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A Flower A Day - Days of the Week

Pattern is a copy of vintage Vogart #215 - A Flower a Day days of the week embroidery for your kitchen. Designs include a Rose, Morning Glory, Sweet Peas, Tulip, Poppy, Daffodil and Pansies. Designs are about 9 1/2" tall. They would be wonderful as individual embroidered pictures or blocks in a small quilt. Omit the wording on each block and...

A Kitten A Day - Days of the Week

Copy from Vogart Pattern 696 Iron-On Transfers - A Kitten A Day To Cheer Your Kitchen. There is an adorable kitty for each day of the week along with designs for tea towels and pot holders, baby bibs, aprons or other kitchen items.  Daily designs are about 7 1/2" tall. This pattern is also available as a digital download.

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...

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...

Cheddarback Block of the Month

 The wonderful Cheddarback Quilt BOM. You can purchase a complete pattern.  Each set includes 1 large block and 4 small block patterns.   Available as digital download patterns Patterns for the Alphabet and Optional Filler Blocks are sold separately.   Use the little drop-down menu just below the price to make your selection and add it to your shopping cart.    

Dear Daughter Block of the Month

  You can purchase the complete set of monthly block sets for the Dear Daughter Quilt.   The blocks are provided full size with a color photo from the antique quilt.  The finished size of the quilt is 86" x 99". There are 42 applique blocks and instructions for setting the quilt together.    Please use the little drop down menu...

Double Star Quilt of Remnants Quilt Pattern

We usually think of the block in this little quilt as Capital T and I was surprised to learn it's a very old pattern from Capper's Weekly called Friendship Quilt  Grab your favorite bits and pieces of fabric to make this 19" x  23" foundation paper pieced little quilt.  Available as digital or printed download pattern   Use the little...

Dutch Girls Days of the Week

Feathered Star Redwork Pattern

Beautiful antique embroidery motifs from the early 1900s and a classic, machine pieced feathered star that’s much easier to sew than it looks. The Finished size is of the wall quilt is 33” square. Complete instructions and full size embroidery patterns. Nine redwork embroidery block designs and a beautiful cable border for redwork embroidery or quilting.

Flower Girl

Adapted from a set of antique quilt blocks from the early 1900s which combine applique and embroidery. This pattern is a true treasure you don’t want to miss. Block size is 11” Make each skirt from a different print for stunning variety in your quilt.   Please use the little drop down menu just below the price to select printed...

Friendship Quilt Pattern

We usually think of the block in this little quilt as Capital T and I was surprised to learn it's a very old pattern from Capper's Weekly called Friendship Quilt  Grab your favorite bits and pieces of fabric to make this 19" x  23" foundation paper pieced little quilt.  Available as digital or printed download pattern   Use the little...

Garden Girl

A very special 11" design featuring applique and embroidery. It was originally used on the corner of a vintage card table cover but would be wonderful as a quilt block or at the ends of a dresser scarf.

Hand Embroidery Stitches at-a-glance

Hand Embroidery - Stitches at-a-glance features complete step-by-step how to for 30 favorite embroidery stitches such as backstitch, blanket/buttonhole stitch, chain stitch, feather stitch, fly stitch, French knot, running stitch, stem stitch and much more. Also, includes dozens of embroidery stitch options to inspire creativity along with tips and techniques. Needle and thread charts for handy reference. Presented in a...

Heartfelt Block of the Week - Complete Pattern

 Available as a digital pattern only This is the complete pattern from one of the 2021 blocks of the week programs making this classic quilt inspired by a circa 1860 antique quilt. Almost all of the blocks are pieced but there's a touch of applique in the center medallion. The antique quilt that inspired this design was indigo blue and white...

Jumbo Letters Days of the Week

Motifs for decorating kitchen towels. Use linen or some other toweling. They are to be done in a variety of colors using embroidery floss.  Each letter measures about 6 1/2" tall. Color suggestions are included. A great, rare vintage set. Design 7077 Please use the little drop down menu just below the price to select printed or digital pattern. 

