and pressed. Then they laid them in place on the white triangle, following the light tracery made at the start. The pieces were then appliqued with slanting, hemming stitch. The block was complete when the flower, its leaves and stem were growing from the urn and when the admiring birds were appliqued beside the flower.
“Garden Bouquet Quilt, Poppy, image” Newspapers.com, Edmonton Journal, February 27, 1932, https://www.newspapers.com/article/edmonton-journal-garden-bouquet-quilt-p/162889548/
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