Forget-Me-Knots: An Album of Applique Designs by Jeana Kimball

Drawing on the nineteenth century applique album quilt tradition, Jeana presents this collection of thirty-six designs. A joyful collection of a variety of flowers and fruits, including roses, sunflowers, pomegranates, strawberries, and even a watermelon, are combined with a menagerie of animals. Purple elephants, Bessy the cow, and cats contemplating a parade of circling fish, are just a few of the animal subjects from this collection that will entertain you as you stitch. Whimsical and unusual describe well the theme of the patterns in Forget-Me-Knots.

Throughout the pages of this book you will find historical insights about album quilts and beautiful patterns. As a bonus, ten quilts, made by Jeana’s students, using different borders, formats and combinations of designs are shown in color in the Galley section.

Complete instructions for making the quilt shown on the cover, are included. Of special note are the detailed instructions given for stitching the double dogtooth border used to frame the traditional swag border of this quilt. Also featured are Jeana’s clear and complete instructions for her template-free, needle-turn applique techniques. These instructions are given with careful explanations and detailed illustrations. This alone is worth the price of the book.

64 pages
Soft cover