Kitty & Me

This adorable embroidery design was drafted from an old mending bag made during the early 1900’s. Finished size of the wall quilt with it’s unique applique border is 26” x 26”

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.

Little Blocks 4.5 - Complete Pattern

These "not quite so little" gems are so much fun to make. They're all classic blocks (not the same as the 3" Little Blocks 365. Use your 1930s fabrics or pull out your reproduction prints. How about using solid colors? I'm also thinking about using my Kaffe Fassett fabrics.  Here are the little details -  161 different 4.5" foundation paper...

Little Blues Miniature Quilts

An adorable pattern for two miniature embroidered quilts. Blues Big Hat finishes at 11” x 14”. Yo-Yo Blues is a 12” square featuring twelve 1930s little girls and over 200 yo-yos adorning the sashing. Would be beautiful as redwork quilts!   Please use the little drop down menu just below the price to select printed or digital pattern. 

Little Quilts Squared - Calendar Series Block of the Month - Individual Patterns

 Individual Patterns Only -  Instructions are included for making each month to make a fun and easy 12” quilt for your LITTLE QUILTS collection. These are great for displaying on a 12” x 14” single scroll stand. You can also add the letter blocks to make a cute quilt for your wall, or dress it up and make it functional...

My Wish

This wall quilt is 27” x 33” and features a vintage redwork design from the late 1800’s updated for today’s quilters with a pieced star s and strip border. A great nostalgic sentiment is on their sign. I wish you health I wish you wealth, And a happy home with freedom; And may you always have true friends But never...

Pinwheel Pals Redwork Quilt

Perfect as a wall quilt, small crib quilt or the beginning of a traditional size crib or twin size quilt. This 36” square quilt features a vintage 1920s redwork design used on a summer spread for infants. Pattern quantities are limited at this time

Playtime - Vintage Crib Quilt Pattern

Charming vintage applique and embroidered crib size spread. This one wasn’t originally quilted but you can finish it as either a summer spread or a quilt. The designs size is 24” x 36” for use on a standard crib size quilt of 45” x 60”.

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....

Quilty Gift Bags

It's not too often you find quilty ways to wrap gifts. Here's a darling option!   These are nice quality bags with ribbon handles! Sizes: Small - 7" x 9" Medium - 8" x 10" Large - 10" x 12.5"

Redwork Nights Little Quilt & Doll Clothes

This wonderful pattern has instructions for a 15” x 18” miniature redwork summer spread embroidered with vintage motifs from the 1930s along with dust ruffle, bedding, pillowcases, pillow shams and a nightgown for an 18” doll. What little (or big) girl wouldn’t love this?   Please use the little drop down menu just below the price to select printed or...

Ruby Sue

What a cutie! This 24” x 29” wall quilt features a vintage redwork little girl from the 1930s updated for today. She is working on her own little redwork quilt. Old fashioned photo corner appliques add to the charm.  

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...

Sunbonnet Sue Vintage Quilt Block Pattern

  One of my favorite versions of Sunbonnet Sue. This vintage design is for 10" - 11" quilt block. I used this pattern to make a crib quilt several years ago and still smile each time I see it.    Available as digital or printed download pattern   Use the little drop-down menu just below the price to make your...

Sweet Dreams Vintage Embroidery

One of the prettiest designs I’ve ever stitched. The embroidery design is 12” x 18” so it’s perfect for a cushion or pillow sham. It would make a beautiful center for a mediallion quilt. Stitched with royal blue floss but great for redwork embroidery. 

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...

The Quilters

An antique applique design from a 1930’s mending bag featuring two Bertha Corbett style sunbonnet girls working on their very own yo-yo quilt. Full size applique drawings and piecing instructions for the 22” x 27” quilt.

The Stitcher

A unique antique redwork design featuring a colonial sunbonnet lady stitching among the hollyhocks. She's been the Sentimental Stitches logo since 1996. The design is perfect as this 24” x 28” wall quilt or enlarge the design for the center of a bedspread. The Stitcher was originally used as the embroidery design on an early 1900s mending bag. She was...