Free pattern day! Red and White quilts (part 1)

Today we're featuring free patterns for sparkling Red and White quilts!  (For Part 2 of this series, CLICK HERE.) To go to a pattern: Scroll down the page until you see the quilt you like, then click on the words "CLICK for PDF download" (or the hyperlinked website name) in the title above the quilt.

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Coonawarra Red quilt, ~60 x 60", free pattern by Helen Stubbings for Red Rooster Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Flurry mini quilt, 15"square, by Gudrun Erla for Aurifil (CLICK for PDF download)

Pointed Possibilities Quilt in 6 sizes, free pattern by Gina Tell for Fat Quarter Shop (CLICK for PDF download)  

Stitch Pink Quilt Along, 30 free block patterns at Moda Fabrics; photo by Fat Quarter Shop (CLICK for pattern page)

Graphic Red quilt, free pattern for bed size quilt at McCall's Quilting (CLICK for PDF download)

Heirloom Red quilt, 63" square, free pattern at Riley Blake Designs (CLICK for PDF download)

Churn It Up quilt, 52 x 52", free pattern at Maywood Studio (CLICK for PDF download)

Scandi Quilt 2018, 60 x 75", free pattern by Lynne Goldsworthy for Andover Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Friendship quilt, 78 x 78", free pattern at Moda Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Winter Garden quilt, free pattern by Tanya Whelan for Free Spirit Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Slumber Party quilt, 69 x 83", free pattern at Connecting Threads (CLICK for tutorial) 

Tear Drops quilt, ~40 x 40", free pattern at Exclusively Quilters (CLICK for PDF download)

It's Hip to Be Square, 42 x 54", free pattern by Marinda Stewart for Michael Miller Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Diamond Day quilt, 70 x 90", free pattern at Robert Kaufman Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Gallery in Red, 85 x 85", free pattern by Jean Ann Wright for Marcus Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Jolene Quilt, 56 x 76", free pattern at Blank Quilting (CLICK for PDF download)

Flurry pillow, free pattern at Fat Quarter Shop (CLICK for PDF download)

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Halloween Shenanigans

Happy Halloween! We love Halloween quilts and decorations and are always looking out for cute designs. Here is a fun embroidery quilt in black and white with orange sashing borders.

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Halloween Shenanigans (2022) by Mary Anne Ciccotelli (Provo, Utah)

Mary Anne Ciccotelli says, "Redwork is a form of American embroidery that was developed in the 19th century and was particularly popular between 1855 and 1925. This project is a fun play on that technique, but done in white/black." Pumpkins, witches, bats, cobwebs and skeletons play among the blocks. The border is filled with embroidered bones.

Mary Anne explains, "I started the embroidery blocks to keep my hands busy during my recovery from total knee replacement surgery.  Embroidery Designs' machine embroidery designs were the inspiration for these hand-embroidered blocks... additional embroidery work was designed and added to the borders."

 Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2024 Springville (Utah) quilt show.

Floral Album Quilts: A Trilogy of Techniques

Are you looking forward to spring flowers?  Here is a trilogy of wall quilts celebrating floral basket blocks. Janet Rupp created the quilts using three different techniques: machine applique, hand applique, and redwork, giving a totally different look to each quilt.

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Trilogy 2020-2021 by Janet Rupp (Tucson, Arizona)

These flower baskets are bursting with a variety of colors and flower types. Janet's outstanding machine applique is shown here, complemented with embroidery on the flowers and leaves. 

The block patterns are from two sources: Applique Masterpiece: Little Brown Bird patterns by Elizabeth Docherty; and a Sonoran "Roseville Album" block-of-the-month project at Cactus Quilt Shop (Tucson, Arizona). 

Trilogy 2020-2021 by Janet Rupp

Precision hand applique was combined with hand embroidery, highlighting the floral details of each block as shown in the closeup photo below.

Trilogy 2020-2021 by Janet Rupp

This gorgeous redwork adaptation of the designs is so cheerful. Many hours of work must have gone into this creation. The echo quilting, done by machine, highlights the shapes of the flowers and baskets. 

Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2022 Tucson Quilters Guild show.

Christmas 2020 (part 4)

As Christmas approaches, we wish you good health and peace of mind.  Here is a beautiful red-and-white quilt embroidered with snowmen enjoying the pleasures of winter.

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Winter Wonderland, 64x 71,  by Judy Getch, quilted by Rose Maynes

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Judy won Third Place for her lovely quilt at 2020 Quilt Arizona ! show in Mesa, Arizona. She explains, "I started this quilt at a class taught by Marilyn Williams at the quilt shop in Wickenburg, Arizona, in 2013. It took me five years to get it finished."  

