Last week, Heather McArthur had us thinking ahead to handmade holiday greetings with Reusable Fabric Art Greeting Card. This week, I’m sharing a quilt with a much bigger message. Clodagh Coker’s Teach Peace Flower Power Quilt is fresh, joyful, and built around a simple idea that never goes out of style: choose peace.
The peace symbol has been recognized for generations, and Clodagh surrounds it with bold flower-power energy in a quilt designed to remind us to carry peace into our hearts, our daily lives, and our relationships. The result is cheerful and graphic, with a message that feels just as meaningful hanging on the wall as it does stitched into the fabric.
skill level Intermediate
time A satisfying quilt project for enjoying applique, patchwork, and a bold graphic design
ideal for Quilters who enjoy meaningful quilts, applique, colorful patchwork, flower power motifs, and projects with a strong visual message
you will practice machine applique, patchwork, accurate piecing, quilting, working with curved motifs, and assembling a statement quilt
finished size 51” x 58” [129.54 x 147.32cm
Teach Peace Flower Power Quilt by Clodagh Coker was featured in ANPTmag Issue 57; photo by Carla A. Canonico for ANPTmag
Clodagh’s Teach Peace Flower Power Quilt appeared in ANPTmag Issue 57, themed Inspired by Words.
Issue 57 was created around words that carried special meaning during the Covid experience. Designers explored gratitude, comfort, family, simplicity, resilience, peace, and other thoughts that came into sharper focus during lockdown. The projects showed many ways to incorporate words and messages into quilting, sewing, knitting, embroidery, and rug hooking, using techniques such as applique, metallic threads, ribbon machine embroidery, and stitched lettering. The result was a heartfelt issue about expressing what mattered most through needlework.
Clodagh’s quilt fits that theme beautifully. Rather than relying on a written phrase, she uses one of the most familiar visual symbols of peace and surrounds it with the bright optimism of flower power. The design combines applique and patchwork in a way that makes the message impossible to miss.
I especially like quilts that say more than just “beautiful.” This one can brighten a room while quietly reminding us of the values we want to bring into it. And at 51” x 58”, it has enough presence to become a real focal point.
What color palette would you use for this quilt?
Get Teach Peace Flower Power Quilt here
https://www.aneedlepullingthread.com/product/teach-peace-flower-power-quilt/
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Check out the intricate quilting in Clodagh Coker’s Teach Peace Flower Power Quilt featured in ANPTmag Issue 57; photo by Carla A. Canonico for ANPTmag
What message would you most like to express in a quilt if you designed it yourself? Let me know!
Join me next week to see which inspiring ANPTmag quilting project I’ll share!