A Gallery of Quilts to Inspire You! Before you begin designing your block for the Class Friendship Quilt, take a few minutes to view these quilts.
You will be designing a paper quilt block, 8 1/2” square, on a 4-patch or 9-patch grid, so look at these quilts with that in mind. Look for color schemes that appeal to you and designs that you feel are interesting. Use the ideas you find here as a springboard for your own design.
Here are some simple quilt blocks, in the process of being “pieced together” A Nine Patch Star
A Four Patch Mariners Compass
A Four Patch Star Four Patch Attic Windows A Four Patch Pinwheel VariationFour Patch Pine Tree Block
Pinwheels in a Four Patch formatPinwheels in a Nine Patch format
A Nine Patch Variable 8 Point StarNine Patch Octagon Design
Amish Quilts 1890 Red Amish Bars
Amish Streak of Lightning
1900 Amish Bow Tie
1910 Amish Blue Bars
1910 Amish Bears Paw
Amish Purple Bars
African American Quilts 1940 Alphabet Quilt
1970 Double Wedding Ring Quilt
1986-Faith Ringgold- The Men- Mask Face Quilt #2
1986 Faith Ringgold- The Women-Mask Face Quilt #2
Appliqué Quilts 1871 Grapes Wreath Quilt Inset shows detail.
Album Sampler Quilt-some are appliqué, some are pieced
Animal Appliqué
Pieced Patchwork 1875 Red Schoolhouse Quilt
Square on Square Quilt
1926 Wagon Wheel Quilt- Border is pieced, wheel is appliquéd
Contemporary Pieced Art Quilt by Caryl Bryer Fallert Feather Study #20