St.Patricks Quilt, Somerset Star Potholder, and More: Free Tutorials, Vintage Patterns or Links

Kermit Says "The Luck 'O the Irish to You!" and offers to share my free St. Paddy's Day quilt or quilt block patterns with you!

Shown above, is my own favorite simple string quilt, pieced in a diagonal pattern with 'Kiss Me I'm Irish' and other fun shamrock fabrics.Kermit's Irish green eyes are smiling on the string quilt done in greens and holiday shamrock fabrics, hope yours are too! 

And above, my own green Somerset Star Potholders Tutorial complete with a free pattern tutorial:

 Quilting Quiz + Somerset Star Tutorial!

And now, some wonderful and "Free St.Patrick's Day, Shamrock or Irish Themed Free Quilt, Quilting, or Small Project Links, Patterns and Tutorials"

Free St. Patrick's quilt pattern - Moonlight Quilts pdf

So cute, 4 little pieced hearts make a four leaf clover, one big clover per block, easy download makes this one a keeper!

Shamrock Quilt Block Pattern

Shamrock Wall Hanging

Click here or the image above for an assortment of quilt block patterns that celebrate Ireland.

                                    

 Free Scrappy Shamrock Quilt Pattern  

Vintage Shamrock Quilt Block Pattern...Kansas City Star 1932

Here are a few vintage quilt patterns with an Irish theme to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at Q if for Quilt by Martha: 

 Vintage Shamrock Quilt Patterns

http://qisforquilter.com/2011/03/vintage-shamrock-quilt-patterns/

Sewedhooked.com shamrock quilt

5″ paper pieced Shamrock Pattern

(paper pieced shamrocks make up quilt)

Shown above: Shamrock Quilt Block from Straw.com

Shamrock Quilt Block

http://www.straw.com/equilters/library/applique/shamrockqlts.html

Aunt Mary's Double Irish Chain Quilt Block Make an eight inch paper pieced block.

Broken Irish Chain a 10" pieced quilt block pattern from Quilter's Cache.

 

Celtic Sunrise - a 12" paper pieced quilt block pattern from Quilter's Cache

Single Irish Chain Baby Quilt

Double Irish Chain - a 12" pieced quilt block pattern from SewQuilty.

Double Irish Chain Quilt classic block for a pillow, or lots for a quilt.

Four Leaf Clover - 10" applique quilt block pattern from CompuQuilt.

Happy St. Patrick’s Surprise » the free quilt pattern's pdf file

Lovely pieced hearts create a shamrock! Green for the Catholics, Orange for the Protestants, and White for the hope for eternal peace between them.

Celtic Interlocking Squares Quilt Block:

Interlocking Squares, Template 1 of 2

Interlocking Squares, Template 2 of 2

Irish Chain - from Sharon Hultgren of EZ Quilt

Irish Chain - an 18" pieced quilt block pattern from Quilter's Cache.

 

Irish Chain Quilt - a 54" x 66" pieced quilt pattern from EZQuilting

Irish Eyes - a 12" pieced quilt block pattern from AZPatch.

Irish Grandma Sue Boy Block from Quiltmaker.com

Latticed Irish Chain Block a 28" block from Quilter's Cache

Scrappy Pieced Shamrock Block...turn several shamrocks into a darling quilt!

Scrappy Irish Chain Quilt - a 68-3/4" x 84-1/2" pieced quilt pattern from McCall's Quilting.

Shamrock

Single Irish Chain Quilt for Baby - alt/ 4 1/2" fussy cut w. Irish Chain from About.com

  

St. Patrick's Day Quilt from Kim's Big Adventure

Traditional Irish Chain Quilt lovely traditional Irish chain Quilt pattern.

Trip To Ireland Quilt - a pieced quilt pattern from Simply Quilts.

Triple Irish (chain) Flower quilt pattern from Moda

 

String Quilting Tutorial to get you started on your own string quilt quilt like mine, above!

Words to applique:" Kiss Me I'm Irish

My own small mug wrap photo tute:

Yellow Clover Vintage Quilt Block: Instructions

Vintage Pattern Directions..no longer available  

**Yellow Clover a block design first published by Nancy Cabot for the Chicago Tribune.

According to Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, Yellow Clover is one of hundreds of Cabot patterns sold by mail order during the 1930s.

YELLOW CLOVER debuted in the Nancy Cabot quilt column in the Chicago Tribune on March 19, 1936. Cabot's notes state the following: 

"Yellow, green and white form one of the most popular of present day quilt color combinations. YELLOW CLOVER is one of the newer pieced blocks which allow the quilt maker to use these colors in a most appropriate pattern. 

It is a pattern which is not difficult to piece, and only 36 blocks are required for an entire coverlet. They are set together six blocks across and 6 blocks deep and surrounded by a five inch border of white material and bound with leaf green bias binding a half inch in width." 

The pattern is included in most compendiums, see p.207-5 in Jinny Beyer's QUILTER'S ALBUM OF PATCHWORK PATTERNS, for example, or p.212 in Maggie Malone's 5,500 QUILT BLOCK DESIGNS, or #2459 if you're using Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS. 

For an index of Nancy Cabot designs at this site, see CABOT BLOCKS. 

If you can followed these directions without photos please write me @quiltingjourney@gmail.com  and let me know and please do include a photo!  

Good luck to all 

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Yellow Clover: 

BLOCK SIZE: 10 1/2" square 

MATERIALS

• Dark print at least 5" x 10"
• Medium print at least 10" square
• Light print at least 16" square or one fat quarter
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CUTTING

Dimensions include a 1/4" seam allowance

• Cut 2: 5" squares, dark print
• Cut 3: 5" squares, medium print
• Cut 5: 5" squares, light print
• Cut 4: 3 3/8" squares, light print, then cut them in quarters diagonally to yield 16 side triangles
• Cut 7: 2" squares, light, then cut 2 of them in half diagonally to yield 4 corner triangles
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DIRECTIONS

Draw diagonal lines from corner to corner on the wrong side of each 5" light print square. Draw horizontal and vertical lines through the centers.
Place a marked square on a 5" dark print square, right sides together. Sew 1/4" away from the diagonal lines on both sides. Make 2 using the dark squares and 3 using the medium ones.
Cut the squares on the drawn lines to yield 16 dark pieced squares and 24 medium pieced squares. Press the seam allowances open. Trim each pieced square to 2".
Sew a 2" light print square to a dark pieced              square to make a rectangle unit. Make 4. Press the seam allowances open.
Lay out the square units, rectangle units, and the remaining 2" light print square. Sew them into rows and join the rows to complete the block center. Press the seam allowances in the direction indicated by the arrows. Set it aside.
Lay out 3 medium pieced squares and 2 side triangles. Join them to make a pieced strip, as shown. Make 4. Press the seam allowances open.
Lay out one medium pieced square and 2 side triangles. Join them to make a pieced strip. Make 4. Press the seam allowances open.
Sew a corner triangles to a pieced strip to make a corner unit, as shown. Make 4. Press the seam allowances toward the corner triangles.
Sew a corner unit to a pieced strip to make a large triangle. Make 4. Press the seam allowances toward the corner.
Sew 2 large triangles to opposite sides of the block center. Press the seam allowances toward the corners. Sew the remaining large triangles to the remaining sides and press to complete the block.

From Earlywomenmasters.net

AUNT MARY'S DOUBLE IRISH CHAIN - Antique Geometric Quilt Designs

DOUBLE IRISH CHAIN INDEX | BOOKS or search engine by freefind advanced Quilt Notes: AUNT MARY'S DOUBLE IRISH CHAIN dates back in print to a 1906 booklet of blocks.

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