A cheerful snowman rides into the scene in a little red wagon, bundled in a green pom-pom hat, a blue scarf, and blue mittens on twig arms, carrot nose and coal smile in place. A red snow shovel leans on one side and a row of pieced evergreen trees rises on the other, while the soft taupe background fills with pieced stars, snowflake blocks, and small patchwork snowballs. Every piece of it is patchwork, down to the wagon wheels and the carrot nose. It finishes at a generous 87.5" x 97.5", a bed-size quilt to bring out every winter.

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 58 pages, with cutting and assembly instructions for the snowman and wagon, the evergreen trees, and the surrounding star and snowball blocks.

What You'll Need

The quilt top pulls from a wide range of prints, so it suits a fat-eighth and fat-quarter bundle or a deep scrap collection. Beyond those, plan for the large background and backing.

• Blocks: about 13 fat eighths and 17 fat quarters, plus a range of larger cuts (½, ⅝, and ¾ yard prints)
• Background: about 5¾ yards of a print
• Binding: about ⅞ yard
• Backing: about 2¾ yards of 108" wide fabric, or 8⅛ yards of 44" wide

Full cutting amounts for every fabric are printed on the pattern.

Perfect For

• Quilters who want a winter or holiday showpiece 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 built entirely from pieced shapes
• Fans of Lori Holt's Home Town Holiday collection and her bright, traditional-patchwork style
• A handmade winter quilt to bring out year after year

Why You'll Love This Pattern

The entire scene is patchwork. The snowman, the red wagon, the evergreen trees, the stars, and the little snowballs are all pieced from ordinary rotary-cut squares, rectangles, and triangles, with no appliqué and no paper piecing. The finished quilt looks far more intricate than any single step actually is.

The long fabric list is part of the charm. A scrappy mix of prints gives the blocks and the snowman depth and a collected, vintage feel, and the soft taupe background keeps all that color calm rather than crowded. Pulling from a fat-eighth or fat-quarter bundle of Lori's Home Town Holiday collection is the quickest route to the look on the cover, though any warm holiday palette works.

This is a large quilt with a high piece count 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, and the 58-page booklet walks through each part in detail.

Product Details

• Brand: It's Sew Emma
• Item #: ISE-285
• 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: 87.5" x 97.5"
• Format: Printed Paper Pattern (full-color, 58-page booklet)
• Made in the United States