Wild Wool & Colorful Cotton Quilts: Patchwork & Appliqué Houses, Flowers, Vines & More

By Erica Kaprow

Make lively medallion quilts with a mix of cotton and wool fabrics.

Cotton and wool . . . together at last! Sew gorgeous wallhangings with a home at the heart. Bestselling author Erica Kaprow shares three new medallion quilts with playful pieced backgrounds and perky appliqué.

Using a mix of cotton and wool fabrics, you’ll hand stitch houses, flowers, vines, and more. Basic appliqué instructions and links to printable full-size patterns are included. With each border, you’ll fall more in love with these textural quilts infused with color!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jun 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781617458477

Erica Kaprow

Erica Kaprow has always enjoyed sewing and making some of her own clothes as a young girl. She also loves hand stitching with contrasting embroidery floss to create different effects. She now switches between cotton and wool quilts because she can’t choose between the two—they both seem to fill different creative needs. She lives in Pennsylvania.

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Publisher: Amy Marson

Creative Director: Gailen Runge

Acquisitions Editor: Roxane Cerda

Managing/Developmental Editor: Liz Aneloski

Pattern Writer: Debbie Rodgers

Technical Editor: Julie Waldman

Cover/Book Designer: April Mostek

Production Coordinator / Illustrator: Tim Manibusan

Production Editor: Alice Mace Nakanishi

Photo Assistant: Rachel Holmes

Photography by Kelly Burgoyne of C&T Publishing, Inc., unless otherwise noted

Published by C&T Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 1456, Lafayette, CA 94549

Just a Guide

I call this just a guide because I know there are many ways to achieve the same effect. This is the way that I do it. I dye most of my own wool, but I also like the challenge of finding a great wool skirt at a thrift store or a garage sale and giving it a new purpose. Make sure the garment has a 100% wool tag on it. You can easily find felted wool on the internet and in local quilt shops. For the cotton fabrics, I use all sorts of quilting-weight prints and solids. If you don’t have your own scrap bins, make friends with some quilters who have a surplus!

NOTES

Overlapping patterns • I drew the patterns as the appliqué appears, not showing the hidden layers. If one shape appears to end under the edge of another, then add an extension to the