Westward Ho!
Welcome to the Prairie Patchwork Quilt Along!
In my book, Prairie Patchwork, Carrie
and her family migrate westward from the hills of West Virginia to the plains
of Kansas, in 1871. Join me on our own prairie journey, where our final
destination is the 42" x 54" Prairie Patchwork
sampler quilt, pictured below!
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Prairie Patchwork Quilt Along sampler quilt
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To make the sampler quilt, you'll need your copy of my book, Prairie
Patchwork . If you haven't yet purchased your copy, buy the book at your local quilt shop, shopmartingale.com, wagonswestdesigns.com or Amazon.
Follow along
weekly every Wednesday, here on my blog, for each step of the journey,
and the instructions for each step. The sampler quilt has been divided into 26
steps, alphabetized A through Z, so you will have plenty of time to complete
the quilt! A PDF for each step will be available here, as well as on my
website wagonswestdesigns.com.
My sampler quilt design was inspired by sampler quilts of
the nineteenth century, and more specifically to those pictured in the book by
Sue C. Cummings, Album Quilts of Miami County. Some of those
quilts were made using the red, green and cheddar color combinations, and that's the color scheme I chose for the Prairie Patchwork sampler.
I designed a collection of fabrics for the sampler, in
colors similar to those found on the antique quilts. Those fabrics, and their
corresponding numbers, can be found on the fabric requirements PDF. They're available
for purchase on the print-on-demand fabric site, Spoonflower.
Of course, feel free to use any color combination of your
choosing, and fabrics from your stash!
Click Here to download the fabric requirements for the Prairie Patchwork Quilt Along Sampler Quilt.
Instructions for the first block(s) will be posted next Wednesday!
Until next time,
Martha