Modern Pattern: A Tile Quilt Rose

Mackintosh Rose 

By Georgann Eglinski

14" x 32"

Georgann used the tile quilt method of applique to create a panel perfect for an Arts and Crafts bungalow. I drew a sketch for her and she figured out the applique. See a free pattern below. 

Our first inspiration was the Mackintosh Rose

or Glasgow Rose; above a painting for a print

by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

The stylized rose was a signature image of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Nice dress!

A Minton planter

Here's a version of the layered rose in a print from my new 

Modernism collection for

 Moda, out in December.

Detail of a Tile Quilt, about 1875

These layered, abstract roses lend themselves well to a 19th-century applique

method related to Crazy quilts. 

In a crazy quilt the patches are attached to a background

fabric with none of the background/foundation fabric showing.

In a tile quilt the foundation is visible as outlines.

Orange Peel Tile Quilt

by Bobbi Finley

2012

Georgann used a solid black foundation

behind her gray dotted secondary background.

I am not going to tell you how to make tile quilts. There is a fabulous book on it by my friends Carol and Bobbi.

Tile Quilt Revival by 

Carol Gilham Jones & Bobbi Finley

Here's the basic info. You can hand or machine applique.
The black background shows through. Prepare the applique pieces by turning the edges under and basting, gluing etc. so that you have a varying black line revealed, which makes it look like it's hand-drawn.

I am offering a paper pattern for the Mackintosh or Instantly Downloadable PDF at my Etsy Store. Here's the shop:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/BarbaraBrackmanShop

And the listing:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/487596028/mackintosh-rose-applique-panel-for-the?ref=shop_home_active_1

Here's a preview of Tile Quilt Revival:
http://www.ctpub.com/client/client_pages/googlepreview.cfm?ISBN=978-1-57120-801-9

See Bobbi Finley's blog with lots of photos of tile quilt applique:
http://bobbifinleytilequilts.blogspot.com/