A smiling farm girl stands ready for morning chores in a sun hat and red cowboy boots, a scrappy patchwork apron over a calico dress, a basket of strawberries in one hand and a little yellow bird perched on the other. Tall pieced flowers grow from canning jars on one side and a plump hen stands on the other, while bees drift through a cream background crowded with pieced sampler blocks: stars, churn dashes, and nine-patches among them. It finishes at a generous 77.5" x 88.5", a bed-size quilt full of country charm.

What the Pattern Includes

This listing is for the printed paper pattern only. Fabric, batting, backing, and notions are not included.

The full-color booklet covers the farm girl and her basket, the flowers and canning jars, the hen and bird, and the surrounding pieced sampler blocks, with complete cutting and assembly instructions.

What You'll Need

The blocks run scrappy and fat-quarter-friendly, drawn from Lori Holt's Farmer's Daughter collection, so a fat-quarter bundle or a deep scrap stash both suit it well. Beyond the scrappy prints, plan for the background and backing.

• Background: about 5 yards
• Blocks and border: about 1¼ yards, plus a wide scrappy mix of fat quarters, fat eighths, and smaller cuts (⅓, ⅜, ½, ⅝, and ⅞ yard prints)
• Bias binding: about 1 yard
• Backing: about 2½ yards of 108" wide fabric, or 7⅜ yards of 44" wide

A few details use embroidery floss (four DMC colors), and the cover sample adds vintage trim and a couple of button packs as finishing touches. Full cutting amounts for every fabric are printed on the pattern.

Perfect For

• Quilters who love farmhouse and country style
• Sewists with a fat-quarter bundle or a deep scrap stash to put to work
• Anyone who enjoys a pictorial quilt built from pieced sampler blocks
• Fans of Lori Holt's cheerful, nostalgic, traditional-patchwork style
• A handmade quilt for a country or cottage home, or a heartfelt gift

Why You'll Love This Pattern

Almost the whole quilt is patchwork. The farm girl, the flowers and canning jars, the hen and bird, and every sampler block around them are pieced from ordinary rotary-cut shapes, with no appliqué and no paper piecing. A few small details are finished with hand embroidery. The result reads as more involved than any single step actually is.

The top of the quilt is a field of different traditional blocks, stars and churn dashes and nine-patches, and the girl's apron is its own little patchwork, so the scrappier the prints the better. A cream background ties all that variety together and keeps the country palette cheerful rather than busy. Pulling from a fat-quarter bundle of Lori's Farmer's Daughter collection is the quickest route to the look on the cover, though any warm country palette works.

It's Sew Emma rates this one Intermediate, and that fits: the pleasure is in the variety, a pictorial scene plus a sampler of blocks, with small pieces throughout. The techniques stay familiar, so the project rewards accurate cutting and working block by block.

Product Details

• Brand: It's Sew Emma
• Item #: ISE-317
• Designer: Lori Holt
• Category: Quilting Pattern
• Skill Level: Intermediate (It's Sew Emma's classification). A pictorial quilt with a figure plus a sampler of pieced blocks and small pieces; comfort with rotary cutting and accurate piecing helps.
• Technique: Standard Machine Piecing, Conventional Patchwork, with a few hand-embroidered details (no paper piecing, no appliqué)
• Finished Size: 77.5" x 88.5"
• Format: Printed Paper Pattern (full-color booklet)
• Made in the United States