Dale's Quilling

I have found a new hobby...Quilling !!

I have admired the beautiful work of quilling for years now but no one seemed to be able to tell me how to do it myself.  

Then one day while browsing in my local craft store I saw some of the paper strips for sale.  I bought it and also bought the needle and began to look at other peoples work on the Internet and tried to duplicate it. I was hooked after trying to make just one little flower.

Then I found the book of "Paper Quilling" by Malinda Johnston, it is a great book.  It showed me all the steps and some beautiful examples of what to make.

Little quilled flowers make excellent embellishments for your Scrapbooking pages too.

I will post my work here so you can enjoy it or copy it.  If you need exact measurements then just e-mail me.  They look much better in person.

These are on cardstock and are ... 4 1/2 X 3 3/4.  I put them on a little black

easel that you can purchase for about 79 cents.

They are adorable.

This is my first piece...I gave it to a person in our church 

who was burned very badly.

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I gave this to a friend who has been having really bad back pain.

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I gave this to my precious daughter, Michelle, on her 41st birthday.

She really has been a perfect daughter.

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I just learned to make fringed flowers...yippee!

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This little parasol just sits on an easel

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History of Quilling

Paper filigree is a very old craft dating back to  the 13th or 14th centuries.

Paper filigree enjoyed extensive popularity in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and was crafted by several important women of the time, Jane Bonte, Queen Elizabeth, and It was tied to the beginning of papermaking which originated in China. 

During the 15th century, French and Italian monks and nuns recycled the edges of old documents and books into strips and wound them to resemble scrolls and coils to decorate icons and pilgrimage mementos. 

Some boarding schools at that time offered classes in paper filigree. Quilling was considered to be an appropriate hobby for
the fashionable ladies of the time. As a result, many women of the upper and middle classes became expert quillers.  

It also spread to North America with the settlers  and this is where it picked up it's current name of "quilling," probably because they may have used feather quills to wind the paper around to make the coils.

In the Colonial Williamsburg collection, in Williamsburg, Virginia, there are two cribbage boards, made sometime between 1790-1810.

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