Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne Arnieri The Block of the Month at Material Culture in 2023-2024 is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique. Here are link...
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5: Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown Southerners had favorite patterns and this dogtooth appliqued pineapple or tobacco leaf was quite popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually done in solid colors. Found in the Arizona project. Betty Meek McKenzie's family called this Tobacco Leaf when they showed her quilt to the Louisiana project. It's based on one of the oldest American designs going back to the early 19th century: The Reel or Oak Leaf design... ...with many added pointy edges. Two pattern sheets for the Dogtooth technique And two for the template method. Forgot to post this one of Denniele Bohannon's. A catalog from years ago. A post on the pattern: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/11/georgia-adams-lane-no-nothings-fancy.html
Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne Arnieri The Block of the Month at Material Culture lately is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique. Here are links to posts with free patterns for this traditional appliquetechniqu
Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne Arnieri The Block of the Month at Material Culture in 2023-2024 is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique. Here are link...
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5: Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown Southerners had favorite patterns and this dogtooth appliqued pineapple or tobacco leaf was quite popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually done in solid colors. Found in the Arizona project. Betty Meek McKenzie's family called this Tobacco Leaf when they showed her quilt to the Louisiana project. It's based on one of the oldest American designs going back to the early 19th century: The Reel or Oak Leaf design... ...with many added pointy edges. Two pattern sheets for the Dogtooth technique And two for the template method. Forgot to post this one of Denniele Bohannon's. A catalog from years ago. A post on the pattern: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/11/georgia-adams-lane-no-nothings-fancy.html
Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne Arnieri The Block of the Month at Material Culture lately is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique. Here are links to posts with free patterns for this traditional appliquetechniqu
Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky Brown Comfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early 20th century, published a design for "Bouquet." My 1-inch sketch gives you an idea of the pattern. Elsie Ridgley's Bouquet A little William Morris fabric. Bouquet by Denniele Bohannon Pattern for dogtooth applique Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust if necessary. Each month you get two patterns for two techniques. Pattern for conventional template applique Notice that Becky shortened the green stems to make the red florals touch, giving a more complex look to the finished block. The design seems to have been popular in the red and green decades. From a sampler recorded by the New York project & the Quilt Index. Jeanne Arnieri's Bouquet She is enjoying the dogtooth applique technique. I don't have a clipping for the Comfort picture of Bouquet but here is a similar pieced design. They did some wacky designs---mostly reader contributions. And on the topic of wacky.
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5: Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown Southerners had favorite patterns and this dogtooth appliqued pineapple or tobacco leaf was quite popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually done in solid colors. Found in the Arizona project. Betty Meek McKenzie's family called this Tobacco Leaf when they showed her quilt to the Louisiana project. It's based on one of the oldest American designs going back to the early 19th century: The Reel or Oak Leaf design... ...with many added pointy edges. Two pattern sheets for the Dogtooth technique And two for the template method. Forgot to post this one of Denniele Bohannon's. A catalog from years ago. A post on the pattern: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/11/georgia-adams-lane-no-nothings-fancy.html
Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne Arnieri The Block of the Month at Material Culture in 2023-2024 is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique. Here are links to posts with 9 free patterns for this traditional applique technique in which you slash and turn points rather than using a template. Becky Brown's Block #2 showing 5 finished, pointy edges and 3 before the fabric is slashed to make the points. Denniele Bohannon is stitching her points using templates---the more common applique style. Each month you get patterns for both techniques. We have a Facebook group where you can share your progress. It's an open group. You don't have to join. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1007843703959466 PhoebesFavoriteDogtoothQuilt And you can buy the set of patterns here in my Etsy shop---32 pages for $12. Do note there's an error in there ---the blocks finish to 18-1/2" not 18". https://www.etsy.com/listing/1505697913/9-traditional-applique-blocks-in-a? Click on the links below to see the nine free patterns posted on the first day of each month beginning July 1, 2023 The Introduction: http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/06/applique-block-of-month-phoebes.html #1 Sunflower by Becky Brown Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique #1 #2 Bouquet by Elsie Ridgley Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique #2 #3 Mexicali Rose by Denniele Bohannon Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite #3: Mexicali Rose #4 Floral Vase by Jeanne Arnieri Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite #4: Floral Vase #5 Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/11/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-applique-5.html #6 Princess Feather by Elsie Ridgley https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/12/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-6-princess.html #7 Pineapple by Denniele Bohannon https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/01/phoebes-favorite-7-pineapple.html #8 Eagle by Becky Brown https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/02/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-8-eagle.html #9 Cochise County by Elsie Ridgley https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/03/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-9-cochise.html Denniele Bohannon All nine blocks and a border beginning Becky Brown plans to applique a dogtooth triangle border around the nine blocks and turn that on point. You know she isn't going to leave those corners empty. Two good sources for how-to's on slashed and turned Dogtooth borders: Elly Sienkiewicz's Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts & Jeana Kimball's The Quilter's Ultimate Visual Guide. Or sash them and do a Dogtooth Star in the cornerstones.
