sampler quilt

Amish Sampler Block of the Month

From  $5 Block of the Month - complete pattern set for the Amish Sampler block of the month. Pattern contains all twelve blocks and finishing instructions. Looks wonderful using other fabrics like Civil War reproduction prints or as a two color quilt.  The completed blocks are sewn together for a 62" x 78" quilt.    Please use the little drop...

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...

Bountiful Baskets Quilt

The Bountiful Basket quilt was designed as a scrap quilt to use all my treasured fabric scraps. I decided to have 5” basket blocks, with one flower representing each of the 50 states. The center medallion basket is point with alternating quarter square triangle blocks, and the small on point basket blocks. The pattern contains three 25” x 40” pattern...

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,...

Hargraves Quilt

  Slow Stitching is Corliss' favorite way to sew - so her quilt is entirely hand stitched. Choose your favorite techniques and methods - it's all about enjoying the process! Hargraves is so named as it was the final design she worked on before leaving Threadbear's counter on Hargraves Street, Castlemaine - heading for semi-retirement. Finished size 86 1/2" x...

Just Takes 2 - Benjamin Biggs Quilt

  Just Takes 2 Block of the Month  - Benjamin Biggs Quilt Retired monthly patterns from the Just Takes 2 -  Benjamin Biggs Quilt presented by Dear Jane and Sentimental Stitches can be purchased here. Individual blocks are no longer available.   Please use the little drop down menu just below the price to select printed or digital pattern.   

Just Takes 2 Quilt

  Just Takes 2 Block of the Month Retired bi-monthly patterns from the Just Takes 2 quilt. This quilt was featured at International Quilt Market and Festival for their Ruby Jubilee.  There are 100 blocks in the quilt. The printed pattern includes nearly 200 pages of patterns and instructions. The patchwork section finishes at 72" x 90".  If you add...

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...

Potluck Block of the Week - Complete Pattern

This is an amazing depression-era sampler quilt. The minute I saw it I knew I had to share it with you. The blocks are made using a variety of techniques in a wide variety of sizes. There are 35 blocks in the quilt with filler strips making it all fit together.  The quilt came from an estate in Plattsmouth, NE....

Scrap Savers Baltimore Album Block of the Month

From  $5 Block of the Month - complete pattern set for the Scrap Savers Baltimore Album Block of the Month. Pattern contains all 13 blocks, border and finishing instructions.   The finished size of the quilt is 88" x 88".    Available as a 80 page pattern.   Please use the little drop down menu just below the price to select...

Seasonal Sampler Block of the Month

From  $5 Block of the Month - complete pattern set for the Seasonal Sampler block of the month. Pattern contains all twelve blocks and finishing instructions for both the quilt and individual wall quilts.  The completed blocks can be sewn together for a 56" x 73" quilt. The completed wall quilts finish at 19" x 23"   Please use the...

Starlight - Starbright Block of the Month

From  $5 Block of the Month - complete pattern set for the Starlight - Starbright block of the month. Pattern contains all 30 blocks and finishing instructions from the 15 month program.  The completed blocks are sewn together for a 59" x 71" quilt.   A great mix of blocks and techniques make this the perfect galaxy of stars stitched with either light...

State Flower Quilt

   There are 48 blocks in the entire series with a diagram of the completed quilt layout. The block size is 7" x 9".  Embroider in the naturalistic colors of the flowers, using the simple, well-known stitches such as outline, lazy-daisy, buttonhole and French knot.  An ivory tone material, slightly darker than unbleached muslin, is even more effective than white...

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...

The English Basket

This is Corliss Searcey's interpretation of the English Medallion Quilt from the early 1800s. These naive baskets are surrounded by borders of hexagon flowers, stars, hearts, and more. You can have great fun with this "busy" quilt and its easy shapes that do not need precise placement to achieve a fabulous look. The complete pattern includes full-size blocks & borders....

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.     

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...