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Sunday, January 12, 2025

Pop-In Applique Source Books

 


Variations of the Ladies' Dream or Pomegranate
Sketches of similar designs from my Encyclopedia of Applique

  

I've had a pleasant early winter here working on my Photoshop skills by digitally drawing applique designs and compiling the drawings into booklets---source books for applique design.

A gallery of wreath formats


A few months ago I was working on drawing patterns for the 2025 applique block of the month at my CivilWarQuilts blog Liberty's Birds and I said to myself. "Why am I drawing the same leaf over and over again? What if I made a file of the leaves found in old applique quilts.... And the birds...."

I got better at drawing and coloring.


And the roses---and the tulips.....and the pomegranates... And then I could just pop them into the patterns.  What if...


And then I thought you might like to have a file of roses and tulips and leaves you could use to design traditional applique.

With Galleries of traditional arrangements

And Image Files of the design units.
I'll show you how I use these in the next post.

Buy the booklets in PDF form at my Etsy shop for $15 each:

Pop In Applique

Pop In Applique
Volume 2 Wreaths, Tulips, Pomegranates & Birds, 22 pages:  https://www.etsy.com/listing/1839481886/pop-in-applique-vol-2-of-a-sourcebook?

And I've created a Facebook group. Check it out and post any creations of your own.
PopInAppliqueQuilts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3402219283242703


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