Ladies' Aid Album Sampler: Links to Free Patterns

 

The 2021-22 appliqued Block of the Month at CivilWarQuilts was

based on a large group of album quilts made in New York after 1850 or so.

Ladies's Aid Album Sampler features 12 pictorial blocks often seen

in that regional style. New Yorkers loved including animals, cows and cats, etc.

Links to the introductions:

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/03/ladies-aid-new-york-sampler-bom-starts.html

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/02/2021-bom-ladies-aid-new-york-sampler.html

One "official set" is a distinctly New York idea---linking the sampler blocks by leaving the corners empty, then filling them with an image that makes a secondary pattern, such as hearts.

That pattern is in the introduction

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/03/ladies-aid-new-york-sampler-bom-starts.html

The patterns were posted on the last Wednesday of each month beginning in March, 2021. Blocks are 15" finished and the quilt is 45" x 60" without borders.

Links to each block pattern below with examples made by our talented readers:

1 Carol Mallozzi

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/03/ladies-aid-ny-sampler-1-ellen-collins.html

2 Bonni F

Prize Cows

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/04/ladies-aid-sampler-2-prize-cows.html

3 Dee Banks

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/05/ladies-aid-album-3-floral-cockade.html

4 Lahree Marten Jenkins

Thoroughbred Horse

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/06/ladies-aid-album-4-thoroughbred-horse.html

5 Deanna Street

Union Flag

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/07/ladies-aid-album-5-union-flag.html

6 Christine Romero

Calico Cat

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/08/ladies-aid-album-6-calico-cats-calico.html

7 Vickie Wendell

New York Rose

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/09/ladies-aid-album-7-julia-beecher-new.html

8 Rebecca Schenkenburger

Social Butterflies

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/10/ladies-aid-album-8-social-butterflies.html

9 Karen Doerr Martin

Hearts & Darts

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/11/ladies-aid-sampler-9-hearts-darts-alerts.html

10  Elsie Ridgley

Hearts & Hands & Scissors

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/12/ladies-aid-sampler-10-tools-canandaigua.html

11 Robyn Gragg

Strawberries & Dogs

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/01/ladies-aid-sampler-11-strawberries-dogs.html

12 Barbara Schaffer

Birds They Sow Not

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/02/ladies-aid-sampler-12-birds-they-sow-not.html

Becky Brown's top

You can buy the whole set of 12 patterns at my Etsy Shop for $12:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/973413706/ladies-aid-new-york-sampler-12-fanciful

Do join our Facebook page. We are having much fun looking at each others' fabric choices

and how we are personalizing our cows.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/760271491561619