Wool Appliqué the Piece O’ Cake Way

Becky Goldsmith has spent many years thinking, learning, and teaching color and quilt design. She and Linda Jenkins started the quilt pattern company Piece O’ Cake Designs in 1994. She lives in Sherman, Texas, with her husband.pieceocake.com

November 2015Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins are well known talented applique designers, and between them have written over 30 books. Their latest one looks at applique using wool fabrics mixed with cotton and linen. The first half of the book provides a comprehensive introduction to techniques, including choosing fabric and general quilt making as well as applique. They are clearly written with excellent photographs making the making this a great book for someone who wanted to learn more about the technique. There is a focus on wool fabrics, with a description of the difference between felted wool, and wool felt to prepare them for quilt making and the best threads to use them. The 12 projects are described on the cover as 'cheerful' and the designs include traditional applique motifs such as the quick strawberry pincushions and the longer projects including the stunning vintage gone modern quilt. This is a lovely book to read and look at, the authors have a huge amount of talent for mixing colours and fabric to make bright and modern looking applique.

• Contents Acknowledgments and Dedication Introduction Getting Started Basic Supplies * About Fabric Requirements * Borders Felted Wool, Cotton, and Linen Felted Wool or Wool Felt? * Cotton * Linen Preparing To Stitch Felted Wool Preparation * Always Use Fusible Web for Felted Wool Applique * The Best Threads to Use with Felted Wool * Cotton and Linen Fabric Preparation * Design and Audition General Applique Instructions Preparing Cotton and Linen Backgrounds * Making the Applique Templates * Using Templates for Fusible Applique * Using the Templates on Cotton to Applique with Attitude * Making the Positioning Overlay * Using the Positioning Overlay * Finger-press * Pressing and Trimming the Blocks Stitches for Appliqueing with Felted Wool Choose Thread * The Blanket Stitch * Embellish With A Stem Stitch Special Techniques for Appliqueing with Felted Wool Outer Points * Inner Points * Curves and Circles Applique with Attitude on Cotton The Running Stitch Finishing Techniques Finishing the Quilt * Quilting Felted Wool * Continuous Bias Binding * Straight-Grain Binding from Strips * Sewing Binding to the Quilt * Corded Binding Projects Blue Basket Yoyo Garden Foot Warmer Fruitful Market Basket Strawberry Zip Bag Strawberry Pincushions Kitchen Quilts Leafy Pillows Leafy Table Topper Jamestown Avenue Tulips Do The Polka Yoyo Basket Vintage Gone Modern About the Authors Resources