The QuiltTownUSA Gallery
offers you a look at quilts from some of the premiere quilters in the USA.
It is a place where you can come whenever you are looking for some
inspiration. You will find beautiful and creative quilts always on display. Visit us again
and again; the exhibits are constantly changing. Stay as long as you like. Our doors never
close.
Currently on display are quilts from
Celebrate the
Seasons with Quilts. Celebrate the changing season with easy-to-make quilts.
You'll get patterns for three exciting quilts for each season of the year! Whether you
make a quilt for yourself or as a gift, any one of these 12 seasonal quilts will provide a
life-long treasure for your family and friends.
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Lisa Mansfield
of Tulsa, Oklahoma, used a variety of scrappy Nine Patch blocks obtained from members of
her guild to make this springtime quilt. Lisa used reproduction fabrics in shades of pink
for the alternate squares in "Child's Play" (39" x
52"), an appropriate name because this quilt is so quick and easy to construct.
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Spring is in the
air! "Friendship Fan" (69" x 81"), is Patricia Reid's
charming quilt made of fabrics she bought from, and swapped with, fellow members of the
Feedsack Club. After the Florida quiltmaker machine pieced her blocks, she wrote the names
of the friends who provided the fabric on the fan handles. New muslin provides a light
background, and pink borders complete the springtime atmosphere created by this quilt. |
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| Guess where lucky Joanne Bledsoe of
Montrose, Pennsylvania, discovered "Yard Sale Tulips" (53"
x 66"). Where else but a spring yard sale! She bought it for a song and has enjoyed
it ever since. This bright and cheerful quilt, made in the '30s, features
beginner-friendly appliqué. |
Peggy Kraum-Brown of Bonner
Springs, Kansas, remembers ballet lessons when she was a child. Her mother once sewed
beautiful butterfly costumes of satins, sequins, and lace of her recital. Peggy and her
classmates danced as if in flight to the music. "Butterfly Ballet" (76
1/2" x 96") reminds her of that happy time. Make your version to remind you of
summertime delights. |
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Bette Nasser Clark
of Montrose, Pennsylvania, was the lucky winner of a set of House blocks made by her
fellow Stitch 'n Time guild members. Bette pieced some additional blocks and assembled "Houses"
(78" x 101"), her first full-size quilt. Cool and crisp, the ticking
stripe sashings and checked borders lend an old-fashioned country summer look to this
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Just as children flock to the park
in summer, quilters turn to sunny colors for summertime quilts. Connie Tilman of Powhatan,
Virginia, stitched bright, colorful sailboats afloat on rivers of blue in "Sailboats"
(65" x 93"). Connie is a member of the Feedsack Club and enjoys using
cheerful feedsack fabrics in her quilts. Make your version using your favorite fabrics. |
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| Charlotte Roach of Stratford,
Connecticut, made "Geese in the Barn" (86 1/2" square)
after taking a tour through an old barn. Birds flying in and out of the barn inspired her
to combine two traditional blocks. The Flying Geese in the sashing appear to float over a
background of Log Cabin blocks, giving a three dimensional feel to this quilt. |
Margot Cohen of Cedarhurst, New
York, used a full spectrum of autumn-colored fabrics for her "Maple Leaf
Quilt" (83" x 102 1/2"). Use scraps of many different prints and
solids to make the blocks in your quilt sparkle like sunlight through falling leaves. |
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| When the first frost crunches
underfoot on a crisp fall morning, look to the east to see the "Morning
Star" (78" x 94"). This scrappy quilt was stitched in autumn
colors by Jeanne Poore of Overland Park, Kansas, and machine quilted by Freda Smith. The
Morning Star pattern is also known as Vestibule. |
Made in shades of red and green, "Field
of Stars" (74" x 84") by Linda Taylor of McKinney, Texas, becomes
a Christmas-time quilt. It is a perfect pattern for cozy flannels. |
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| A holiday tradition of decorating
Christmas trees with mittens for donations to needy children inspired Virginia Jones of
Taunton, Massachusetts, to create "The Mitten Tree" (51" x
59"). Mittens do not have to come in pairs when you make your version of this
delightful wintertime quilt. |
To express her love of blue, Mary
Guggemos of Overland Park, Kansas, stitched "Random Stars" (90"
x 114") from many different blue fabrics. Six different-sized star blocks are
incorporated into this quilt, making it twinkle like stars in a dark winter night sky.
Mary drew inspiration for her quilt from an original design by Bea Oglesby, also of
Overland Park. |
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