A friendly scarecrow stands at the center of this autumn quilt, straw hat tilted, plaid shirt and patched denim overalls pieced from print fabrics, arms stretched along a wooden pole. A black crow has settled on one arm, clearly unbothered. A red garden rake leans on one side and a plump orange pumpkin sits atop a galvanized milk can on the other, while pieced fall leaves drift across the low-volume background and a floral print frames the whole scene. It finishes at a generous 80.5" x 85.5", a bed-size quilt to bring out every fall.

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 runs 62 pages, with cutting and assembly instructions for the scarecrow, the pumpkin and milk can, the rake, the perched crow, and the scattered leaf blocks.

What You'll Need

The quilt top calls for a wide range of prints, so it suits a fat-eighth and fat-quarter bundle or a well-stocked scrap collection. Beyond those, plan for the larger background and backing.

• Blocks: about 11 fat eighths and 21 fat quarters, plus several smaller cuts (⅜, ½, ⅞, and 1 yard prints)
• Background: about 6¼ yards of a low-volume print
• Backing: about 2⅝ yards of 108" wide fabric, or 7⅝ yards of 44" wide

Full cutting amounts for every fabric are printed on the pattern. Lori also used a ¼ yard of trim and four 1-inch buttons as finishing touches; both are optional.

Perfect For

• Quilters who want a seasonal showpiece for fall rather than an everyday bed quilt
• Sewists with a fat-eighth or fat-quarter bundle, or a deep scrap stash, to put to work
• Anyone who enjoys a pictorial quilt that builds a scene from simple pieced shapes
• Fans of Lori Holt's Autumn collection and her bright, traditional-patchwork style
• A handmade fall decoration to bring out year after year

Why You'll Love This Pattern

The whole scene is built from patchwork. The scarecrow, the leaves, the pumpkin, the crow, and the little star on the milk can are all pieced from ordinary rotary-cut squares, rectangles, and triangles, with no appliqué and no paper piecing. That is the quiet trick of the design: it looks far more intricate than any single step actually is.

The long fabric list is the point rather than a chore. A scrappy mix of autumn prints gives the leaves and the figure depth and variety, and the low-volume background keeps all that color from tipping into clutter. Pulling from a fat-eighth or fat-quarter bundle of Lori's Autumn collection is the quickest route to the look on the cover, though any warm fall palette works.

This is a large quilt with a lot of pieces and a lot of fabric placement to keep track of. The techniques stay familiar throughout, so the reward goes to staying organized: labeling pieces and working section by section. It suits a quilter comfortable with accurate cutting and piecing more than a first-timer, and the 62-page booklet walks through each part in detail.

The same scarecrow also comes as a cross stitch pattern, the Quilted Scarecrow Cross Stitch by Lori Holt, for anyone who wants to work the scene in thread as well as patchwork.

Product Details

• Brand: It's Sew Emma
• Item #: ISE-281
• Designer: Lori Holt
• Category: Quilting Pattern
• Skill Level: Not formally rated by the publisher. A large pictorial quilt with a high piece count and many fabrics, pieced throughout (no paper piecing, no appliqué). Best suited to quilters comfortable with rotary cutting, accurate piecing, and organized fabric placement.
• Technique: Standard Machine Piecing, Conventional Patchwork
• Finished Size: 80.5" x 85.5"
• Format: Printed Paper Pattern (full-color, 62-page booklet)
• Made in the United States