Reproduction Patterns

Hay Bale by Edyta Sitar at Laundry Basket Quilts

Here are a few wonderful reproduction quilt patterns available now.

Farmers' Market by Edyta Sitar at Laundry Basket Quilts

If you are thinking of a mid-19th-century reproduction, say a Civil-War-era quilt, you might choose one of these block quilts.

Wedding Sampler by Di Ford

Drayton Hall by Di Ford

Earlier inspiration for say 1812- or Jane-Austen-era reproductions would include medallions.

The Burnt Quilt by Di Ford

Phebe Warner by Di Ford

Netherfield Park by Megan Carroll

The English Basket Quilt by Corliss Searcy

I found many of these patterns at Corliss's Australian shop Threadbear. Click here:

http://www.threadbear.com.au/

See more of Edyta's Laundry Basket Quilts here

http://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/Shop/shopindex.htm

You can buy kits for some of these quilts but you can train your fabric eye and learn a lot about quilt history by buying the pattern and then collecting the reproductions.

Di Ford and Ann Daggs (Ann Dagge)

Ann Dagge, Rochester, New York, 1818. 84" x 78".

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Gift of Patricia Smith Melton

1998.149.5

 
Di Ford has a new pattern featuring her interpretation of this appliqued medallion dated 1818.

Click here to see some photos of Di's quilt:

http://threadbear.allthingsquilting.com.au/threadbear-quilting-in-2010/

http://www.threadbear.com.au/quiltpatterns.php

Here's a blog featuring a work in progress

http://patchworkonstonleigh.blogspot.com/2010/02/discovering-treasures-and-ann-daggs.html

See the center of the original by clicking here

http://www.theamericanquilt.com/site/gallery/image2_lg.html

at The American Quilt

It has been published for about 20 years as the Ann Daggs quilt, but apparently the curators at the Smithsonian Insitution have re-interpreted her signature as Ann Dagge.