vintage quilt

A Mother's Gift Quilt Pattern

Full size block patterns for the beautiful, Pennsylvania sampler quilt made by Barbara Butcher Snyder in the late 1800s. Wonderful, intricate, 4 1/2” blocks set together with a wide, double pink sashing. Each block has a color print if you want to replicate the original colors. Finished size is 81” x 91” (photograph used with permission) Foundation Paper Piecing Patterns...

Auntie Tess Quilt Pattern

This amazing quilt was inspired by vintage powder compact. Corliss Searcey has created another masterpiece quilt with her latest design. It's a great combination of applique with a little bit of patchwork. The pattern for the complete quilt includes color photographs, full sized pattern sheets & instructions. This quilt is 82 3/4" x 82 3/4" finished. A masterpiece for those who love...

Baby Days Quilt

You're going to love the adorable embroidered blocks in this quilt. Each one features an activity in a baby's day. The embroidery isn't difficult and designs are full size, ready to trace on your blocks. Quilt assembly instructions and a quilting design to use in the sashing is also included. The finished size of the quilt is 34" x 44"...

Caswell Quilt

Circa 1835 - This stunning quilt was inspired by the famous Caswell Carpet which resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  Thirty appliquéd blocks of flowers & leaves, birds & butterflies adorn this quilt.  The pattern includes full-size blocks and individual color photos of all blocks. Finished size 71" x 82" Check out my Caswell Quilt board...

Celebrating Mary Brown Quilt Pattern

Circa 1851 - This stunning quilt was inspired by the famous Mary B Brown applique quilt sold at Christie's Auction House in 1991 for $49,500. Corliss Searcey has outdone herself with this fantastic pattern for the complete quilt including color photographs of all blocks, full sized pattern sheets & instructions. This quilt is 90" x 90" finished and includes 44 individual blocks,...

Civil War Bride

By Corliss Searcey - Here’s a fabulous quilt in the style of 'The Bird of Paradise quilt' in the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. Heavily appliquéd blocks of flowers & leaves, birds & butterflies, animals and fruit. 68” square — Indulge your passion for appliqué!The complete pattern includes full size blocks & borders   Available as a...

Designs for Hand Embroidery - Set 1

Here's a group of vintage designs for redwork or colored thread embroidery. They are 8" designs    Please use the little drop down menu just below the price to select printed or digital pattern. 

Dutch Girls Days of the Week

Embroider Me - Designs for Embroidery - Meet the Dingles

A great group of vintage Dolly Dingle designs. You'll enjoy the classic look of the early 1900s designs based on the drawings and illustrations of Grace Drayton. This pattern includes a selection of 11 designs of both boys and girls. Each character is about 9" tall, perfect for use on quilt blocks and other embroidery projects. Patterns are ready to...

Embroider Me - Designs for Embroidery - The Dingles II

Another classic group of vintage Dolly Dingle designs. You'll enjoy the adorable antics of these little boys and girls adapted from  the early 1900s drawings and illustrations of Grace Drayton. This pattern includes a selection of 21 different designs. Each character is about 9" tall, perfect for use on quilt blocks and other embroidery projects. Patterns are ready to trace...

Embroider Me - Designs for Embroidery & Applique - Collection 1

The first in a series of vintage designs for applique and embroidery. There are 108 designs in a variety of sizes from 3" to 11" including flowers, fruit, animals, household items, people, children's designs and much more. Many designs are provided in multiple sizes. Designs are ready to transfer to fabric and begin your stitching. Perfect for redwork, color thread...

Embroider Me - Designs for Embroidery & Applique - Collection 2

The second in a series of vintage designs for applique and embroidery. There are 23 designs for tinted and embroidered cloth dolls. Most of the dolls have both front and back designs. They range in size from 8" to 12". The patterns are printed just as they were in the early 1900s when they were stamped on fabric and sold...

Flurry Quilt Pattern

Flurry is a graphic and modern snowflake quilt perfect for making a statement in your winter decor! Bright colors on a black background are striking too! This advanced beginner pattern uses raw-edge applique and includes suggestions for resizing the quilt from baby to king. The pattern includes directions for five sizes: 36"x 36" baby quilt, 60"x 60" throw quilt, 70"x...

French Bouquet Quilt

The French Bouquet quilt is a great example of some of the vintage applique quilt patterns presented through the Nancy Page Club during the early 1900's. There are twelve pretty bouquets of flowers like little nosegays. Each bouquet is different and tied with a little bow. In addition to the bouquets there are fifteen designs used in the border of...

Fruit Block Quilt

A beautiful and unique quilt pattern by Margaret Techy.  The set includes 25 fruit blocks and instructions to complete the 63” x 81” quilt. Each design has a description of the fruit and color suggestions for embroidery or appliqué.  Patterns include: Apple, Cherry, Plum, Elderberry, Peach, Pear, Currant, Grape, Orange, Lemon, Apricot, Strawberry, Blackberry, Raspberry, Grapefruit, Pineapple, Gooseberry, Date, Fig,...

Hollyhock Kids Pattern

A wonderful 1920’s antique design combining applique and embroidery that features two little girls picking flowers for their basket. Design size is 18” x 25” for use on a standard crib quilt of 45” x 60”. The original design was finished as a summer spread with no batting.