Judy adds, "I loved doing the hand embroidery, but it was pretty slow. " We think Judy did an absolutely spectacular job on these adorable, playful snowmen. Her accuracy and precision in redwork embroidery is amazing ! We can clearly see every detail of these cute scenarios. Here are the snowmen flying down the hill in an old-fashioned toboggan; and below, they are merrily and loudly singing Christmas carols.

The Winter Wonderland pattern is available for purchase at Crabapple Hill Studio. The pattern package even includes recipes. These whimsical scenes are sure to lend brightness to even the the darkest of winter days. 

Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2020 Quilt Arizona show.

Christmas 2020 (part 2)

As Christmas approaches, we wish you good health and peace of mind.  Here is a quilt embroidered with snowmen, bringing to mind this quote by Pietro Aretino:

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

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I Believe in Snowmen by Rod Ohmart, 56 x 64,  quilted by Debbie Stanton

This very pretty quilt pattern, from  Anne Sutton of Bunny Hill Designs, caught our eye at the 2020 Quilt Arizona ! show. For those readers who may be interested, this redwork embroidery and applique pattern is available for purchase at this shop on etsy.com

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Quiltmaker Rod Ohmart explains, "This was the first quilt I have made from beginning to end. I enjoyed embroidering the designs and piecing the quilt." 

I Believe In Snowmen contains log cabin blocks set en pointe, along with appliques of houses, a Christmas tree, and a reindeer. Interspersed with the patchwork are blocks of whimsical snowmen in various poses, designed in folk-art style. For an interesting free video tutorial on how to do the embroidery on this quilt, check out  designer Anne Sutton's instructional video here.

Longarm quilter Debbie Stanton did a lovely and creative job on this quilt. This pattern of spirals reminds us of wind blown clouds of snow drifting through the sky, ready to softly drop fresh powder, ready to be formed into new batches of snow people. 

 Image credits:  Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2020 Quilt Arizona show.

Happy Valentine's Day! (2)

Happy Valentine's Day 2019! We love this holiday, dedicated to friendship, love, and romance. Join us as we take a look at some of these red and white quilts which celebrate such a fun time of the year!

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Zen in Red by Marjory Peck, Arizona, quilted by Marjory Peck

Honorable Mention winner Marjorie notes, "I love the Zentangle drawings, but I am not a doodler. This is my version of doodling with fabric. The idea of only using two colors to make an applique quilt inspired me to do this design for the Arizona Quilters Guild theme challenge." (40th anniversary Ruby Extravaganza).

Close-up, Zen in Red

We really like how nicely  these red and white fabrics go together ! They are all the same shade of red, but there's so much variety in the type of prints displayed here. What a fun, lively project.

Red Licorice by Shirley Johnson, Arizona, quilted by Shirley Johnson

Shirley states, "[This is a] published design by Jill Finley. As my first-ever log cabin quilt, Jill Finley's 'Red Licorice' design is spot on for me; it's modernly old fashioned."

Shirley quilted this lovely work herself. She did a wonderful, precise job with both the applique and patchwork motifs.

Be My Valentine by Jan Redding, Arizona, quilted by Diane Pugh

Jan explains, "[The redwork embroidery] was a design from Bird Brain Designs. I  embroidered the redwork hearts by hand from the "Hearts and Flowers" pattern. I chose a simple nine patch setting to highlight the redwork." 

Close-up, Be My Valentine

Jan adds, "This quilt combines my two favorite things..quilting and embroidery." This intricate  redwork is beautifully done and stands out so well against the white background.

Red and White Explosion by Margaret Willingham, Colorado, quilted by Margaret Willingham

Margaret says of her original design,  "Simplicity. Elegance. Redemption. A dance of positive and negative space in red and white. I love the exciting simplicity of two color quilts. I love red, I love to applique and reverse applique by hand, and I love to hand quilt. "

Close-up, Red and White Explosion

Margaret continues, "This original quilt design with 17 unique bursting blocks inspired by architecture of the Victorian Era, brings together all these loves, just for the fun of it." Here's a close-up, above, of Margaret's very painstaking work, done with elegant, tiny stitches.

Red Regale by Kristen Webb, Utah, quilted by Kirsten Webb

Kirsten remarks, "I love red and white quilts, and Red Regale is the latest one. The block design was adapted from a block seen on Pinterest. This was a new challenge for me to create my own quilt and then set it on point. I left large neutral spaces for longarm quilting, which I did myself."

