Wildflowers: Designs for Appliqué and Quilting

By Carol Armstrong

Book Overview

Sew beautiful wildflower gardens using Carol Armstrong's original appliqu patterns. Nature springs to life in quilts, wallhangings, and home decorations as you mix and match twenty-four wildflower patterns to create your own vision of the great outdoors.

Instructions are provided for ten projects, with explanations of Carol's methods for light box appliqu , pre-appliqu , and the needle turn stitch. Also included are Carol's innovative techniques for free-form quilting designs that simulate rain, wind, sunlight, rocks, leaves, and other elements found in our natural world.

Delicate watercolor illustrations throughout the book highlight the individual flowers.

Includes the wildflower patterns: Bleeding Heart, Bloodroot, Blue Flag, Blue Flax, Bunch Berry, Buttercup, California Poppy, Colorado Columbine, Fireweed, Fringed Gentian, Hare Bell, Indian Paintbrush, Lady's Slipper, Lupine, Marsh Marigold, Orange Hawkweed, Ox-Eye Daisy, Shooting Star, Swamp Rose, Trillium, Trout Lily, Violet, Wild Columbine, and Wood Lily.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571200452
• ISBN13: 9781571200457
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: C&T Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

inspiring

Knowing little about the book, it arrived in excellent condition and was filled with inspiring concepts for what I was looking to accomplish. i am very happy with this. And the seller was quick with the shipment and the book was in perfect condition.

Breathtaking Applique

Carol Armstrong has amazing talent; I'm so impressed! Using tiny bits of fabric, she creates masterpieces of floral arrangements. They truly take your breath away. She implies that I (her reader) can create the same by following her instructions. No way. It's gracious of her to be so inspiring and encouraging, but you need TALENT and a high level of skill to make these wallhangings. They look simple, but they are not - they're very sophisticated. I don't believe the average quilter would succeed with these. Her unrealistic expectations (and giving false hope?)is the only drawback to this book.

Beautiful applique

The applique designs are lovely, realistic, and disarmingly simple. Watch out for small applique pieces. The individual flower designs seem to me to work better than the larger composition pieces shown, but all in all a refreshing new look.