Friday, November 14, 2014

Friday Flowers 11-14-14

Flowers on quilts go back hundreds of years, so this week I decided to share some flower quilts instead of just pictures of flowers.  Quilt makers use many  different techniques and I am fond of pieced quilts, so these are pieced.  


"Summer Beauties" Ruth McDowell 2011 31” x 30”
Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted
Hand embroidered embellishments. 


"Mum at Dusk" Letitia Chung 2007  56"W x 46"L
Machine Pieced (background), Hand Appliqued (flower), Machine Quilted
I photographed this quilt way back in 2007 at PIQF.  I think it is an exceptional image of a chrysanthemum.  



“Summer Lily”  Ruth B. McDowell  2004  58“W x 70”L
Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted
{Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection)


"Streamside"  Del Thomas  1997  57"W x 40"L
Yellow and blue flower blocks were made using Ruth McDowell's  Symmetry technique and then incorporated into  a pieced background.  Machine Quilted.  Embroidered embellishment. 


A more traditional pieced flower from a quilt by Sandy Klop  2013