Michele Hill's More William Morris Applique

Michele Hill's second book on William Morris applique is out!

Here's the cover quilt Morning Glory.

She certainly made good use of the reds in The Morris Workshop line.

The border, featured on the cover, uses the Iris print

by John Dearle from that 2010 Morris Workshop collection for Moda.

Read more about the print here at my blog post

http://siputflash.blogspot.com/2009/09/morris-workshop-designers.html

Thanks, Michele.

The subtitle is

"Spectacular Quilts and Accesories for the Home"

Here's a specatacular quilt

Floral Fantasy.

Not in the usual Wm. Morris range

And some accessories Willie woulda loved

Journals

See Michele's blog

William Morris and Michele

http://williammorrisandmichele.blogspot.com/

She has information about her fabrics and publications.

The new book is Australian so it will be awhile before

 it's at your local quiltshop if you're in another hemisphere.

Keep checking

and ask your quilt shop owner to check with her usual distributors.

Here's Michele's first book.

My current William Morris reproduction collection in shops now is A Morris Tapestry.

http://www.unitednotions.com/fcc_a_morris_tapestry.pdf

A Morris Tapestry

My third collection of William Morris reproduction prints will be in quilt shops next month. It's called A Morris Tapestry. Check out Moda's web page and the Fabric: What's New pages by clicking here:

http://www.unitednotions.com/un_main.nsf/mf_new

You can download a PDF of the fabrics and an overview of the project sheet.
http://www.unitednotions.com/fcc_a_morris_tapestry.pdf

We're using William Morris's popular design called the Strawberry Thief as the signature print.

Above is a photo of Morris's cotton print (1883) which used reds and yellows with his favorite indigos to obtain a multicolored print.

Here are the rest of the five colorways for Strawberry Thief in A Morris Tapestry

The Strawberry Thief refers to the thrushes in Morris's garden who stole from his fruit crop.

Those pretty little vandals have a distinctive spotted breast inspiring many crafters to adapt Morris's design to various techniques and formats.

Read more about the appliqued pattern I did that's available from Kansas City Star patterns.

http://siputflash.blogspot.com/2009/06/strawberry-thief.html

Beth Russell has designed needlepoint kits

Click here for more information on Russell's kits

http://needlepointus.com/search.asp?nobox=&scat=&stext=William+Morris&stype=&sprice=&pg=1

Michelle Hill has appliqued patterns too

Click here to read more:

http://www.michelehill.com.au/index.php?act=viewDoc&docId=3 

A digital search for Strawberry Thief finds a variety of gift items for the William Morris fan. Because his patterns are in the public domain and because they are so classic you can find them everywhere.

Buy a pair of shoes

http://www.zazzle.com/william_morris_strawberry_thief_pattern_shoes-167198920505420937 

Apparently J.Crew did a shirt a while ago.

1982 British Postage Stamp

The Beautiful Necessity blog has a post on "Thieving Strawberry Thief" with some other examples

http://thebeautifulnecessity.blogspot.com/2009/02/thieving-strawberry-thief.html

Let's just hope that William Morris never hears about this marketing trend.

Tennis shoes with the Strawberry Thief might have upset him. I do hope he'd be pleased with the quilt fabric reproductions and all the throw pillows though.

William Morris Reproductions—Prints and Patterns

Ode to William Morris

by Ruth Berke

Designed by Patricia Cox

Ruth writes that she is looking for more William Morris reproduction fabrics. Can we ever get enough? She's taking a class from Patricia Cox who designed the above block and needs more fabric. I can see Ruth's used several prints from my first Morris Garden reproduction collection introduced about two years ago.

I am working on a third collection that will be in quilt shops in late fall. I'll be calling it A Morris Tapestry.

And Michele Hill, author of William Morris in Applique, writes on her blog that she will be doing a Morris-inspired line for In The Beginning Fabrics:

It will be very William Morris like (of course!) – not reproductions though – all new designs. And how wonderful that it is to be called “The Adelaide Collection” ....our home!

Here's Michele's blog post:
http://williammorrisandmichele.blogspot.com/2010/04/exciting-news.html
The Adelaide Collection will be shown at Quilt Market this week so ask your quilt shop owner to buy EVERYTHING William Morris that she sees.

Michele's new Australian book More William Morris Applique will be out soon.

She's used The Morris Workshop fabrics in the quilt shown in detail above.

More Morris Inspiration:

Carolyn More, William Morris Goes Aussie

Carolyn's sewing group all made quilts from this Shadow Box design they saw in an Australian magzine---a great way to use the 10" precuts that Moda calls Layer Cakes. Carolyn combined the fabrics from my Morris Workshop collection with a cheery blue batik. I think the pattern is from Mountain Peek.

Ode to William Morris by Patricia Cox

Here's Pat Cox's version of her pattern. Find out more by clicking here at her website:

http://www.patriciacox.net/id22.html

And click here to see blogger Ann Marie's octagon quilt made with The Morris Workshop

http://amsewing.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-love-you-william-morris.html

Reproduction Quilt Blogs

Ocean Waves by Barbara Brackman, 2002, Quilted by Rosie Mayhew, 42 x 51"

I'm a fan of reproduction quilts. I make them myself and many of my quilting friends look to antique quilts for color, pattern and design ideas. Above is one I made from some of my earlier Moda reproduction fabrics.

I spend a lot of work avoidance time reading blogs about reproduction quilts. (Can't I call that work since they are so inspirational?) Here's my list of blogs that picture old quilts and the new quilts inspired by them.

Click here for Kathie Holland's blog, called Inspired by Antique Quilts. http://inspiredbyantiquequilts.blogspot.com/

The Dedicated Appliquist from Penelope Tucker features English culture, French fabric and applique reproductions:
http://penelopetucker.wordpress.com/
Here's Penny's reproduction for the American Quilt Study Group "Study in Red and Green."

And here's Deb Rowden's piece for the same quilt study.

Click here to read Deb Rowden's Thrift Shop Quilts
http://debrowden.blogspot.com/

Above, a new Flag Quilt from Jan Patek who puts her own twist on antique patterns at
Jan Patek's Girl Gang
http://janpatek.blogspot.com/

Click here to read more about Jan's new book Flags of the American Revolution:

https://www.pickledishstore.com/productDetail.php?PID=1138

Michele Hill specializes in interpreting William Morris design in applique. Click here to see William Morris in Applique
http://williammorrisandmichele.blogspot.com/

Above is a block by Elizabeth McMahon, who is making the Civil War Bride Quilt, a close version of the American Folk Art Museum's Bird of Paradise quilt. Click here to watch her progress:
http://thecivilwarbridequilt.blogspot.com/
And see a picture of the original at the American Folk Art Museum's website
http://www.folkartmuseum.org/default.asp?id=1523

It's at the bottom of the diagram of quilts.

Two more bloggers for fans of the reproduction look:

Above a copy from Ann Champion's own collection. Click here to see Ann Champion's Blog
http://annchampion.com/

And below an unusual pattern found in Tennessee and Texas at Janet's Quiltsalott blog. Click here: http://quiltsalott.blogspot.com/

Send me comments recommending other blogs about reproduction quilts that I am missing.