Appliqué, Appliqué, Appliqué – Jo Colwill

These five days will be spent starting with planning either a story/cornish housey type quilt; or a flower applique quilt mine will have cornwall and cornish scenes in mind!! The quilt can be as simple or as complex as you like, but choosing colours types and textures of fabric to tell the story, designing the blocks, machine piecing hand and machine quilting, to include hand and machine appliqué if required. You can copy my design adapt or make your own, it is hard to finish a quilt unless very small but you will get well into the project and learn new techniques and design ideas, advice on choosing colours, help with appliqué techniques and lots of useful tips to make a really special quilt.
 
 

STUDENT REQUIREMENTS

 
Basic sewing kit, to include Golden Eye appliqué needles,  small sharp scissors, threads, etcRotary cutting set (if available), paper & fabric scissors, threads to match fabricsREQUIREMENTS

Tracing paper or A1 layout pad, if wishing to alter basic design
Sewing Machine in good working order, including 1/4” foot (if available) also open appliqué foot number 20 if you have a Bernina this is good for machine blanket stitch

 
Requirements – DAISIES IN MAY

There will be several design options and all quilts can be adapted to small or large quilts:

Repeated daisy head – either appliquéd, Bondaweb or Stayflex onto squares – these can be limited colours on one background or multi check or patterned backgrounds with multi coloured daisies (this works well with flannels or wool)
Varying coloured daisies on calico or pale background with green stems and leaves – one fabric for background and scraps for daisies (fat q’s fine)
A strippy quilt with 3 rows of daisies, like a daisy chain

Three metres of background fabric (either calico or subtle pattern) This will make 5x 18” blocks and a small border
5m for King size quilt this includes the 5 x 18” blocks and a 12” daisy chain border
1m larger floral for large lattice
1.5m small stripe or dot, for small lattice, small border on edge of blocks before big border and binding.
Selection of greens, approx. 4 fat q’s for leaves and stems
Either one colour or selection for daisies – approx. 1 metre in total
Yellowy/gold for centre of daisy 1 fat Q
1/2 metre of Bondaweb or Stayflex if you wish to stick

Approx 12 mixed fat Q’s in tonal value, mixed patterns like stripe, spot, large and small floral check for infill around the centre daisy blocks

Eventually you will need 104” of backing fabric, this can be either calico or made of all bits and pieces to use up but not too dark so that it shows through to the front.
Either 104” square of polyester or cotton wadding but not too heavy for a big quilt.
Printed pattern and instructions £ 15.00
Approximate finished size of quiltQUILT

Selection of washed Fabrics – calico, muslin, light or dark plain or assortment of fabrics to use as base fabric (enough for quilt project if wishing to use matching calico or muslin throughout)

For appliqué: plains and prints, either traditional reds and green with highlights of blue and gold or multi-coloured or sorted into a particular selection of colours to suit student

Books or Pictures – for inspiration and ideas
The colour scheme is very personal so I probably need to talk to students individually about their requirements.

All the general sewing kit, black fine and think .05mm fibre pen tracing and layout pad as above.