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 |
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
Really pretty quilt. I'm out of town now, but when I get back home I'm sure I have fabrics for most of it. Home in two weeks. Can't wait.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I hope you enjoy following along with the sampler!
ReplyDeleteI love the quilt!! Book is ordered, next is checking out your fabric they spoonflower🤞 I love the red, green & cheddar, a beautiful holiday quilt. Can’t wait for follow along. Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteThank you! It should be fun! See you back here tomorrow for Block(s) A!
DeleteMy girlfriend and I have both purchased your book and selected fabrics from our vast collections 😉 looking forward to Wednesday's start!!
ReplyDeleteThank you! It's fun to make the same quilt as a friend, especially when each of you use different fabrics, and see the different results! See you back here tomorrow! :)
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