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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.
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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
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#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 |
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#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!
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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
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#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 |
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#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! |
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#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! |
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