Summer Window – 1988

I took a class on stained glass quilting.  I picked a sunflower pattern to do as a wall hanging.  We didn’t use any short cuts in this class – instead we made our own bias binding and hand appliqued it around the pattern shapes to get the stained glass effect.  We were taught we could machine stitch some of the straight lines by opening up the bias tape and stitching it down in the crease on one side, the folding it over and appliqeuing the other side down by hand.

I hand quilted this wall hanging close to the appliques and also did a quilted design in the border which is difficult to tell since it’s on printed fabric.

I gave this as a gift to my mother and here she is holding it.