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5: Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown Southerners had favorite patterns and this dogtooth appliqued pineapple or tobacco leaf was quite popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually done in solid colors. Found in the Arizona project. Betty Meek McKenzie's family called this Tobacco Leaf when they showed her quilt to the Louisiana project. It's based on one of the oldest American designs going back to the early 19th century: The Reel or Oak Leaf design... ...with many added pointy edges. Two pattern sheets for the Dogtooth technique And two for the template method. Forgot to post this one of Denniele Bohannon's. A catalog from years ago. A post on the pattern: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/11/georgia-adams-lane-no-nothings-fancy.html
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5: Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown Southerners had favorite patterns and this dogtooth appliqued pineapple or tobacco leaf was quite popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually done in solid colors. Found in the Arizona project. Betty Meek McKenzie's family called this Tobacco Leaf when they showed her quilt to the Louisiana project. It's based on one of the oldest American designs going back to the early 19th century: The Reel or Oak Leaf design... ...with many added pointy edges. Two pattern sheets for the Dogtooth technique And two for the template method. Forgot to post this one of Denniele Bohannon's. A catalog from years ago. A post on the pattern: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/11/georgia-adams-lane-no-nothings-fancy.html
Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne Arnieri The Block of the Month at Material Culture in 2023-2024 is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique. Here are links to posts with 9 free patterns for this traditional applique technique in which you slash and turn points rather than using a template. Becky Brown's Block #2 showing 5 finished, pointy edges and 3 before the fabric is slashed to make the points. Denniele Bohannon is stitching her points using templates---the more common applique style. Each month you get patterns for both techniques. We have a Facebook group where you can share your progress. It's an open group. You don't have to join. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1007843703959466 PhoebesFavoriteDogtoothQuilt And you can buy the set of patterns here in my Etsy shop---32 pages for $12. Do note there's an error in there ---the blocks finish to 18-1/2" not 18". https://www.etsy.com/listing/1505697913/9-traditional-applique-blocks-in-a? Click on the links below to see the nine free patterns posted on the first day of each month beginning July 1, 2023 The Introduction: http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/06/applique-block-of-month-phoebes.html #1 Sunflower by Becky Brown Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique #1 #2 Bouquet by Elsie Ridgley Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique #2 #3 Mexicali Rose by Denniele Bohannon Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite #3: Mexicali Rose #4 Floral Vase by Jeanne Arnieri Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite #4: Floral Vase #5 Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/11/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-applique-5.html #6 Princess Feather by Elsie Ridgley https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/12/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-6-princess.html #7 Pineapple by Denniele Bohannon https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/01/phoebes-favorite-7-pineapple.html #8 Eagle by Becky Brown https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/02/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-8-eagle.html #9 Cochise County by Elsie Ridgley https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/03/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-9-cochise.html Denniele Bohannon All nine blocks and a border beginning Becky Brown plans to applique a dogtooth triangle border around the nine blocks and turn that on point. You know she isn't going to leave those corners empty. Two good sources for how-to's on slashed and turned Dogtooth borders: Elly Sienkiewicz's Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts & Jeana Kimball's The Quilter's Ultimate Visual Guide. Or sash them and do a Dogtooth Star in the cornerstones.
