Primitive Applique and using buttonhole embroidery stitch to achieve it!
Keeping busy during the pandemic. Working through some of my UFO's around the house.
About 25 years ago my husband and I were in Allentown, Pa at a flea market and I saw 7 quilt blocks completed for $75.00. They had the birds on them and I think 3 extra more simple blocks. I brought them home but didn't know what to do with them. In 2003 lo and behold a lady in Stillwater, Oklahoma had made this quilt and it was pictured in Quilters newsletter.
Now I knew what to do, so I made the pattern off the two simple blocks and then I had to search for material to match the other blocks I have a stash of depression era fabrics and the muslin for the background was easy to finish.
The applique is called primitive applique. I did not turn down any edges on the applique but did a buttonhole embroidery stitch around each piece of the applique. It took me about 40 hours to finish each block of the applique.
When I finished it I took it to Newkirk and had it machine quilted. Then I put it away and did not mess with binding it. About a month ago, in 2020, I decided that I would bind the quilt. I just took the back lining and brought it over to the front. It took me about 8 hours to do the binding. Am very pleased with the result and it will fit a twin bed or can be used as a throw.
