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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...

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...

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...

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...

Little Lulu Days of the Week

Pattern is a copy of a vintage 1940s embroidery and applique pattern to make Little Lulu Days of the Week Tea Towels. Washing Monday, Ironing Tuesday, Sewing Wednesday, Marketing Thursday, Cleaning Friday, Baking Saturday and Church Sunday. Sweet Little Lulu measures about 7" tall Please use the little drop down menu just below the price to select printed or digital...

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...

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...

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...

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. . 

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. 

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...

Gremlins Day of the Week

An unusual and interesting set of vintage designs for needlework. They feature cute little horned, gremlins hanging laundry, ironing, etc. Each little gremlin motif is about 6 1/2" - 7" tall. Please use the little drop down menu just below the price to select printed or digital pattern.