Red Sky at Night Quilt
For 100s of years before us, through war and financial ruin, interstate and international moves, births and deaths, women have made quilts.
These quilts were more than "making do", more than a commitment to using what they had or being thrifty. With a mix of simple squares and triangles, these women thoughtfully and beautifully created many 1000s of different quilt block designs.
Join me to celebrate them.
Sew a Sampler Quilt
with smooth, easy progress.
Red Sky at Night is unlike any sampler quilt you've attempted before. With machine-pieced blocks carefully chosen for their common shapes and sizes, you'll make your colour decisions early, cut your squares and rectangles first, make all of the common units in batches.
Sew like units
in one, easy step.
No stopping and starting with each block, no getting your head around the half square triangles for this block, and then needing to do it all over again five blocks later. Choose between a 2 colour quilt, or scrappy, or a combination of the two, and then cut and sew all of your units before you sew your blocks.
Red Sky at Night uses 2" squares in 3 different iterations, but you'll cut them all together. The quilt has 90 'flying geese' units, but you'll make them all first, and then you'll sew them into the commonly repeated combinations!
Weekly Stories
straight to your inbox!
Learn about Carrie Hall, who woke up one day and decided she was going to make EVERY block ever designed, or the Chicago World Fair that advertised for entries in it's 1933 quilt show and received 25,000 quilts! Each week, along with a guide for what to sew, and tips for making it easy, I'll share a fun, beautiful, interesting story from quilting history.
One Pattern
three different quilts!
It wouldn't be a Tales of Cloth Sampler without a beautiful selection of English paper piecing! The EPP blocks in Red Sky at Night provide a beautiful contrast, both in the making, and in the variation they offer the quilt.
The Red Sky at Night Quilt pattern includes 3 different final quilt layouts:
- a queen sized combination of machine pieced and EPP blocks
- a lap sized quilt made of only the machine pieced blocks
- a lap quilt made of only the EPP blocks.
About the Quilt-Along
While the official Quilt-Along is drawing to a close, you can still get all of the quilt block stories as well as links to all the relevant blog posts and videos in a weekly email delivered right to your inbox, in order, even if you've signed up after the starting date!
- Follow a thoughtful plan, devised for easy progress.
- Joyful and inspiring stories from patchwork history each week in the newsletter.
- How-to videos for each step on YouTube, for both Machine Pieced and EPP.
Fabric Requirements
FAQs
While the quilt along is officially drawing to a close, you can still get all of the quilt block stories as well as links to all the relevant blog posts and videos in a weekly email delivered right to your inbox, in order, even if you've signed up after the starting date! Sign up here!
Nope! The cost of the club, including videos, stories, and weekly emails, is included in the pattern.
The blocks are sewn after you've completed each unit batch (or you can wait until the end!) The pattern includes a guide for which blocks can be completed at the end of each batch.
We've spread out the sewing and prep work to be around 5 hours each week for machine piecing and 1-3 hours each week for the EPP.
Yes! Red Sky at Night is an excellent introduction to the basic building blocks for 1000s of traditional quilt patterns. Make sure you're signed up for the Quilt Along newsletter where I'll share the links to my tutorial videos.
You can find it, and the EPP kit, and fabric bundles (sold separately) here!
Yes, we ship worldwide with tracking. A package travelling from Australia to USA or UK usually takes 2 weeks.
We do have some lovely fabric bundles in the shop while supplies last! The high volume bundle is perfect for the scrappy version and we have limited fat quarter bundles in low volume fabrics. Note, these fabric bundles are not pre cut! Please read the listings carefully. :)
Join us in the "Tales of Cloth Sew Alongs" Facebook Group where you can share your progress and ask the group for help!
Once each week.
Full details for all three quilts are in the pattern, but a general guide to fabric requirements are found in the photo above!
If you have any other questions we haven’t covered here, fill out the form below!
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