Garden Bouquet Quilt ~ Leaf Quilting Design

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A couple of changes on these posts going forward:

• I figured out that in all the formats for viewing the blog, the actual printed article could be made large enough to be read
• I will no longer be re-typing out the whole article
• I will finish out this sequence as just the articles, but am planning on going back to making the blocks as part of these posts
• I don’t think that I will be making them using the historical techniques as described in the articles. I think I will use more modern techniques. But I am also open to any suggestions that you may have.

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Today’s Article

I am not sure how many people are in Nancy’s quilt club right now. However, it says that Nancy has set up multiple quilting frames in her guest bedroom. Assuming that each member has made her own quilt, that could mean a very crowded room! It states that she wasn’t expecting company for “a week or two”. Last time I hand quilted a quilt, it took me most of a year to finish it. Granted, I only worked on it in the evenings because of working out of the home. It must have been the plan of “many hands make light work” to finish quilts quickly!

Supplies

I like how the type of pins, needles thread and batting are easily worked into the story.

• Heavy pins for pinning the quilt to the quilting frame
• “Betweens” needles for quilting
• Number 60 white thread
• Wool batting for interlining

It is nice that it is not assumed that readers will already know what to use to back the quilt.

• White gingham fabric of the same quality as used on top of quilt
• It will take 2 pieces that need to be seamed together
• Once seamed together it will measure 90″ x 108″ (which is the same as the quilt top )

I found it interesting that cotton (canton) flannel could have been used as batting. However, a puffy appearance of cotton or wool batt was desired.

Mounting quilt to frame

If you’d never mounted a quilt to a quilt frame, it would be easy to follow the instructions.

• Pieced bottom pinned to frame first with right side toward floor and wrong side up
• Batting rolled and spread evenly across
• Wrong, or seamed side, of top quilt laid on top of batting
• The top carefully stretched and pinned in place

Quilting

• Each pieced & appliqued block would be quilted around the entire outline, just outside the appliqueing. each leaf, flower, bird and urn framed in fine stitches.
• Diagonal lines, crossing diamond fashion, all through body of urn. the slant of stitches being decided by slant of base pieces of urns in the large diamond blocks, half & quarter diamond blocks would have the leaf pattern quilting
• 1/4 of pattern is given. It radiates from center, with 3 other leaves radiating from center to complete the diamond block.
• 2 leaves on 1/2 diamond blocks
• 1 leaf on 1/4 diamond corners
• The quilting patterns were traced onto tough tracing paper, pricked with pins and transferred onto fabric with stamping powder.
• The whole border was quilted in diamonds spaced 1″ apart.

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Next post will have another pattern for the quilting!