Floral Dimensions: 20 Stunning 3D Flowers to Machine Appliqué

by Pauline Ineson

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.

Genres: Quilting

128 pages, Paperback

First published May 5, 2012

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was rather disappointed with this book. It was on my wish list as something to buy before I found a copy at my library. I am rather pleased that I had the opportunity to look before committing myself to yet another book which I would put on the shelf and hardly use. The book is well illustrated but I personally feel that the flowers would look so much better if made with finer fabrics. There is also a reference which after many years of sewing I have never seen before. In the section of pansies the author suggests that the fabric be 'fussy cut'. Don't quite understand what she means and that is also one of my complaints with this book, an experienced sewer would have no problem following the diagrams and instructions but there is not sufficient information for a beginner.

[Lorri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely illustrations. Simple instructions. I borrowed this from the library and have spent the last three weeks going back time and again to browse. Spent the weekend actually trying the various dimensional flowers and they are as simple as I had hoped. If you love silk ribbon embroidery and crazy quilting but are thinking your project needs something a bit bigger, check this out.

Another UK fabric artist that I shall be watching for. These techniques are going to show up very quickly in my projects.