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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. 

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...

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...

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...

Flower Basket Quilt

The Flower Basket quilt is a fantastic design from 1934. Great designs for both applique, embroidery or both. Use them in the pieced baskets of the 12" blocks making up the 76" x 93" quilt or as flower designs in other projects. There are 32 different flowers in beautiful bouquets. The pattern includes copies of the original newspaper clippings. Each...

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...

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.     

Dutch Girls Days of the Week

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...

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 - The Dingles I

A 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 20 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 - 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...