Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Printable Palm Lily Quilt for Dolls

      The palm lily or cordyline fruiticosa depicted in this quilt block is highly stylized. It illustrates the bud version of the flower and the leaves have fewer toothed tips than the majority of palm lily blocks.  I think these attributes give this printable version a modern flavor. However, if the design elements were printed calico, I might think it more primitive. 
       There is much symbolism attached to palm lilies in southeast Asian culture. However, I am unaware of this particular quilt block being developed by anyone who grew up there and claiming to have based it's design on the plant life grown there.
       Lily symbolism in Christian culture represents victory over evil and there have been dozens of varied designs using all kinds of lilies in the western quilting traditions in the recent past. 
       This pattern can be made to look very different depending upon the placement of colors and in some instances the lily pattern might be lost altogether if one did not emphasize the motif carefully through contrasting fabrics.
  • See these tropical palms quilted into designs by AccQuilt... - Their die quilt block would look lovely in a cradle quilt or you could use four blocks with boarders to make a doll cradle quilt.
  • Brenda shares the same free palm pattern excluding flowers. This version could be constructed from four blocks, rotated to sew one large palm for the center of a doll blanket. Enlarge it by adding multiple borders or keep it smaller by binding after sewing only one narrow boarder to it's edges. She demonstrates a paper piecing method on a machine up close.

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