A little blue car toots its way up a curving country road, past a hillside dotted with crooked folk art houses, leafy trees, and berry-laden bushes, with more cars following behind. The whole scene is worked in hand-dyed wool appliqué over a soft cloud-gray sky and a plaid foreground, the road looping back and forth up the hill in true storybook fashion. Houses have bright doors and yellow-paned windows, trees mix wool and cotton in stripes and polka dots, and light embroidery adds the small finishing details. At 24 by 37 inches it makes a charming upright wall hanging for a hallway, nursery, or sewing room.

What the Pattern Includes

This listing is for the printed paper pattern only. Wool, fabric, thread, batting, and backing are not included.

The pattern provides full-size appliqué templates and complete instructions for the wool appliqué scene and the pieced wool-and-plaid background, with placement guides for the houses, cars, trees, and bushes. The embroidery details are taught separately: the Creative Stitching book (sold separately) is needed for the stitch instructions.

What You'll Need

The quilt is worked on hand-dyed wool, with a sky-blue background and plaid foreground, a black-cherry winding road, and a range of wool colors for the houses, cars, trees, and bushes. Cotton fabrics in stripes, plaids, and polka dots add pattern to the trees and houses. Embellishment uses Eleganza perle cotton, with backing and binding fabric to finish. The pattern back lists every wool, fabric, and thread color by name. Creative Stitching covers how to work each embroidery detail.

Perfect For

• Wool appliqué fans who want a whimsical, story-like scene rather than a geometric quilt
• Stitchers who enjoy small detailed pieces full of houses, trees, and vehicles
• A wall hanging for a nursery, child's room, hallway, or sewing space
• Anyone who likes mixing hand-dyed wool with printed cotton accents

Why You'll Love This Pattern

The winding road is the whole design, and it gives the piece its sense of motion: cars climb and curve up the hill while tilting houses and round-topped trees crowd the roadside, so the eye travels the same loops the little cars do. It is folk art with a sense of humor, and the mix of hand-dyed wool with striped and polka-dot cotton keeps every house and tree slightly different.

It is an appliqué project at heart, so there is no precision piecing to wrestle with. The background is simple to assemble, the detail lives in the layering and the light embroidery, and the upright 24-by-37-inch format makes a finished piece that is easy to hang and fun to look at up close.

Product Details

• Brand: Sue Spargo Folk Art Quilts
• Item #: SS79
• Designer: Sue Spargo
• Category: Quilting Pattern
• Skill Level: Advanced beginner and up (wool and cotton appliqué with light embroidery; simple pieced background; no skill level printed on the pattern)
• Technique: Wool and cotton appliqué, layering, light hand embroidery
• Finished Size: 24" x 37" (wall hanging)
• Format: Printed Paper Pattern; appliqué templates included
• Creative Stitching (sold separately) is required for the embroidery stitch instruction
• Made in the United States