{"id":482,"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-2\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T20:50:00","slug":"sunbonnet-sue-the-darling-of-applique-quilts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/sunbonnet-sue-the-darling-of-applique-quilts-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Sunbonnet Sue – The Darling of Applique Quilts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nFor centuries needleworkers have embellished cloth by adding
\nlayers of fabric in pictorial  designs
\nof religious and folk art themes.  In
\nrenaissance Europe this technique was considered a form of embroidery, known as
\n\u201cintasia\u201d embroidery from the Italian for \u201cinlay\u201d.<\/div>\n
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\nIn American quilt making tradition, initial appliqu\u00e9 was
\ntermed Broderie Perse (Persian Embroidery) in which elements were cut from
\nprinted chintz fabrics and sewn onto a plain ground. At times, borders were
\ndecorated with designs cut from scraps of plain or small-print cloth.  This would become the definition of American
\nappliqu\u00e9 where entire designs were created from small pieces of overlaid fabric
\nor \u201cpatchwork\u201d. Applique embellishments were popular for garments and household
\nlinens.<\/div>\n
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\nAs with all trends, rises in popular techniques are often
\nfollowed by declines and by the end of the 19thC \u201cpiecework\u201d in which fabric
\n\u201cpieces\u201d were sewn together to form units became popular.  These units were then joined to form the
\nquilt or garment.  This was further
\naugmented by the increasing popularity of purchased commercial patterns and
\nquilt kits with pre-cut shapes ready for stitching.<\/div>\n
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\nBy the 1920\u2019s appliqu\u00e9 was back, due in part to the
\nproduction of colorful small-print Amercian-made fabrics.  At this time, also, arose children\u2019s d\u00e9cor
\nwith quilts, linens and china created just for the small ones in the
\nfamily.  Prior to this, many of these
\nitems were simply smaller versions of full-sized adult products.  <\/div>\n
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\nNow we come to Sunbonnet Sue.  There were early versions of this design, these versions were
\nactually outlined embroidery.  In 1910 Sunbonnet
\nSue first appeared as a pattern for an appliqu\u00e9 child quilt. The design for
\nthis bonneted little girl came from the postcards and books by British
\nillustrator Kate Greenaway in the late 1800\u2019s. 
\nIn America, Bertha Corbett published The Sunbonnet Babies Primer in 1902
\nfrom which many, many first graders learned to read.<\/div>\n
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\nPost cards reproduced from original Sunbonnet Pictures.  Merrimack Publishing Corp., N.Y.<\/div>\n
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\nThere have been hundreds variations of this design,
\nincluding a small boy companion called Sam.<\/div>\n
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\nEmbroidered Sunbonnet Sue quilt blocks<\/div>\n
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\nSue’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":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","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\/482","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}