Cover of Hazel's Feed-Sack Quilt Book: Hazel in her kitchen holding a red and white Nine Patch quilt

Forty farm quilt blocks my mother taught me, with every story and every measurement.

A large-print pattern book you download today, read on your tablet or print at home.

40 traditional blocks, from a first Nine Patch to the Lone Star
A cutting chart for every block, most in three sizes
Step-by-step sewing with a drawing for each sewing step
A whole-quilt plan for every block, with sizes and yardage
Full-size patterns to print for the curved and hand-sewn blocks
Large print, easy on the eyes

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What is in the book

The blocks go in the order Mother taught them to me, the easy ones first. If you can sew a straight seam, you can start on page one.

Part One · 10 blocks

The First Blocks

Straight seams only. The first blocks Mother put in my hands.

Nine Patch · Four Patch · Rail Fence · Snowball · Shoo Fly · Churn Dash · Friendship Star · Pinwheel · Broken Dishes · Hourglass

Part Two · 10 blocks

Farm and Prairie

The blocks named for what was out the kitchen window.

Kansas Troubles · Rocky Road to Kansas · Prairie Queen · Flying Geese · Wild Goose Chase · Corn and Beans · Bear's Paw · Duck and Ducklings · Cake Stand · Log Cabin

Part Three · 10 blocks

Stars, Roads and Neighbors

More pieces, sharper points, and how to keep them sharp.

Sawtooth Star · Ohio Star · Road to Oklahoma · Jacob's Ladder · Bow Tie · Sister's Choice · Schoolhouse · Ocean Waves · Storm at Sea · Contrary Wife

Part Four · 10 blocks

The Sunday Blocks

Curves, appliqué and hand sewing, for when there is no hurry.

Grandmother's Flower Garden · Dresden Plate · Double Wedding Ring · Drunkard's Path · Kansas Sunflower · Grandmother's Fan · Tumbling Blocks · Sunbonnet Sue · Trip Around the World · Lone Star

How every block is laid out

The story. Where that block lived in our house and who sewed it.
How to know it in an old quilt, so you can name the ones in your own family.
The block and the cutting chart. Every piece lettered, every size written out, seam allowance included.
Sewing it, step by step, with a drawing beside each sewing step.
Make a whole quilt from that one block: finished size, number of blocks and yardage.
Full-size patterns at the back of the book for the blocks that cannot be cut with a ruler.

Sample page: the Shoo Fly block with a letter on every piece — The block, with a letter on every piece

Sample page: sewing the Shoo Fly in three steps, with a drawing for each — Sewing it, step by step

Sample page: a whole red and white Nine Patch quilt with its size, blocks and yardage — A whole quilt, with yardage

These are pages from the book, shown small. In the book the print is large.

A whole quilt with every block

Every block ends with a quilt you can make from it: the finished size, how many blocks, how much fabric and how the blocks are set. And there are three family quilts besides.

A red and white Nine Patch quilt laid out on a wooden floor — **Mother's Red and White**The Nine Patch we spread on the grass every Fourth of July.

A Kansas Troubles quilt in red, navy and muslin — **Mother's Kansas Troubles**Navy and red on muslin, with the little sawtooth triangles.

A small pink and white cradle quilt — **The Cradle Quilt**Pink feed sack and white. Sixteen babies in our family have slept under it.

Also in the book: The Car Quilt, a lap robe that teaches twelve easy blocks at once, and The Cellar Quilt, a memory quilt from family clothes, with a pocket on the back.

Why I wrote these down

Mother made every quilt in our house out of printed feed sacks. She never owned a pattern book. She kept the blocks in her hands and in her head, and she put them in mine one at a time at the kitchen table, starting with a Nine Patch the winter I was six.

I am past eighty now. There are forty quilts in the cedar chest, and I am the only one left who knows how every one of them goes together. So I drew the blocks out the way she taught them, wrote down the measurements she never wrote down, and put the story of each one beside it.

The old ways aren't lost, honey. They're just folded away in the chest.

Hazel

It comes as a PDF. Here is what that means.

Nothing comes in the mail. The book arrives by email a minute after you order.
Read it on a tablet, a computer or a phone. You can make the page as big as you like.
Print it at home on ordinary letter paper, or take it to the library or a copy shop. Print the whole book or only the block you are sewing this week.
It is yours to keep. You can download it again whenever you need to.

Hazel's Feed-Sack Quilt Book

40 blocks · a quilt plan for every one · 270 pages · large-print PDF

$27~~$47~~LAUNCH PRICE

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At checkout you can add the Kitchen Table Toolkit for $9: 87 pages to print and use at the table: a cutting card for every block with a box to tick as you cut, all 40 blocks in outline to color and plan with, the tables for figuring how many blocks and how much cloth a bed takes, and labels to sew on the back of your quilts. It is optional.

Questions people ask

Is this a printed book?

No. It is a PDF you download. You can read it on a screen or print it yourself. Nothing is shipped.

I have never made a quilt. Is it too hard for me?

Part One is ten blocks with straight seams only, and they are in the order to learn them. Start with the Nine Patch. The blocks with curves and hand sewing are at the back, and they will wait for you.

What size are the blocks?

Most cutting charts give three finished sizes, so you can make a block small for a wall quilt or large for a bed quilt. The blocks cut from full-size patterns come in one size. All measurements are in inches and already include the quarter-inch seam.

Do I need a rotary cutter?

No. Mother cut everything with scissors. The charts work the same with scissors and a ruler or with a rotary cutter and mat.

Do I need real feed sacks?

No. Any cotton print will do. The book tells you how to choose fabrics today that give the old feed-sack look.

How do I pay, and is it safe?

With a credit or debit card. Payment is handled by Gumroad, a company that sells books and patterns for thousands of small makers. I never see your card number.

What if I can't open it or can't print it?

Reply to the email your book came in and you will get help. If it still doesn't work for you, you get your money back.