Today is National Polka Dot Day.
Now, if you are a stickler for definitions
the block above from Sue Garman's blog is not a polka dot.
Polka dots are circles set in a half drop repeat, a diagonal grid
like the dress the fashionable Princess Louise is wearing below.
Sculptors Joseph Boehm and Princess Louise,
(Victoria's daughter)
However, it is a good day to consider appliqueing dots.
Border by Minnie Crawford Umstead
From the Indiana project & the
Quilt Index
Nancy Clements Adams from the Kentucky project & the
Quilt Index
For Better or for Worse
From the Pat Nickols Collection at the Mingei Museum
Elizabeth Scott Schockley from the Indiana project & the
Quilt Index
UPDATE:
This antique from Ken Burns's collection is very much
like the one at the top of the page. See the article in the New York Times
about his collection:
Polka or not, I love to applique "dots". And, I would love to see the exhibition of Ken Burns' quilts! P.s., I didn't see the spectacular "Dottie" photoshopped on any of these. Hope she is o.k.
ReplyDeleteDottie is good. At 11 the dots over her eyes, which used to be brown, are now white.
ReplyDeleteYou had me at Dots - its is my favorite applique detail. I love Ken's quilt and wish I could make it to the exhibit.
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