Close-up, Red Regale

Kirsten concludes, "I can honestly say this is my quilt from start to finish. I love quilting; it fills me with content and happiness."
Both the patchwork and longarm quilting here are gorgeous. Kirsten has selected fabric that is a highly saturated, very substantial shade of red in order to give maximum contrast to the background.  

Image credits:  Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2018 Road to California show (Red and White Explosion), the 2018 Springville (Utah) quilt show (Red Regale), and  Quilt Arizona! (Zen in Red, Be My Valentine, and Red Licorice.)

Heart quilts for Valentine's Day!

We're sending hearts and flowers to all quilters via this post ! Here are some beautiful quilts to warm your heart and inspire your own creative projects.

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Hearts and Nine by Ilene Atkins (Ontario, Canada)

Hearts and Nine was selected for the special exhibit, A Canadian Nine Patch Celebrating Canada’s 150th Birthday, shown at the 2017 Houston International Quilt Festival. The quilts were selected to represent Canada’s history, geography, and culture as expressed by each artist.

Appliqued hearts, placed in white blocks, are used to define the outline of a large heart in this quilt. Ilene Atkins says the heart theme was inspired by Canada's incredible "diversity, acceptance, wide open spaces, and friendly cities, along with many cultures and varied communities." Many different fun fabrics were used to construct the blocks.

Heart Sampler by Laurene Sinema, 1992, quilted by Una Jarvis

Heart Sampler, with nine different hearts, was in a special exhibit of Laurene Sinema’s work at the 2017 Quilt Arizona show. Laurene was a published author and she founded the Arizona Quilters Guild. It is entirely hand appliqued, hand quilted, and adorned with a border of heart-shaped leaves.

The pattern for this quilt was published in Laurene’s 1992 book, Applique! Applique! Applique! (still available in used books on Amazon).  The book teaches applique and decorative stitches, reverse applique (mola), stained glass and Celtic applique, Hawaiian, broderie perse, and shadow applique.

Heart Throb by Kris Lovetro, quilted by Debbie Stanton

Kris Lovetro says, "I had such a good time making this quilt, I made six of them, but this one in Kaffe Fassett fabric was the most fun." We love the way Kris set the pixelated heart within a neutral field composed from two different cream colored fabrics. The floral squares were quilted in back-and-forth loops, while the neutral background was quilted with an overall design of small hearts, shown below.

You can see more examples of pixel heart quilts at Blue Elephant Stitches; there is a free pattern for a bed size pixel heart quilt at Robert Kaufman Fabrics.

My Valentine by Angie Oswald

This cheerful quilt is hand appliqued, embroidered, and hand quilted. We loved Angie Oswald's choice of fabrics, which included some 1930s reproduction fabrics.  Angie says, "Hand work has become my favorite part of the quilting process."  My Valentine was exhibited at the 2017 Springville (Utah) quilt show; we're still searching for the design source.

Yo Yo Hearts by the Piecemakers Quilt Guild (Utah)

Yo yos make a great take-along project! In this clever but simple quilt, each heart was created from 16 yo yos.  The blocks and hand quilting were done by Linda Boyer, Marianne Breitenbeker, Cecile Eden, Kathy Lyon, JoAnn Mildenhall, Dawn Mumford, Cathy Prows, Diana Shurtlett, and Becky Young. It was made for the Ruby Jubilee of the Utah Quilt Guild, and exhibited at the 2017 Springville (Utah) quilt show.

Hearts and Flowers by the Knotts Quilting Bee Guild (Utah)

Another beautiful hand quilted piece in Utah's Ruby Jubilee exhibit! This sampler quilt combines pieced sawtooth stars, an appliqued vintage heart (in the center), four redwork embroidered baskets, a flying geese inner border, and appliqued flower vines on the outer border. The charming redwork embroidery really stood out on this quilt. (We're searching for the pattern source.)

Grandma's Love by Charlene Day, quilted by Connie Myers

This quilt was made with red and white gingham fabric; the small gingham squares were embroidered so as to create the shapes of hearts, then machine quilted. Connie Myers says, "My mother created 14 chicken scratch squares and I created the final two and pieced it. Mom saw the finished quilt 3 days before she died." Grandma's Love was shown at the 2017 Quilt Arizona show.

Image credits:  Photo were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2017 Houston International Quilt Festival, Springville (Utah) Quilt Show, and Quilt Arizona show.