Kathleen McCormick From Cambridge Quilts We've talked about cutting strips and resewing them to make intricate patchwork. The Seminole Indians have always been the masters of this. Seminoles were a tribe in the Florida cypress swamps. The people who had come to Christianize them also taught them to sew quilts as well. But they were developed a form of strip patchwork that involved stitching, cutting and restitching. Vintage Seminole Skirt From/Miss Farfalla's Etsy Shop Traditionally they made clothing with their piecing. This is a traditional Seminole skirt. They also made jackets, shirts and other garments, as well as quilts. Seminole Pieced Apron from Ms Sews It All It's easier to understand how this piecing is accomplished by seeing the back. It's all strips, cut at different angles and resewed. Here are several construction diagrams. From Lakeview Stitching From Creating So Many Colors Seminole Tutorial Karen Pior has this fabulous tutorial on her page at Sew Well Maide. Contemporary quilt by Niki Valentine Vick Seminole piecing is quick, very intricate and beautiful. Traditionally it's done with solids, but traditions, like rules, are made to be broken. If you'd like to add amazing pieced detail to your quilting, Seminole pieces is an easy way.
Simply Seminole Techniques & Designs in Quilt Making by Dorothy Hanisko Created by the Native Americans of southern Florida, Seminole strip piecing is based on a simple form of decorative patchwork. A quilting technique that rewards busy quilters. With Simply Seminole, quilters who have mastered the basics can even begin designing their own unique bands! Includes 36 designs, complete with instructions and diagrams. Softback - 102 pages Year: 1997 Measures approximately 11" x 8.5" x 0.5" Condition: Good used / pre-owned condition. I see no rips, creases or markings. ★☆★ Thank you for visiting my shop.
“Created by the Native Americans of southern Florida, Seminole strip piecing is based on a simple form of decorative patchwork. Seminole strip piecing has uses in quilts, wall hangings, and traditiona
Sometimes, once a quilt top is finished, all we want to do is add a plain border or two. Many times they frame the quilt top very nicely, but a pieced border can add something special. Pieced borde…
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Seminole patchwork tutorial- learn how to enhance a design with rainbow fabric.
Today I'm going to show you what I think is the most simple of the Seminole Patchwork strips. If you have not seen my previous blog entry, ...
This pattern is for the Northcott 10th Anniversary Block Party International Contest. Visit the url below for all the information, rules and stores participating in the contest.http://northcott.net/resource_details.aspx?resourceid=3135&resourceCatId=9 Designed by Karen Donnelly of Fabric Smart in Gulfport, Florida.This is a asymmetrical improvisational design, using Northcott's newest collection, Stonehenge Solstice, inspired by the Seminole patchwork of the Florida Seminole Indian Tribe. Plea
I have made dozens of these strips - some very tricky to do. Mostly I work from traditional patterns but because of mistakes, I end up inventing some. Its precision or nothing with Seminole . I love this colour combination. Silky fabric - quite hard to work with but worth it for the jewel-gleam.
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....Nasty bugs have stopped play this last week... again. One of the casualties was a weekend retreat, which unfortunately I had to cancel.So there's not been much crafting going on. This is a piece I made around three weeks ago when the Lovely Ladies from Quiltesk came to show us Seminole patchwork.It measures around 16x28 inches. I wasn't too keen on the wall hanging design they brought along so as usual I did my own thing...one day I will follow the instructions I used scraps of Kaffe Fassett fabrics and added a few embellishments and a little free style quilting. and there was some fabulous news... The Quiltesk ladies are taking over our one and only local patchwork shop...a shop which previously I had avoided... now I just have to learn to drive out of my postcode!(sad but true... I hate driving!)
Piecera en Seminole "Africana"
I promise to add dimensions to the strips in the directions below.. but I wanted to at least post pictures for you to see... More soon, I pr...
My series of posts from Quilting on the Beach was interrupted by our local Quilt Show, but I have one more class to share with you. It was Seminole Patchwork taught by Eva Veltkamp. Do you think Se…
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Seminole quilt began as strips of red and yellow fabrics the sandwiched Seminole while I was quilting it at DC Modern Quilt Guild [photo by Jessie Aller] Keith caught me sewing on the yellow calico binding the back is tiny white pinpoint dots back machine quilted lines match the top side stripe pattern I like the stripes all bunched up to make a jumble of patterns final the Semiole quilt completed It is all done. The red and yellow Seminole single quilt. It's 76 x 52 inches and all machine pieced and quilted. Piecing this project was a lot of fun working to create the various stripe patterns. Using a rotary cutter, straight edge ruler and cutting mat helped make this easier than it would have been with scissors. All that I have left to do is make a label and attach it to the back. I made it this year 2012 from start to finish. It has rows of straight line quilting to match the stripes on the top. Very simply done made it go fast and reduced the stress and anxiety of making mistakes. I laundered it yesterday and it came out just about like it went in, I can't see any difference but it's softer. I got a few good pictures before it goes in the wash just in case something goes wrong. This is a traditional Native American design I know I will be using again. Now back to the Rose-Star project, quilting by hand, a much slower but still a very satisfying experience. Today I discovered another man who quilts while looking at Pinterest quilt boards. Joe Cunningham has been quilting since 1979. He works abstractly and makes some very beautiful modern quilts. He has a blog here as Joe the quilter. He has written several books and does shows and lectures classes etc. in addition to quilting. His latest book is "Man Made Quilts: Civil War to the Present" a catalogue for the show of the same name at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. It is interesting to think about quilts made by other men because in America it seems so unusual. It wasn't always this way and Joe wrote a book on 30 men who quilt which is going on my wish list today... Happy Holidays everybody!
