Welcome to our home! We hope you will find designs that you just can’t wait to make!
Below you can see what is on each page of our site.
I have been very privileged be involved with Ami Simms’ Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative. I have a quilt traveling in the exhibit: Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece by Piece. For more information, click on our Links page.
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A suggestion to make life easier for you… and shop owners everywhere. Don't try to match the fabrics you are picking with what you see on the pattern front. I have a stash of fabrics I love, many of them older fabrics that I have been saving. If you try to match them, you will make yourself and the shop owner crazy. Have fun picking fabrics you like. Enjoy!! Kate
What’s New Check back often. We’ll try to keep our newest patterns on this page!
Books That’s pretty obvious!
Everything Else I love sunflowers, cows, and MUCH more!
Holidays If you are looking for Santas or elves…you won’t find any on our quilts. There is a reason for this…
We celebrate Christmas as the birthday of Jesus – God’s only begotten Son
p.s. You won’t find any Easter bunnies either!
Do not be afraid; for behold I bring you good news of a great joy which shall be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. Luke 2: 20 – 22
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
Long and Skinny I’m married to an architect. He wanted to know what good are the long and skinny quilts. I told him they are long and skinny because architects continue to put long and skinny walls in houses!
One Pagers They are patterns that fit on the front and back of 1 page of paper. They have a black and white drawing on the page…no color picture. They still have well written directions and drawings. They are usually quick to make….and they make GREAT gifts!
Over 40 I freely admit I’m over 40… I might as well… the gray hair is an obvious giveaway! Every year since I turned 40…. Well, the eyes just don’t seem to work as well as they used to (can we say bifocals?). And the hands just don’t want to deal with tiny, little pieces any more (can we say arthritis?). Who cares? I refuse to give up my quilting!!
What are Over 40 Applique patterns? Quite simply, they are traditional applique quilt patterns that have been enlarged to fit a 36” (finished) quilt block. The inner curves have been softened (great for beginners, too!). The pieces are BIGGER…some pieces have been divided into two… all to make the pieces easier for our “aging” hands and eyes to handle!
And an added bonus… 1 block and a border makes a baby quilt… 4 blocks and a border makes a bed sized quilt! Blocks can be made quickly using fusible… OR they can be made using the templar method… OR they can be made using traditional applique techniques.
Penny Rugs The following is the information I have been able to find concerning what we now call penny rugs.
Before the 1830’s, rug referred to a heavy woolen bed covering. In America’s earliest years, imported carpets were draped over tables, etc. to admire and not wear out.
Early table rugs were decorated with leaves, flowers, birds, stars, and other things from nature. These were done in whole rug designs OR sometimes block by block rugs. Edges were: scallop, fringe, or straight hem.
I’m not sure if the rugs were lined or not.
In post Civil War time, penny rugs were “thrifty” as we know them today. They were a good use for scraps of clothing.
They have been called penny rugs, dollar rugs, spool rugs, and button rugs. The name often reflected what the maker traced around to make the “penny”.
The first rugs seem to have been a background covered with stacks of pennies which were blanket stitched to the background. Later, someone added a figure surrounded by the pennies. Then it progressed to adding tabs to the outside edge.
Penny rugs died out with the end of the 19th century. There was a brief revival at the beginning of the second decade of the 20th century. The rugs were fancier. However, in those two decades there had been a marked decline in the workmanship of American stitchers.
Stars Can you ever have too many star quilts? I don’t think so!!
Nature It all started with making my dad a bird quilt for Christmas one year.
Then we moved to the country and I fell in love with the wildflowers in the ditches. They are soooo beautiful. That started the wildflower quilts.
And then came a quilt to remind us of our vacation. Enjoy!
Wholesale Info Just what it sounds like.
Order Info Just what this sounds like too.
Quilts In a story I heard, a foolish man asked a quilter why you would EVER need more than one quilt!
I never thought you could have too many quilts. After 14+ years in the pattern business, I have had to rethink that idea. Some patterns have had more than one quilt on the cover. Multiply that by a bunch of patterns…. and we’re running out of places to put them in our house! Yes, I give them as gifts. I donate to charity. But we’re still running out of room. So, reluctantly, I have decided I need to sell a few of them….a few. That is sad for our house, but, hopefully, great for someone else.
If you see a quilt you want to purchase, you will need to contact me by email at kate@HomespunCharm.com
Yard Sale Check back often. I’m not sure what will show up here. Old patterns. Odds and ends that were in our books. Who knows!
Oops Ok, NO matter how hard you try, some things get past you…
