A Day In The Park Quilt

Susan Smith

Final size:

152.5cm (60in) square

USD $11.37

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Description

Create a sweet, naïve-style appliqué quilt with Susan Smith’s appliqué quilt pattern. Featuring dogs and ducks, fish, butterflies and trees, this is a sweet quilt to create in softer, more subdued fabrics and is a suitable gift quilt for children.

Because the appliqué shapes are so small, you can use up a lot of your scrap fabrics when creating them
Use a low-volume range of charm squares to create the background of your centre panel
Create your appliqué templates from the patterns sheet included
Used bias tape made with a bias tape maker
Susan used needleturn appliqué, but you can adjust to suit your preferred appliqué method
Detailed instructions take you from creating your templates and cutting your fabrics to appliqué, creating your borders and completing your quilt
An ideal quilt project for more advanced quilters with appliqué experience

Materials

Fabric requirements and measurement for quilt top, backing and binding specified in instructions
Batting
Appliqué glue such as Roxanne’s Glue Baste It
6mm (¹/4in) bias tape maker such as Clover
Template plastic
50-weight cotton thread to match the appliqué fabrics
Sharps needles
2B pencil
Compass and cardboard
Rotary cutter, ruler and mat
Sewing machine
General sewing supplies

Designer

Susan Smith

What are the projects you are most proud of? As a designer, I am proud that other people enjoy making my designs. With social media, it is wonderful to watch their journey with my designs.

Have you got favourite design motifs that you always return to? I am keen on putting a rabbit in quilts. I have put rabbits on lots of my quilts for about 20 years.

Do you like to use seasonal colour palettes or do you just go with the mood of the moment? My quilts are often quite detailed and take more than one season to make, so it is definitely the mood of the moment.

What’s the most flattering feedback you’ve ever had for your stitching? I'm not a fabulous stitcher and I don’t need my work to be perfect. But I think, as a designer, when someone comes back to make a second or third design, it is flattering. It’s an honour to have one of my designs used to make a special quilt for their family member.

You designed this little doll’s cot quilt as a Christmas present, didn’t you? Yes, I thought it would make wonderful Christmas gift - something to treasure for a lifetime.

Do you often make hand-stitched Christmas gifts for friends and family? Yes, I often do. I usually make some padded Liberty coathangers, someone usually receives a quilt and, last year, I knitted my daughter a detailed cabled hat. I cook a lot of things as Christmas gifts, as well.

Are craft supplies always on your Christmas wish list? Not really, but I would always welcome them. I often wish for a class somewhere as a gift. It's wonderful to learn something new.

Did you always hanker after a doll’s crib when you were a child? I hankered after anything to do with dolls. I love dolls, dolls’ prams, cribs and dolls’ clothes. I started knitting as a child to make dolls’ clothes, and that's how I started making quilts - for my dolls. I still love to see a beautiful dolls’ pram or crib.

Did you make lots of clothes for your childhood dolls? I loved to help my mother make dolls’ clothes. She made me so many beautiful detailed dolls’ clothes and packed them in little cases. I remember some very special Christmases, where I would wake up to my dolls dressed in new clothes, or there would be a little case full of clothes. She always managed to make them without us seeing them.

Susan Smith, Patchwork on Stonleigh –

patchworkonstonleigh@yahoo.com.au