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5: Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown Southerners had favorite patterns and this dogtooth appliqued pineapple or tobacco leaf was quite popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually done in solid colors. Found in the Arizona project. Betty Meek McKenzie's family called this Tobacco Leaf when they showed her quilt to the Louisiana project. It's based on one of the oldest American designs going back to the early 19th century: The Reel or Oak Leaf design... ...with many added pointy edges. Two pattern sheets for the Dogtooth technique And two for the template method. Forgot to post this one of Denniele Bohannon's. A catalog from years ago. A post on the pattern: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/11/georgia-adams-lane-no-nothings-fancy.html
Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky Brown Comfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early 20th century, published a design for "Bouquet." My 1-inch sketch gives you an idea of the pattern. Elsie Ridgley's Bouquet A little William Morris fabric. Bouquet by Denniele Bohannon Pattern for dogtooth applique Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust if necessary. Each month you get two patterns for two techniques. Pattern for conventional template applique Notice that Becky shortened the green stems to make the red florals touch, giving a more complex look to the finished block. The design seems to have been popular in the red and green decades. From a sampler recorded by the New York project & the Quilt Index. Jeanne Arnieri's Bouquet She is enjoying the dogtooth applique technique. I don't have a clipping for the Comfort picture of Bouquet but here is a similar pieced design. They did some wacky designs---mostly reader contributions. And on the topic of wacky.
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5: Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown Southerners had favorite patterns and this dogtooth appliqued pineapple or tobacco leaf was quite popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually done in solid colors. Found in the Arizona project. Betty Meek McKenzie's family called this Tobacco Leaf when they showed her quilt to the Louisiana project. It's based on one of the oldest American designs going back to the early 19th century: The Reel or Oak Leaf design... ...with many added pointy edges. Two pattern sheets for the Dogtooth technique And two for the template method. Forgot to post this one of Denniele Bohannon's. A catalog from years ago. A post on the pattern: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/11/georgia-adams-lane-no-nothings-fancy.html
Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne Arnieri The Block of the Month at Material Culture in 2023-2024 is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique. Here are link...
Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne Arnieri The Block of the Month at Material Culture in 2023-2024 is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique. Here are link...
Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne Arnieri The Block of the Month at Material Culture in 2023-2024 is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique. Here are link...
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5: Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown Southerners had favorite patterns and this dogtooth appliqued pineapple or tobacco leaf was quite popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually done in solid colors. Found in the Arizona project. Betty Meek McKenzie's family called this Tobacco Leaf when they showed her quilt to the Louisiana project. It's based on one of the oldest American designs going back to the early 19th century: The Reel or Oak Leaf design... ...with many added pointy edges. Two pattern sheets for the Dogtooth technique And two for the template method. Forgot to post this one of Denniele Bohannon's. A catalog from years ago. A post on the pattern: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/11/georgia-adams-lane-no-nothings-fancy.html
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5: Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown Southerners had favorite patterns and this dogtooth appliqued pineapple or tobacco leaf was quite popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually done in solid colors. Found in the Arizona project. Betty Meek McKenzie's family called this Tobacco Leaf when they showed her quilt to the Louisiana project. It's based on one of the oldest American designs going back to the early 19th century: The Reel or Oak Leaf design... ...with many added pointy edges. Two pattern sheets for the Dogtooth technique And two for the template method. Forgot to post this one of Denniele Bohannon's. A catalog from years ago. A post on the pattern: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/11/georgia-adams-lane-no-nothings-fancy.html
