Resources for Pieced BOM's & Quiltalongs

Westering Women by Mark Lauer

Mark just finished his sampler, which he pieced and bordered with prints from my Alice's Scrapbag repro collection from a year or two ago.

Nice collaboration, me and Mark (and Alice).

He enjoyed making a sampler of pieced blocks:

"I love the blocks you picked and wonder if you can suggest any resources for finding more similar style blocks. It's a great mix! "

Maureen G.'s Threads of Memory

in Morris Jewels fabrics.

I have ideas. He ordered the patterns for the Threads of Memory BOM we did a few years ago. Those are original star blocks I designed. 

Those of you who've been quilting for a while might be able to suggest 225 or so other pieced BOM's and sampler patterns. As far as resources I did a web search for 

pieced sampler BOM

pieced sampler quiltalong

Pam Buda's Conestoga Crossing

Fabric designers often offer free sampler patterns

to promote their fabric lines.

Nancy Gere's Generals' Wives

Some of these are several years old but you can still find links to

the free patterns.

It's not too late to catch up with Moda's traditional designers and their

BlockHeads Block of the Week 2017. Do a web search to find participating designers.

I looked at Pinterest boards of sampler quilts like this one:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/280349145528109604/

Some bloggers keep lists with fairly easy to follow links:

http://www.seamstobesew.com/block-of-the-monthweek-events/2017-block-of-the-months-and-quilt-alongs-around-the-web/

Debbie Mumm's Stars of Honor

http://www.debbiemumm.com/Projects/QuiltBlocks/2014/

Many pattern designers sell samplers in traditional colors and blocks.

Lori Smith's Abigail's Sampler

From Lori Smith's From My Heart to Your Hands pattern company.

https://www.frommyhearttoyourhands.com/Qstore/Qstore.cgi?CMD=009&DEPT=1155191200&BACK=A0001A1

UPDATE: Mandy sent this link on a 2017 CW BOM starting soon:
http://www.piecingthepastquilts.com/peace-and-healing-bow-ii

Carol Hopkins's Land of Lincoln

http://www.carolhopkinsdesigns.com/shop/Civil-War-Legacies-Click-on-quilt-title-to-see-full-story/p/244-Land-of-Lincoln-Sampler-sku-244.htm

Layer Cake Sampler Quilt Along

All triangles, all year

I have been doing these pieced block series since 1976 when I started writing for Quilters Newsletter,.

Several of my history-themed samplers have been published as books:

Civil War Sampler with 50 blocks and Facts & Fabrications with 20

are sill available from C&T Publishing.

http://www.ctpub.com/search.php?search_query=brackman

Borderland is out of print.

And....I still have a couple of blogs on line with series for traditional pieced weekly blocks.The patterns are free; you just have to scroll through the posts.

Cookie's Creek's Austen Family Album

The Austen Family Album with history about Jane Austen-- 36 blocks

http://austenfamilyalbumquilt.blogspot.com/2014/04/block-1-bright-star-for-jane-austen.html

Grandmother's Choice, 49 weekly blocks about Women's Rights.

http://grandmotherschoice.blogspot.com/2012/09/1-grandmothers-choice.html

And if that is not enough you can use my greatest resource:

BlockBase, 4,000 pieced patterns in a PC program. 

http://electricquilt.com/online-shop/blockbase/

Of course, I wrote it---but I must say it makes it easy to find themes, topics and related blocks. Design your own block-of-the-month.