Floral Dimensions: 20 Stunning 3D Flowers to Machine Applique

Description

Helps you create colourful and unique fabric flowers. This title features 20 dimensional flowers using machine quilting, patchwork and applique techniques. It offers ideas for using different colours or fabrics and how to incorporate each flower into a quilt block. Each design is accompanied by instructions, photography and full-size templates.|Flowers are perennial favourites in patchwork, applique and quilting. Pauline Ineson shows you how to create amazing three-dimensional flowers with machine quilting, patchwork and applique techniques. This garden of 20 irresistible fabric flowers includes pretty little marigolds, intricate fuchsias, stately foxgloves and elegant tulips. A wide variety of techniques are used to make the flowers, including ruching fabric, gathering and coiling fabric and many applique techniques. Detailed step-by-step artwork and gorgeous photography beautifully illustrate Pauline's innovative designs, which are accompanied by full-size templates. There are also instructions for making stems and various leaf shapes. Variations for each flower show how you can adapt the colours and styles to create your own unique versions. The book also includes examples of stunning quilt blocks incorporating the flower designs for added inspiration. Floral Dimensions is a beautiful book that will inspire you to create your own delightful bouquet of flowers that you can use to adorn all sorts of lovely sewing projects.

Pauline Ineson is a teacher and designer of courses for creative sewing machine techniques. Her 'heirloom' quilt won two first prizes at Quilts UK and an honourable mention at Houston International Quilt Festival in 2008. Pauline lives in Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK.