Monday 25 July 2011

William Morris Appliqué


This beautiful appliqué quilt belongs to Margaret.  The pattern had appliqué on alternate blocks, but Margaret decided to piece plain blocks instead.  This left more scope for the quilting. 

We decided to quilt feathers around the appliqué ignoring the piecing which allows the feathers to flow across the quilt top.  I love the effect, and was very happy with how this quilt turned out.


9 comments:

  1. I think you do the most divine feathers Desley, and it really looks wonderful on this quilt.

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  2. You did a beautiful job. A William Morris designs deserve the feathers and detail to the applique. Margaret did a wonderful job also. I am a big fan of W.M. designs. I would be very proud to own this quilt.

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  3. Beautiful quilt and the feathers really compliment the applique.

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  4. Wow. I love how the stippling makes the applique pop and "features" each image inside the pretty feathering.

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  5. Wow, this is a beautiful quilt and your quilting is out of this world. Love all your feather quilting.

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  6. All of these Hill quilts are so gorgeous! Your quilting has a lot to do with that. Just love looking at them.

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  7. Just randomly following links I found your exceptionally inspiring quilting! You are an extremely talented woman! If I could design the quilting like this one... I would want to do nothing else! Just really really lovely.
    Sincere good wishes for your future projects and I will start following you today! :-) Thank you for sharing your talents with the world!!
    Candice

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