The applique motif I have come up with here is taken from a pieced and appliqued quilt made by Susan McCord, an Indiana farm woman, in 1860. She appliqued her stem but I have used chain stitch and appliqued on to an old piece of crazy quilt.
Mandy Pattullo is a textile artist and printmaker who works from a studio in a converted manse in Northumberland. www.threadandthrift.blogspot.com documents her textile and design practice while www.mandypattullo.blogspot.com is about her interest in memory, loss and identity in relation to the Victorian cemetery.
You can buy Mandy's work through Etsy here: www.etsy.com/shop/MandyPattullo
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