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3030 Quilt - Complete Pattern

You can now purchase the complete pattern to make the special medallion style quilt from the 2021 quilt-along.  Don't worry if 1930s fabrics aren't your style because I designed this quilt so everyone can participate using their favorite fabrics to create a much-loved quilt in a style all their own!    30 different quilt block Medallion style 72" quilt Patchwork...

Antique Quilted Baby Bibs

 These embroidered and quilted bibs are just adorable and perfect for that special little one in your life. Both are actual vintage designs from the F.A. Wurzburg Company, a leading manufacturer of art needlework and kit quilts in the early 1900s. They're surprisingly quite quick and easy to make. Full size patterns and complete instructions for both bibs.    Please...

Big Blue Quilt Pattern

Based on an antique quilt, this is a great design to feature a favorite fabric or use coordinating scraps. I pictured it using indigo blue fabric and a single shirting for the background but you could use 1930s fabrics, Kaffe Fassett, Civil War, or any genre of prints.  Available as digital or printed download pattern   Use the little drop-down...

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...

Colonial Belles

The Colonial Belle designs were available as a kit during the 1930s. The kit was manufactured by Rainbow Block Company and could be ordered through several women’s magazines such as Household Magazine.  The magazine advertisement states— Colonial Belle Quilt Blocks Of course you must have a set of these beautiful Colonial Belle Quilt blocks. We wanted to offer our readers...

Dutch Girls Days of the Week

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...

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...

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.

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.   

Little Blocks 365 - COMPLETE PATTERN

Little Blocks 365 -- COMPLETE PATTERN --   These little gems are so much fun to make. Use any fabrics you'd like. They look great in reproduction prints, solids, Kaffe Fassett, and anything that makes your heart sing. Raid your stash and get started.     365 different 3" foundation paper pieced quilt blocks so all your points are perfect! Color...

May Morn Tulip Vintage Quilt Pattern

Designed by Anne Orr for the Burton-Dixie Corporation. I've looked everywhere for an example of this quilt and so far haven't been able to find one. I can see this made in planned colors or scraps, batiks, Kaffe Fassett, Tula Pink or just about any great collection of fabric. There are instructions for a 72" x 92" or 92' square...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...