Phoebe's Favorite #1: Sunflower by Becky Brown The first of an appliqued Block of the Month series here on my Material Culture blog. Look for a free pattern on the first day of each month through March, 2024 here. Becky used the dogtooth applique method to make her floral. It's called Phoebe's Favorite after my dog. The blocks finish to 18-1/2" (or you can make them larger.) You'll learn how to use the traditional dogtooth method to applique points. But you also get a pattern for conventional applique: templates with seam allowances added. Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust size if necessary. Cut the background 19" or larger. Above the dogtooth technique pattern for the inner star and the leaf---cropped a bit to fit on a sheet of paper. The star should be cut as a circle 6-3/4" in diameter. Becky's yellow petals above (16 of them) were cut as a circle, slashed and turned under. She's stitching by hand, the traditional way to do dogtooth applique. Now you may want to use conventional applique methods so you will get two patterns each month. Patterns for conventional applique. You need to add seam allowances to these templates. The leaves and center star Jeanne Arnieri used the dogtooth technique and added a dot. She says: "Dogtooth applique is quite quick and easy -- fun!!!" A variation. Drawn from a quilt in the collection of Bev & Jeffrey Evans Mark French's inventory 20th-century version The dogtooth method allows you a lot of freedom. This 1921 reference to a dog-tooth border is the earliest I've found to that name for applique style but they are showing a pieced sawtooth border, not what I'd call an appliqued dogtooth border. Sunflower by Denniele Bohannon See the introduction post a few weeks ago: https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/06/applique-block-of-month-phoebes.html
Alice's four patch When Alice Browne was nine in the 1860s she began a four-patch quilt. from which we drew many of the prints in my latest Moda reproduction collection Alice's Scrapbag. I sketched Alice's Four Patch out in Electric Quilt 7 and give you a free quilt pattern below. Fabric Required for the Blocks. A package of fat quarters. Or your scrapbag of 1850-1870 repro prints. 3/4 yard extra of a light print or a plain white for the lightest squares. Alice's Four Patch About 72" square 12" Blocks 4" Sashing 2" Border The Blocks Each of Alice's blocks finished to about 12" square. Notice she used a plain white as her lightest shade but you could use the lightest print in the collection. She rotated the blocks randomly when she set the quilt. The block is a double four-patch. There are 25 complete four-patches in Alice's quilt Cutting Instructions For each four patch finishing to 12": A - Cut 2 squares 6-1/2" B- Cut 4 squares 3-1/2" of dark and 4 squares 3-1/2" of light. Setting the Blocks Alice seems to have set the blocks she pieced in the 1860s into a quilt about 20 years later. She placed them on the diagonal and continued the four patch design out to the edge---the pattern for her set is below. You might want to frame the center with dark unpieced squares. First I am going to give you the pattern for the easier quilt. At the bottom is the pattern for Alice's edges. Alice's Four Patch Alternate Edge EQ7 says you need 3/4 yard for the dark edges. You need 12 side triangles. Cut 3 squares of the large brown print (Mama's Apron) 18-1/4". Cut each twice diagonally to make 4 triangles. You need 4 corner triangles. Cut 2 squares 9-3/8" and cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles. Sashing and Border We didn't do a reproduction print of Alice's actual sashing because she set the quilt together later. But one of the pinks or reds would capture the look of Alice's original. #8316-15 Baby's Pantalettes Fabric - 3-1/2 yards for sashing and border. Sashing: There are two ways to sash this. I'd sash it with strips and cornerstones, working in small sections. Working this way you can make frame the blocks as you go. but Alice sashed it with long diagonal strips. (Dealing with strips 116" long is never fun.) For the cornerstone version: Cut 57 sashing strips 4-1/2" x 12-1/2". Cut 24 cornerstones 4-1/2" x 4-1/2". For the edge triangles cut 4 squares 5-1/4". Cut each twice diagonally to make 4 triangles. You need 16 triangles. For Alice's version with long strips Cut 32 sashing strips 4-1/2" x 12-1/2". Cut pairs of strips 4-1/2" by the sizes shown below. After you sew the top together trim the edges of each strip at a 45 degree angle. Border: (I'd cut these a little longer and trim them after measuring the final top.) For the sides: Cut 2 strips 2-12/" x 68-3/4". For the top and bottom: Cut 2 strips 2-12/" x 72 1/2". Pattern for Alice's Edges For the 12 Side Triangles Alice probably cut her double four-patches in half to make those side triangles, but we are going to plan ahead by piecing a triangle of B and C. You need 12 single four-patches. Using the measurements for B above (cut 3-1/2" x 3-1/2") make 12 of these four patches finishing to 6" square. For the C triangles: Cut 6 squares 7-1/4" and cut each twice diagonally to make 4 triangles. You need 24 triangles. (I think this is the best way to get those triangles so you don't have a bias cut along the edge.) For the 4 Corner Triangles You need 4 light squares B (cut 3-1/2" x 3-1/2"). You need 4 C triangles (see the corners where 2 are light and 2 are dark). Again it's probably best to cut squares 7-1/4" and cut each twice diagonally to make 4 triangles to avoid bias in the corner edges. You also need 8 D triangles. Cut 2 squares 4-1/4" and cut each twice diagonally to make 4 triangles to avoid bias in the corner edges. Piece those together for the corners. Alice Blue Four-Patch Another version emphasizing the blues in the line with the blue colorway of Mama's Apron for side triangles and border. I Photoshopped Alice's quilt onto this stereocard photo of a girl sewing patchwork about 1890. The card was produced by Underwood & Underwood. Like Alice's quilt the photo probably came from Kansas.
Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky Brown Comfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early 20th century, published a design for "Bouquet." My 1-inch sketch gives you an idea of the pattern. Elsie Ridgley's Bouquet A little William Morris fabric. Bouquet by Denniele Bohannon Pattern for dogtooth applique Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust if necessary. Each month you get two patterns for two techniques. Pattern for conventional template applique Notice that Becky shortened the green stems to make the red florals touch, giving a more complex look to the finished block. The design seems to have been popular in the red and green decades. From a sampler recorded by the New York project & the Quilt Index. Jeanne Arnieri's Bouquet She is enjoying the dogtooth applique technique. I don't have a clipping for the Comfort picture of Bouquet but here is a similar pieced design. They did some wacky designs---mostly reader contributions. And on the topic of wacky.
Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky Brown Comfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early 20th century, published a design for "Bouquet." My 1-inch sketch gives you an idea of the pattern. Elsie Ridgley's Bouquet A little William Morris fabric. Bouquet by Denniele Bohannon Pattern for dogtooth applique Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust if necessary. Each month you get two patterns for two techniques. Pattern for conventional template applique Notice that Becky shortened the green stems to make the red florals touch, giving a more complex look to the finished block. The design seems to have been popular in the red and green decades. From a sampler recorded by the New York project & the Quilt Index. Jeanne Arnieri's Bouquet She is enjoying the dogtooth applique technique. I don't have a clipping for the Comfort picture of Bouquet but here is a similar pieced design. They did some wacky designs---mostly reader contributions. And on the topic of wacky.
Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky Brown Comfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early 20th century, published a des...
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth Applique #5: Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown Southerners had favorite patterns and this dogtooth appliqued pineapple or tobacco leaf was quite popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, usually done in solid colors. Found in the Arizona project. Betty Meek McKenzie's family called this Tobacco Leaf when they showed her quilt to the Louisiana project. It's based on one of the oldest American designs going back to the early 19th century: The Reel or Oak Leaf design... ...with many added pointy edges. Two pattern sheets for the Dogtooth technique And two for the template method. Forgot to post this one of Denniele Bohannon's. A catalog from years ago. A post on the pattern: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/11/georgia-adams-lane-no-nothings-fancy.html
Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky Brown Comfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early 20th century, published a design for "Bouquet." My 1-inch sketch gives you an idea of the pattern. Elsie Ridgley's Bouquet A little William Morris fabric. Bouquet by Denniele Bohannon Pattern for dogtooth applique Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust if necessary. Each month you get two patterns for two techniques. Pattern for conventional template applique Notice that Becky shortened the green stems to make the red florals touch, giving a more complex look to the finished block. The design seems to have been popular in the red and green decades. From a sampler recorded by the New York project & the Quilt Index. Jeanne Arnieri's Bouquet She is enjoying the dogtooth applique technique. I don't have a clipping for the Comfort picture of Bouquet but here is a similar pieced design. They did some wacky designs---mostly reader contributions. And on the topic of wacky.
Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky Brown Comfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early 20th century, published a design for "Bouquet." My 1-inch sketch gives you an idea of the pattern. Elsie Ridgley's Bouquet A little William Morris fabric. Bouquet by Denniele Bohannon Pattern for dogtooth applique Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust if necessary. Each month you get two patterns for two techniques. Pattern for conventional template applique Notice that Becky shortened the green stems to make the red florals touch, giving a more complex look to the finished block. The design seems to have been popular in the red and green decades. From a sampler recorded by the New York project & the Quilt Index. Jeanne Arnieri's Bouquet She is enjoying the dogtooth applique technique. I don't have a clipping for the Comfort picture of Bouquet but here is a similar pieced design. They did some wacky designs---mostly reader contributions. And on the topic of wacky.
