Wildflower Album: Applique' & Embroidery Patterns [Paperback]

Bea Oglesby (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2000

The next best thing to a meadow full of wildflowers is a home graced with quilted botanical designs. Choose your favorite wildflower to make a single applique or embroidered block for a pillow, a small wallhanging, or a medallion center for a larger piece. Add sashing and borders to create a variety of quilt sizes. Some blocks, such as Wild Ginger, have as few as 10 pieces; others, like Wild Lupine or Texas Bluebonnet, have as many as 91 pieces. Appliqued blocks can also be embellished with embroidery. Each of the 40 block designs has a full-sized pattern. Color notes for fabric selection, descriptions, and characteristics of each of the flowers from nature are included. AUTHORBIO: Before Bea started quilting in the mid 1980s, she was not familiar with quilting in any form. However, she had a background in home economics. She also studied weaving and oil and watercolor painting, and she earned a certificate from the Sogetsu School of flower arranging. After Bea started quilting, and especially doing applique, she discovered how the painting and flower-arranging media were interchangeable with quilting designs in color and form. REVIEW: Bea Oglesby draws upon her many years of experience and expertise to show how to add sashing and borders to create a variety of quilt sizes. The informative, easy-to-follow text is enhanced with color notes for fabric selections, descriptions and characteristics of each of the flowers modeled from nature. -Reviewers Bookwatch, January 2001

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About the Author

Before Bea started quilting in the mid 1980s, she was not familiar with quilting in any form. However, she had a background in home economics, and with three daughters, she became an experienced seamstress. She also studied weaving and oil and watercolor painting, and she earned a certificate from the Sogetsu School of flower arranging. After Bea started quilting, and especially doing applique, she discovered how the painting and flower-arranging media were interchangeable with quilting designs in color and form. Since the mid-1990s, she has concentrated on her own designs of flowers, both cultivated and wild, and has taught and lectured extensively for quilt guilds in Kansas and Missouri.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: American Quilter's Society (September 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574327593
• ISBN-13: 978-1574327595
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #878,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An informative, easy-to-follow text, January 23, 2001

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This review is from: Wildflower Album: Applique' & Embroidery Patterns (Paperback)

With Bea Oglesby's Wildflower Album: Applique & Embroidery Patterns, the needlecrafter can chose her own favorite wildflower to make a singe appliqued or embroidered block for a pillow, small wall hanging, or medallion center for a larger piece. Bea Oglesby draws upon her many years of experience and expertise to show how to add sashing and borders to create a variety of quilt sizes. Each of the 40 block designs showcased in Wildflower Album has a full-sized pattern. The informative, easy-to-follow text is enhanced with color notes for fabric selection, descriptions, and characteristics of each of the flowers modeled from nature. Whether a novice beginner or a seasoned quilter, Wildflower Album is a welcome addition to the needlecrafter's reference shelf.

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book, January 29, 2011

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This review is from: Wildflower Album: Applique' & Embroidery Patterns (Paperback)

I received this book today and am so pleased with the patterns. I know I will enjoy making the Wildflower quilt.