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Kris Kerrigan, the designer for Button Weeds, has designed patterns for over 100 home decorating projects with a folk art, whimsical country style in both pieced patchwork and appliquéd.

Browse the site for the vast array of patterns -- wall quilts, baby quilts and nursery essentials, quilts with chickens, penny rugs, curtains, pillows, and MORE! 

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New Featured Patterns

#162 Penny Candy Revolutionary War Motifs

$7.00

Redware Ha'penny Rug, 28" x 10 1/2"; Sixteenpenny Garland; Hit 'N Miss Stars Candle Mat 12 1/2" sq.; The Frugal Huswife's Diamond Candle Mat 16" x 10"; Old Glory Pillow 8" x 5", American Eagle Penny Rug 30" x 8"; and American Eagle Towel

#161-Revolutionary War Sweethearts and Soldiers

$8.00

A 200 year old folk art print "Revolutionary War Sweethearts & Soldiers" inspired me to investigage why women were in the print. 20,000 women were active in the war as spies, message carriers, soldiers, & camp followers as nurses, cooks, and launderers. Learn origins of 18 battle flags on the 91" x 105" quilt (accommodates tall mattresses), piece a "pocket" (predecessor of pocketbooks), or sew a tavern sign with checkerboard icons symbolizing gambols, food & drink (many 1700s people could not read). Journey to 1776!

 

 
   

Check Out More Patterns
Button Weeds' NEW Make-It-Snappy Quilts of the Month are 18" wide and perfectly fit the folksy black metal quilt hanger (pictured and available from www.joinedatthehip.com for $20 retail).
Four “months” per pattern -- retail $7.00

#158 - January, February, March, April
$7.00 Retail

JANUARY--"Jackie Frost" has clear seed beads added to the frosty backstitch quilting to give an icy effect.
FEBRUARY--"Chocolate Arrows" point at a folksy heart pierced at the top & radiating trails ending in antique buttons.
MARCH--"Ring of Kerry" is an Irish quilt featuring a shamrock and horseshoe flowers emitting “lucky penny” buttons.
APRIL--"Working Overtime" is a tribute to a beloved hen laying colored eggs that fill 3 tall baskets--all bedecked with stars

 

#159 - May, June, July, August
$7.00 Retail

MAY--"Morning Glories" is a charming quilt that Kris designed for American Patchwork and Quilting in 2003.
JUNE--"Garden of Eatin" features rows of colorful garden vegetables surrounded by an easily-pieced picket fence.
JULY--"Fireworks Finale" has four pieced star blocks in Americana colors with top and bottom striped borders.
AUGUST--"Primitive Picnic" with its folk art simplicity of watermelons and checkerboard will be a favorite!

 

Mike, Randy and Don #160 - September, October, November, December
$7.00 Retail

SEPTEMBER--"Ye Olde Red Schoolhouse" is a quilter’s choice with pomegranate-style apples in an arch.
OCTOBER--"Linda’s Leaf Heap" is similar to Kris’s Shades of Autumn, a cover quilt for American Patchwork and Quilting magazine.
NOVEMBER--"Running Away from Home" has Log Cabin blocks that simulate the “home” from which two turkeys are exiting.
DECEMBER--"Colonial Christmas" is a feathered star with intersecting folksy trees, button-berry twigs, & center star!