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth #6: Princess Feather by Becky Brown Princess Feather patterns in a variety of interpretations were popular with 19th-century quiltmakers. One could use a template as Anna McKindly probably did for her quilt below. Collection of the DAR Museum https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=16-12-204 Or stitch all those points using a Dogtooth technique... as seems to be the case in this one. And this one. The inspiration below is from the inventory of the late Laura Fisher who loved a graphic quilt. Princess Feather by Elsie Ridgley in William Morris prints Our center is simpler than the antique version. Even simpler by Jeanne Arnieri Below are three pattern sheets, two for the Dogtooth applique; one for the template technique. Mid-19th-century quilt with an unusual Dogtooth stitched shape in the corners. Spirals are tricky and Dogtooth-slashed spirals.....
Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne Arnieri The Block of the Month at Material Culture in 2023-2024 is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique. Here are links to posts with 9 free patterns for this traditional applique technique in which you slash and turn points rather than using a template. Becky Brown's Block #2 showing 5 finished, pointy edges and 3 before the fabric is slashed to make the points. Denniele Bohannon is stitching her points using templates---the more common applique style. Each month you get patterns for both techniques. We have a Facebook group where you can share your progress. It's an open group. You don't have to join. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1007843703959466 PhoebesFavoriteDogtoothQuilt And you can buy the set of patterns here in my Etsy shop---32 pages for $12. Do note there's an error in there ---the blocks finish to 18-1/2" not 18". https://www.etsy.com/listing/1505697913/9-traditional-applique-blocks-in-a? Click on the links below to see the nine free patterns posted on the first day of each month beginning July 1, 2023 The Introduction: http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/06/applique-block-of-month-phoebes.html #1 Sunflower by Becky Brown Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique #1 #2 Bouquet by Elsie Ridgley Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique #2 #3 Mexicali Rose by Denniele Bohannon Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite #3: Mexicali Rose #4 Floral Vase by Jeanne Arnieri Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Phoebe's Favorite #4: Floral Vase #5 Tobacco Leaf by Becky Brown https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/11/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-applique-5.html #6 Princess Feather by Elsie Ridgley https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/12/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-6-princess.html #7 Pineapple by Denniele Bohannon https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/01/phoebes-favorite-7-pineapple.html #8 Eagle by Becky Brown https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/02/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-8-eagle.html #9 Cochise County by Elsie Ridgley https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/03/phoebes-favorite-dogtooth-9-cochise.html Denniele Bohannon All nine blocks and a border beginning Becky Brown plans to applique a dogtooth triangle border around the nine blocks and turn that on point. You know she isn't going to leave those corners empty. Two good sources for how-to's on slashed and turned Dogtooth borders: Elly Sienkiewicz's Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts & Jeana Kimball's The Quilter's Ultimate Visual Guide. Or sash them and do a Dogtooth Star in the cornerstones.
Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky Brown Comfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early 20th century, published a design for "Bouquet." My 1-inch sketch gives you an idea of the pattern. Elsie Ridgley's Bouquet A little William Morris fabric. Bouquet by Denniele Bohannon Pattern for dogtooth applique Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust if necessary. Each month you get two patterns for two techniques. Pattern for conventional template applique Notice that Becky shortened the green stems to make the red florals touch, giving a more complex look to the finished block. The design seems to have been popular in the red and green decades. From a sampler recorded by the New York project & the Quilt Index. Jeanne Arnieri's Bouquet She is enjoying the dogtooth applique technique. I don't have a clipping for the Comfort picture of Bouquet but here is a similar pieced design. They did some wacky designs---mostly reader contributions. And on the topic of wacky.
Phoebe's Favorite Dogtooth #6: Princess Feather by Becky Brown Princess Feather patterns in a variety of interpretations were popular with 19th-century quiltmakers. One could use a template as Anna McKindly probably did for her quilt below. Collection of the DAR Museum https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=16-12-204 Or stitch all those points using a Dogtooth technique... as seems to be the case in this one. And this one. The inspiration below is from the inventory of the late Laura Fisher who loved a graphic quilt. Princess Feather by Elsie Ridgley in William Morris prints Our center is simpler than the antique version. Even simpler by Jeanne Arnieri Below are three pattern sheets, two for the Dogtooth applique; one for the template technique. Mid-19th-century quilt with an unusual Dogtooth stitched shape in the corners. Spirals are tricky and Dogtooth-slashed spirals.....
