The Appliqué Society

16 Pages·2016·5.47 MB·English

by  Barbara Clucas

T A S
he ppliqué ociety
Our Mission is to Promote, to Teach, to Encourage

the Love of ALL Types of Appliqué in Quilting
www.theappliquésociety.org
July/Aug 2016 — Volume19 - Number 6
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Meet the Quiltmaker. . . Nancy

Nancy V. Enault was born and raised right outside of Baltimore, Maryland, thus the name
Lady Ba ltimore Designs. She took up needle turn appliqué, mostly self-taught, after mov-
ing to California for her husband’s career transfer. Before that, she was a Program Manag-
er for a defense contractor in the Virginia area. She has taught needle turn appliqué and
appliqué workshops in both California and now in northern Alabama where she and her
husband currently live with their three beautiful and spoiled Golden Retrievers, Beau, Re-
my, and Luc. She loves designing appli-
qué blocks and is always planning the
next quilt, and especially loves choosing
fabrics. Living in the South is providing
endless inspiration for appliqué projects -
such as magnolia and pink dogwood blos-
soms. The last project she shared with
TAS was the BOM Birthstone Teacups
which was featured in the newsletter for
several months.
In this issue, Nancy is sharing her quilt
and ‘baby bird block’ that she used on the
borders in the corners of her quilt. Also
included is the pattern for the ‘baby bird
block’ so it can be copied and used.
Thanks, Nancy
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WHAT’S INSIDE:
From the Editor. . . WHAT’S INSIDE

First of all and most important is that we need the
Met the Quilter p 1
members who have a pattern or design, for a block
Nancy Enault
or a quilt that you would like to have published in

the newsletter to send them in to me. Also news as
From the Editor p 2
to what is going on in your Chapters. You all are Barbara Clucas
out there busy sewing away on some project, so
From the President
share it with rest of the appliqué community so we
Sherri Fields p 3
can brag for you about your accomplishments.

Now I guess I have to brag about my latest accom- Nancy’s Quilt p 4

plishment. The quilt top ‘Bountiful Baskets’, de-
The Baby Bird Pattern p 5
signed by Pearl Pereira is finished. There are 50
Nancy Enault
small baskets each with a flower representing the
The Baby Bird Block p 6
each state flower. Under each basket I carefully

printed the name of the state to which the flower be-
Trip to Perth p 7
longs.

Daisy Basket p 8
All the basket blocks and the blocks in between the
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baskets were made from fabric from my stash. Be-
Daisy Basket Pattern p 9-10
fore I made each flower I looked it up on the inter-

net and checked to see the colors of the flowers.
Posy Basket p 11
Sometimes my printer doesn’t give me the best of
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col or and for many of the flowers I found the colors
Posy Basket Pattern p 12– 13
came in a range which gave me more choices in fab-

ric.

Also all 50 flowers are repeated on the quilt either Membership Application p 15

on the border or in the center Basket.
Contacting TAS p 16
Here are two of the state baskets;

Do you have an item for the

newsletter?

Please contact Barbara Clucas,
editor at:
newsletter@the appliquésociety.org

Missing your newsletter?
Contact Membership at:
membership@theappliquésociety.org
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F rom the President. . .

It’s summer time and the living is…hot?
At least it’s really hot (and humid) in North Carolina. I know summer can be a busy time
for everyone with vacations and gardens and the kids and grandkids out of school. It’s real-
ly easy to get caught up in all the “busy-ness” and forget to take time for us.
I never really considered how important “me time” is until a recent seminar I attended em-
phasized it. It was, ironically, a seminar I had to attend
for my “real” job. You don’t think about “me time”
when you’re at your place of employment. However,
the speaker did a great job at explaining how time spent
on things you enjoy actually enhances and improves
your life in every other area and makes you more pro-
ductive.
Now if I can only figure out a way to bring my sewing
machine to the office and explain how spending my
lunch hour appliquéing will actually make me a better
CFO.
Let me encourage you to take time for yourself this
summer and work on your quilts and appliqué. The
great thing about hand appliqué is that it’s pretty porta-
ble and can go on that vacation with you. A few minutes stitching here and there is a won-
derful way to relax!
Also, please keep us updated with any of your information that has changed. We’re com-
municating electronically now, so if your email has changed, please contact us and let us
know your new email address. If you move, we would also like to update your new snail
mailing address in our records. Since we’re emailing pretty much exclusively, it’s important
to make sure that TAS is in your contact list so that the email doesn’t relegate itself to your
spam folder.
Finally, for membership renewals please renew through our website. If you feel antsy about
using that, send a check or money order only to our PO Box. After July 15th, please do not
send credit or debit card information to the PO Box. Since we’ve changed our website and
accounting, renewals done through credit cards or debit cards must be performed through
our website.

Love and Stitches,
Sherri
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Nancy shares her quilt . . .

I had an amazing length of turquoise and brown toile fabric that I couldn't bear to cut up
into tiny pieces. I looked for a pieced quilt that I could showcase that fabric, and found
it in Starlight Path from the book Nine-Patch Extravaganza by Judy L. Laquidara (by
permission). I used the center section and changed the borders and added my Baby Bird
blocks in the four corners. This is truly one of my favorite quilts.

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Hints of tips for using the pattern. . .
If you trace the pattern to template plastic, you can have the baby bird face in either direction.
Choose your favorite appliqué technique; my blocks were done in needle turn.
I used five fabrics in this block. One for the background - which is actually white roses - toile for the
leaves, and the remaining three fabrics were used in the baby bird. I'm a huge believer in fussy cutting to
get the effect you want. The brown in the branch, the tail, and the wing were all cut from the same fabric. I
used the petal shapes in the brown fabric to (hopefully) give the illusion of separate feathers in the wing.
The main body of the bird was done in turquoise polka dot fabric and creamy white polka dot fabric. The
small white ruff piece by the baby bird's eye was tea dyed to stand out from the main body of the bird.
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Could the pattern be larger?
An old art teacher of mine once advised not to draw people, animals or objects larger than life
-sized. I've remembered that and stuck with it, so I'd recommend making multiple blocks -
four or six - for a baby bird wall hanging - however, the design certainly could be enlarged if
you wished.

Embellishing the bird block. . .
. I used a snippet of ultra-suede for the baby bird beak and embroidered a line across it. The
tiny stems to the leaves were stem stitched using two strands of brown embroidery thread.
The outline stitch in turquoise was used to highlight the wing from the body. A tiny black
seed bead was used for the baby bird eye.

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Barbara Dieges Patterns Continued From Last Month.

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