Figurative Applique - Finally!

I'm very excited to be sharing this group of quilts that were started with our Cupcake Group of four friends in 2006.

  

My Quilt:  Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious:  86"x86"

I used all reproduction fabrics on a soft pink toile.  I made mine in 4 large square sections.

It was for this quilt that I designed and made my own super sized baptist fan stencil.   You can get one in my Etsy Shop along with a set of folk art patterns found in this quilt and others of mine.  Enter BLOG20 for a 20% discount good through the year end.

Our quilted were inspired by this quilt top  in the V&A Museum in London.

Kaffe Fassett created a quilt and pattern for his book Museum Quilts.

Mary Vaughan's Quilt:   63"x77"

Mary chose Red & White because she felt she didn't have a wide variety of reproduction fabrics.   I will admit that was sceptical but her quilt is spectacular!  Note the martini glasses and anchor.

Mary grew up in Ho Ho Kus so included this great Native American motif as well as a self silhouette.  

I love the variety in Mary's shapes like the egg and crown. 

Mary chose a wavy horizontal line for the quilting.   

Mary chose a beautiful Kaffe Fassett for her backing.   The black binding frames this special quilt wonderfully.

Susan's McDermott's Quilt:  Animal, Vegetable or Mineral 70"x75"

What I love about Susan's quilt is it is so unique and the border is just fabulous.    Susan arranged her around a center tree.  

Susan added many wonderful details in the quilting.   Her use of fabrics and colors are just amazing too.

Susan thought it would be fun to use motifs from the natural world.   

Lin McQuinston's Quilt:   Menagerie  51" x 71"

Lin pinned my quilt in 2009 and wrote me in 2018 when she started her quilt.   She used my patterns, Kaffe's and made her own with her grandchildren.

The background and border were gifted to her by a guild member who had passed away making it even more special.

Lin challenged herself to make mitered corners with the striped fabric and it sets the quilt off beautifully.

Lin's is beautifully machine quilted.  Here is the backing and label.

Jill's unfinished quilt.

I am working on Jill's.  She never liked the polkadot background,but I love it!  I plan to put a house in the center.   It was not with her materials, but I think that is what she intended.

Still need to embroider her hot air balloon lines.

Barbara Brackman featured some of our quilts in this post.

If you would like to see antique examples of this style of quilts you can read more on Barbara Brackman's blog post here and again here.

If you have made a quit like these, please share a photo with me at barb.vedder@gmail.com.   I'd love to see it.

Happy Friday!

xo