Cherry Wreaths

Two wreaths with dots

There are not many of them in my Encyclopedia of Applique,

mainly because they weren't published as patterns before 1970,

 although there are plenty of them in vintage quilts.

Most people see them as Cherry Wreaths.

My pictures are primarily from details in mid-19th-century album quilts,

particularly in Baltimore,

which is why the pictures are so poor.

Details, details, details.

A couple from Stella Rubin's album inventory

Maybe no pattern company published them because they are so simple, a leaf, a dot and a circle template with embroidered stems and bows optional.

Or maybe no one ever had the heart to write directions that said

for 12 blocks cut 480 cherries.

APQ has a free pattern download. Search for Cherry Wreath APQ

Crib quilt from a 1980 advertisement from Kiracofe & Kile,

Pennsylvania

A reproduction by 

 Edith May Lawson, 1984,

documented by the Indiana project.

You might think it needs something in the center....

Here's the most ambitious.

From Sue Garman's blog. She called it Flower Circle.

Much like one in the Ken Burns collection.

The basics.

Found this leafless wreath floating around in cyberspace.

New? Old?