Canadian quilt design company with fresh and modern patchwork quilt patterns.

European cross stitch designer with unusual charts. Whimsical and fresh.

Interesting modern pieced and applique patchwork quilt patterns.

Fabulous and fun appliqué and pieced quilt patterns, starring whimsical animals or people.

Wonderful applique books - horses and dogs and cats and bunnies and more.

Patchwork project books, applique and pieced designs - for all occasions.

Wonderful appliqué patterns from several very talented people – some are realistic and some are just fun.

Two Lovely sisters from California who do wonderful stitchery and felt appliqué sewing accessories. Mainly redwork but also done in other colors.

BJ design – these are fabulous and fun quilts with appliqué animals in bright and colorful designs. Generally designed to go on walls, they also look great with added borders and put onto beds.

The designer here is Natalie Lymer, she does fabulous stitchery and pieced designs. Some are quilts but she also has a wonderful range of stitcheries that can go on bags, be framed, made as pillows, the options are huge. Well worth a look.

Country Keepsakes – Annie Smith is a lovely Australian lady (originally from Great Britain) who lives just up the road from me. She does some of the best cloth doll patterns I have seen. Her dolls are usually quite large, not necessarily designed to be played with by small children, but beautiful to have in your home. There is a large range of designs – all fun and fabulous.

Cozy Quilts – This is a fabulous US pattern company that specializes in quick and easy pieced quilt patterns. Most are designed for 2.5” strips, fat quarters, or 10” squares (known as layer cakes). They have an enormous range of designs, and many of them are perfect for the man in your life who doesn’t like most of your girly designs.

Don’t Look Now – Kellie Wulfson is a lovely lady from Victoria, Australia. She has 4 gorgeous kids and makes the cutest quilt patterns.  They are all designed to use raw edge appliqué and easy free motion quilting. Many have floral themes but there are also a few with wonderful kids designs,  there is sure to be the perfect quilt for your favourite boy or girl. There are also some fun and simpler pillow patterns.

Dragon Charmer  - Jennifer Carson is a very talented woman who loves fantasy and has created a range of wonderful cloth patterns so that everyone else can have a little fantasy in their own lives. Her patterns are dragons, and faeries,  and unicorns, and goblins, and lots of other wonderful creatures.

From My Heart To Your Hands - This is a wonderful American quilt design company. The designer is Lori Smith, and she mainly does traditional designs, a lot of sampler quilts, but all with a slightly different feel. Her samplers are fun and initially do not look like sampler quilts. She also has a range of small project quilts, several in each pattern – these are fun and easy and look great hanging on a wall.

Gail Pan - Gail is an Australian designer who does lovely simple quilts and bags. Her designs are usually quite simple, often with pieced and appliqué blocks in the same quilt, and she uses a lot of gorgeous (and easy) stitchery as well. Her Christmas range is quite large and really cute.

Gourmet Crochet – Carolyn Christmas is the designer at Gourmet Crochet. She has a wide range of gorgeous crochet patterns for women’s clothes, baby clothes, amigurumi (little toys), and other fun stuff. Her instructions are all written with American crochet terms, but they are quite easy to get used to.