I promise to add dimensions to the strips in the directions below.. but I wanted to at least post pictures for you to see... More soon, I promise! I have this little side business... I make custom kitty quilts. It sounds funny, but they are now all over the US and the world. Last summer I made this one for my girl, Jasmine. I love graphic designs, and Seminole patchwork has always held a certain appeal. I sewed about 7 pieced bands, but used only 5 in her quilt. Here are some pictures of how three of them are put together. This is a traditional Seminole band. The black and white strips are about 2" wide, the turquoise one is 1-1/2". After the strips are sewin together, they are cut crosswise into 1-1/2" pieces. Then every other one is rotated, and the strips are set at a 45 degree angle to make the design shown below. This next band is not a traditional Seminole design
I am leading a virtual Seminole Patchwork workshop for my quilt guild early next year. So, of course, I needed to make some samples for the class. I found great instruction and designs in the book Basic Seminole Patchwork by Cheryl Greider Bradkin. First I made this 20" x 24" wall hanging. I had a lot of fun pulling strips from my solid bins, and did simple quilting in matching colors. However, when I showed it to some guild friends, they thought the tiny pieces looked a little too intimidating. So I did three of the designs at twice the size. This 20" x 20" piece would be good for a wall hanging, tote bag or center of a medallion quilt. Hopefully, not as intimidating. Our guild is still ironing out the kinks with zoom meetings and workshops, so I'm not sure how much we can accomplish in one day. I will demonstrate the three larger designs, and then if people are inspired, they can add more and/or smaller designs. Our guild had a very productive Quilts of Valor virtual Sew Day in October. Many members participated, some making one or two star blocks, others making complete quilt tops and still others finished quilts. I'm doing most of the quilting, but others are assembling tops and adding binding. Here are the first seven we have completed. We have ten more in the works! People are mailing pieces and parts to one another, as well as meeting in parking lots and outdoor space to pass things off. Great to see how we're making it work. It was great to have a nice sunny day to spread out the quilts for a picture! Linking up with Oh Scrap!
This technique is too fun not to explore it more, so I present you Part II of the Seminole Piecing tutorial. You find Part I here. Yesterday someone asked me if this technique works with ombre fabric. Of course, but you will not have such variety in color compared with a rainbow fabric. Many ombre […]
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One of the classes I took at Quilt Fest was from Jan Lowe on Seminole Piecing. This type of patchwork originates in South Florida with th...
Piecera en Seminole
A few months ago I promised I'd show more information about making simple seminole patchwork bands of on point squares. These strip...
Today I'm going to show you what I think is the most simple of the Seminole Patchwork strips. If you have not seen my previous blog entry, ...
I promise to add dimensions to the strips in the directions below.. but I wanted to at least post pictures for you to see... More soon, I pr...
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By Erin Gilday Hi Craftzine! It's me, Erin from Patchwork Underground. I'm writing to you as part of Day 3 of my book tour for Stripped Down Patchwork: 12
I promise to add dimensions to the strips in the directions below.. but I wanted to at least post pictures for you to see... More soon, I pr...
Two years earlier I found seminole quilt borders and was amazed how easy it happens. A boarder that seems very complicated is easy to sew following some simple steps. 1. Cut 3 strips and sew them together. 2. Cut equal pieces along the strips. 3. Turn each even piece. 4. Sew together and trim. In my case I cut three strips: 1,5 " blue printed strip (it was 1" printed strip on the fabric) 3/4" dark red strip 2 " white strip Sew them together to have such long strip. Cut 1,5 " pieces along the whole strip, turn and stitch. Don't worry you have to trim. In my case I want to sew table napkins, so add a 2" strip on the left and 11,5" square on the right. Right side together sew with the backing fabric leaving 4" opening for turning over. After turning over iron well. Stitch along the boarder and the edges. You are ready for serving!
As I mentioned yesterday, I elected to Seminole piece the border for my Hen Party quilt. I did wonder, when I made the design, if I was biting off more than I could chew, but fortunately it has worked out very well! The whole key is to slow down and be very deliberate in everything you do. My border design called for 3" diamonds centred down a 6" strip. The sides of the diamonds needed to be 2 1/8", so I cut the brown strips at 2 5/8". In order for the cream edges to be wide enough, I cut the cream strips to 5 1/2". I sewed the brown strip between two cream strips and ironed the seam allowances towards the centre. This is an important step, because it makes it easy to match the corners later on. Then I cross cut the long pieced strips into units that were also 2 5/8" wide. Then I started to sew the units together in a stepped pattern. Hopefully the photo makes it clear: Each border has 17 diamonds. When I turn the piece on it's side you can see where it's going: To make sure the diamonds were centred in the final border, I lined up my ruler with the 3 1/4" line along the line where the diamond points meet. I cut one side, and then turned it around and cut the other side the same way, so that I ended up with a 6 1/2" border strip: To square off the ends, I added a 4 1/2" half square triangle: This is bigger than needed, so when I'm ready to do the final assembly I'll trim the sides even and the end down to 1/4" from the point of the diamond. It seems like a lot could go wrong with all the bias edges here, but the main thing was that all four sides would finish around the same length. They did! And I gave myself some wiggle room in the design, which I'll talk about when I get the whole top assembled.
Today I'm going to show you what I think is the most simple of the Seminole Patchwork strips. If you have not seen my previous blog entry, ...