Blocks 1-4 by Jeanne Arnieri The Block of the Month at Material Culture in 2023-2024 is Pheobe's Favorite: Dogtooth Applique. Here are link...
9 Traditional Applique Blocks in a Sampler Quilt Using the Dogtooth Method-Slash, Fold & Stitch. Historical Patterns PDF by Barbara Brackman. Phoebe’s Favorite: Dogtooth Applique is a Block of the Month for 2023-4 on Barbara Brackman’s Material Culture blog ---July 2023-March 2024. This Color PDF to print yourself. $12 Each block also includes patterns for conventional template applique. The 32-page pattern sheet package features patterns for 18" blocks with a setting suggestion for a quilt about 54” square, with sashing 78”. The difficulty level is moderately skilled. You may want to learn a new/old way of applique or use templates to create all those points. See our model maker Becky Brown’s new skills in her sample blocks. Check Barbara's blog on the first of each month from July to March, 2024. https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/
Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky Brown Comfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early 20th century, published a design for "Bouquet." My 1-inch sketch gives you an idea of the pattern. Elsie Ridgley's Bouquet A little William Morris fabric. Bouquet by Denniele Bohannon Pattern for dogtooth applique Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust if necessary. Each month you get two patterns for two techniques. Pattern for conventional template applique Notice that Becky shortened the green stems to make the red florals touch, giving a more complex look to the finished block. The design seems to have been popular in the red and green decades. From a sampler recorded by the New York project & the Quilt Index. Jeanne Arnieri's Bouquet She is enjoying the dogtooth applique technique. I don't have a clipping for the Comfort picture of Bouquet but here is a similar pieced design. They did some wacky designs---mostly reader contributions. And on the topic of wacky.
Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky Brown Comfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early 20th century, published a design for "Bouquet." My 1-inch sketch gives you an idea of the pattern. Elsie Ridgley's Bouquet A little William Morris fabric. Bouquet by Denniele Bohannon Pattern for dogtooth applique Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust if necessary. Each month you get two patterns for two techniques. Pattern for conventional template applique Notice that Becky shortened the green stems to make the red florals touch, giving a more complex look to the finished block. The design seems to have been popular in the red and green decades. From a sampler recorded by the New York project & the Quilt Index. Jeanne Arnieri's Bouquet She is enjoying the dogtooth applique technique. I don't have a clipping for the Comfort picture of Bouquet but here is a similar pieced design. They did some wacky designs---mostly reader contributions. And on the topic of wacky.
We love regularity (some of us.) But some of us love spontaneity. A favorite find for me is a wacky star in a 19th-century quilt. No templates involved here. An eagle with a load of odd-shaped arrows and stars (late 19th c.?) Reproduction eagle and star by me These appliqued stars seem to be related to the dogtooth border technique where seamstresses slashed a strip and tucked under the points as they appliqued. Appliqued dogtooth border The stars were especially popular with eagles. The stars could have 8 points, 6, 5 or 4. Quilt dated 1898 4 points. In the next post in a few days I'll show you how they did these free-cut stars. Below are the allover views of some of these quilts. See more about the dogtooth border at this post http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2010/12/dogtooth-borders.html And more about the eagle design here last year. http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2010/07/eagles-and-eccentricities.html Quilt dated 1848 with a scallop border and a many free-cut five-pointed stars.