Ideal School Supply Drawings Book

 This late 1800s school book was used for art classes. It’s filled with 50 drawings perfect for redwork, embroidery, applique or tinting. There are leaves, fruit, flowers, animals, children, seasonal, fairies and more to choose from. Please use the little drop down menu just below the price to select printed or digital pattern. . 

Lady Jane Quilt Pattern

Raid your stash or gather together a beautiful group of blue and white fabrics to make this 76" x 90" quilt or 46" x 46" wall quilt.

Lookout - Tree and Animal Sampler Quilt Pattern

This fat quarter-friendly forest quilt can be made in three sizes, each featuring a bear, deer, and rabbit hiding among the trees. Everything is pieced using conventional patchwork techniques. No templates or paper piecing!Baby Quilt = 40" x 45"Lap Quilt = 56" x 60"Picnic Quilt = 72" x 75"

Midget Blocks - Applique

A set of 52 unique 4 1/2" applique quilt blocks to be used alone or along side the pieced Midget Blocks. This first collection has a wide variety of designs including classic floral applique, baskets, art deco designs, hearts, fruit, baskets, individual flowers, Sunbonnet Sue and much more. Some of the blocks are adapted from my antique collection and some...

Midget Blocks Quilt Patterns

Patterns and instructions for the Midget Blocks from the 1930s Week by Week Sampler quilt but in a 4 1/2" finished size. They are constructed in a variety of techniques including foundation piecing, applique, machine and hand piecing depending on which one is the easiest way to construct that particular block.  There are a total of 196 blocks in the collection totaling...

Mother Goose Quilt Series Pattern

The Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme quilt was published weekly in The Detroit News. There are suggestions for floss colors on each block. If made as designed, the finished size well be approximately 58" x 78". The 20 blocks include:  Mother Goose, Hi Diddle, Diddle, Jack Be Nimble, Little Tommy Tucker, Mary and Her Lamb, Old King Cole, Polly Put the...

Old English Quilt

 Each circular design is adapted from old English embroideries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Many of them were seen at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The twenty five circular designs measures six inches finished size. After they are embroidered, they are appliqued to your background fabric and a quilting design completes this unique look. This quilt was...

Pennies in my Garden

This quilt is 72" square and is perfect for a lap quilt, bed  topper or a wall hanging.  It was inspired by a few wool rugs that I own.  It will fit right on the top of a king sized bed along the edge of the mattress or would look wonderful on the diagonal, draping off of the sides on...

Pop Tart Applique Block of the Week

This program has already started.  You may still register below - You'll receive your Supply List shortly after registration via SendOwl. Your first blocks will arrive via email within 48 hours.   ***Shortly after signing up, you'll receive an email via SendOwl with a link to your Supply List. The minute I saw this quilt I knew it had...

Snowbabies

 These adorable little Snowbabies are a joy to embroider as redwork designs or with a selection of your favorite colors. The twelve blocks are sewn together with a pieced sash and cornerstone setting. A simple border with room for quilting completes the 52" x 65" quilt. Patterns are full size and ready to use. Please use the little drop down...

Sparkling Stars and Pinwheels

The perfect scrap quilt to use up all those little bits of fabric you have and leftovers from precuts. Rotary cut, machine pieced and precut friendly so you can use jelly roll strips, charm packs and layer cakes. This quilt is what I like to call a “Percolator Project” because you can work on it while you work on other...

Sunbeam Babies

"These are just about the cutest "babies" I have seen, with their old-fashioned dresses and bonnets with ruffles." Those are the words Ruby Hinson Duncan used to describe these adorable 1902 little Sunbeam Babies. The twelve blocks are for use on 8" or larger quilt blocks. Patterns are full size and ready to use.   Please use the little drop...

Sweet William Quilt Pattern

Susan Smith was inspired by one of my favorite antique quilts to create her Sweet William quilt. I'm thrilled to bring this talented Australian designer's wonderful pattern to you . The quilt has easy to piece baskets filled with a variety of applique blossoms. There are patterns for 36 blocks in this 67" quilt. The original quilt was circa 1860...

The Birds & The Bees

You can stitch these adorable birds and bees on a variety of projects. Perfect for colored thread or redwork embroidery, they are ready to trace and stitch. Sized for tea towels or quilt blocks. Fourteen designs - six birds (days of the week) and eight bees. Bird designs are 7" - 9". Bee designs are 4" - 9". A great...

Tootsey Quilt - Redwork Embroidery

 78 redwork embroidery designs from an antique quilt top in my personal collection. Flowers, Angels, Children, Politicians and the Tootsey block itself. Designs are perfect for 9" redwork embroidery blocks. Please use the little drop down menu just below the price to select printed or digital pattern.     

Uptown Applique Block of the Month - Complete Pattern

From the moment I saw this circa 1800s antique quilt I knew it was one I wanted to recreate and share with all of you. The original has faded and is worn from being loved through the years yet its beauty shines through. Use your reproduction prints or jump into a new century with Kaffe Fasset prints.   21 different applique...

Week by Week 1930s Sampler

A fantastic collection of 187 – 4” quilt blocks and instructions for assembling the quilt. The blocks are all designs that were offered by mail in newspapers around the country during the 1920s and 1930s. You’ll receive photos of this beautiful antique quilt, color suggestions and a full size block drawing for pattern. Finished size of the pictured quilt is...