{"id":142,"date":"2013-06-28T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/sunbonnet-sue-the-darling-of-applique-quilts\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T20:50:00","slug":"sunbonnet-sue-the-darling-of-applique-quilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/sunbonnet-sue-the-darling-of-applique-quilts.html","title":{"rendered":"Sunbonnet Sue – The Darling of Applique Quilts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For centuries needleworkers have embellished cloth by adding layers of fabric in pictorial  designs of religious and folk art themes.  In renaissance Europe this technique was considered a form of embroidery, known as \u201cintasia\u201d embroidery from the Italian for \u201cinlay\u201d.<\/div>\n
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In American quilt making tradition, initial appliqu\u00e9 was termed Broderie Perse (Persian Embroidery) in which elements were cut from printed chintz fabrics and sewn onto a plain ground. At times, borders were decorated with designs cut from scraps of plain or small-print cloth.  This would become the definition of American appliqu\u00e9 where entire designs were created from small pieces of overlaid fabric or \u201cpatchwork\u201d. Applique embellishments were popular for garments and household linens.<\/div>\n
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As with all trends, rises in popular techniques are often followed by declines and by the end of the 19thC \u201cpiecework\u201d in which fabric \u201cpieces\u201d were sewn together to form units became popular.  These units were then joined to form the quilt or garment.  This was further augmented by the increasing popularity of purchased commercial patterns and quilt kits with pre-cut shapes ready for stitching.<\/div>\n
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By the 1920\u2019s appliqu\u00e9 was back, due in part to the production of colorful small-print Amercian-made fabrics.  At this time, also, arose children\u2019s d\u00e9cor with quilts, linens and china created just for the small ones in the family.  Prior to this, many of these items were simply smaller versions of full-sized adult products.  <\/div>\n
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Now we come to Sunbonnet Sue.  There were early versions of this design, these versions were actually outlined embroidery.  In 1910 Sunbonnet Sue first appeared as a pattern for an appliqu\u00e9 child quilt. The design for this bonneted little girl came from the postcards and books by British illustrator Kate Greenaway in the late 1800\u2019s.  In America, Bertha Corbett published The Sunbonnet Babies Primer in 1902 from which many, many first graders learned to read.<\/div>\n
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Post cards reproduced from original Sunbonnet Pictures.  Merrimack Publishing Corp., N.Y.<\/div>\n
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There have been hundreds variations of this design, including a small boy companion called Sam.<\/div>\n
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Embroidered Sunbonnet Sue quilt blocks<\/div>\n
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Sue’s friend Sam<\/div>\n
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Sunbonnet Sue- The Darling of Appliqu\u00e9 Quilts For centuries needleworkers have embellished cloth by adding layers of fabric in pictorial  designs of religious and folk art themes.  In renaissance Europe this technique was considered a form of embroidery, known as \u201cintasia\u201d embroidery from the Italian for \u201cinlay\u201d. In American quilt making tradition, initial appliqu\u00e9 was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applique","category-childrens-quilts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}