Phoebe's Favorite #1: Sunflower by Becky Brown The first of an appliqued Block of the Month series here on my Material Culture blog. Look for a free pattern on the first day of each month through March, 2024 here. Becky used the dogtooth applique method to make her floral. It's called Phoebe's Favorite after my dog. The blocks finish to 18-1/2" (or you can make them larger.) You'll learn how to use the traditional dogtooth method to applique points. But you also get a pattern for conventional applique: templates with seam allowances added. Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust size if necessary. Cut the background 19" or larger. Above the dogtooth technique pattern for the inner star and the leaf---cropped a bit to fit on a sheet of paper. The star should be cut as a circle 6-3/4" in diameter. Becky's yellow petals above (16 of them) were cut as a circle, slashed and turned under. She's stitching by hand, the traditional way to do dogtooth applique. Now you may want to use conventional applique methods so you will get two patterns each month. Patterns for conventional applique. You need to add seam allowances to these templates. The leaves and center star Jeanne Arnieri used the dogtooth technique and added a dot. She says: "Dogtooth applique is quite quick and easy -- fun!!!" A variation. Drawn from a quilt in the collection of Bev & Jeffrey Evans Mark French's inventory 20th-century version The dogtooth method allows you a lot of freedom. This 1921 reference to a dog-tooth border is the earliest I've found to that name for applique style but they are showing a pieced sawtooth border, not what I'd call an appliqued dogtooth border. Sunflower by Denniele Bohannon See the introduction post a few weeks ago: https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/06/applique-block-of-month-phoebes.html
Quilt signed C.A.C., 1853 Collection of the National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution I spent some time last year gathering pictures of quilts with dates inscribed on them and filing them on Pinterest pages by decades or years. The eagle quilt above is on the 1853 page. Click here: https://www.pinterest.com/materialculture/1853-quilts-date-inscribed/ I'm only up to 1860. We recognize the spread eagle with olive branch and arrows as a symbol of the United States My goal for this year is to analyze all those images before I go on to the post-1860 years. How did quilts change over time? How did quilting's popularity ebb and flow? How did trends in trade, technology and taste affect that? And in the case of the political imagery like the eagle how did politics influence quiltmaking? Quilt dated 1853 See more about these eagle quilts with Washington on horseback at this post: http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2018/01/washington-on-horseback.html If you look at that 1853 page you will notice an enthusiasm for eagles. Quilt dated 1853 Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art Each pieced star represents a state. Here is Maryland's. What happened in 1853 of political importance? Franklin Pierce was inaugurated in March, 1853. The Pierce presidency, recalled as one of the worst ever, was a slow-motion train wreck as the North and South became ever more divided. Pierce's inauguration was not likely to inspire such lively images.* Other current events in pre-Civil War politics tend to be recalled as rather dull. Senator Stephen A. Douglas started working on the Kansas/Nebraska act, which would become a flashpoint in 1854 but that was next year. Senator Henry Clay's death in July, 1853, however, was not just the quiet passing of a politician but an occasion for national mourning. Is that the key? Quilt signed Phelps, 1853. Sotheby Auction Sotheby's assumes it was made in Phelps, Ontario County, New York Henry Clay had inspired many quilts and this one may be one of them. The words are "INDUSTRY" above the eagles head and in the ribbon: "WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY," attributed to Benjamin Franklin. The word Industry referred to American production, implying support for tarrifs, protectionism that was a Clay motto. Clay ran for President unsuccessfully three times. http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2008/important-americana-n08400/lot.187.html Quilt dated 1853 by Lucy Shephard Loomis (1825-1907) Baltimore Collection of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, #2007-022-0001 Quilt commissioned by Maria Theresa Baldwin Hollander Collection of Historic New England This small silk quilt with an antislavery message is not dated but it was shown at the 1853 Crystal Palace Exhibition in New York City where it received national attention, perhaps inspiring a surge of eagle quilts. See a post here: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2014/11/abolitionist-quilt-at-crystal-palace.html I thought I'd examine the politics of the 1850s and more eagle quilts over the next few days. Look for a post tomorrow. *I was reading antislavery activist Hannah Ropes's letters in Civil War Nurse the other day and here's how she described President Franklin Pierce: "the most unmitigated calamity Heaven ever suffered upon the earth." I doubt he inspired many quilts.
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Phoebe's Favorite #2 Bouquet by Becky Brown Comfort magazine, a widely read woman's periodical in the early 20th century, published a design for "Bouquet." My 1-inch sketch gives you an idea of the pattern. Elsie Ridgley's Bouquet A little William Morris fabric. Bouquet by Denniele Bohannon Pattern for dogtooth applique Print the pattern sheets on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper. Check the inch square for accuracy and adjust if necessary. Each month you get two patterns for two techniques. Pattern for conventional template applique Notice that Becky shortened the green stems to make the red florals touch, giving a more complex look to the finished block. The design seems to have been popular in the red and green decades. From a sampler recorded by the New York project & the Quilt Index. Jeanne Arnieri's Bouquet She is enjoying the dogtooth applique technique. I don't have a clipping for the Comfort picture of Bouquet but here is a similar pieced design. They did some wacky designs---mostly reader contributions. And on the topic of wacky.
