Quilt Week: Hansel and Gretel from Piper's Quilts

I found this image on a quilter's blog, Freda's Hive in 2008, who took a picture of it at a fabric store in Salt Lake City, UT named Piper's Quilts.  At the time, the shop was apparently giving away patterns of the quilt for free according to the blog. I didn't find any mention or reference to it on the Piper's Quilts site although they do have an Etsy presence. Either way, I think this is a beautiful Hansel and Gretel quilt, one of my favorites this week.

I actually have several more quilts to share. I will either continue into next week or save them for sometime next year...

Quilt Week: Quilt King Fairy Tale Princess

Today's quilt is the Quilt King Fairy Tale Princess. This is actually a larger mass produced quilt available for sale from several online merchants such as Amazon. This one is easy to recognize as Cinderella. I like the color scheme and the pattern of this one so I had to share it.

Quilt Week: Little Red Riding Hood by Zylpha Sindara

This quilt was featured on Simply Quilts on HGTV here in the U.S. The quit was designed by Zylpha Sindara and the instructions for making it are available on the HGTV website at Little Red Riding Hood Quilt. The instructions are more in general for any fairy tale or story quilt. 

Quilt Week: Fairy Tales by Jenny Foltz

This is a fairy tale quilt designed by Jenny Foltz.  She has the pattern for sale on her website. This is another fun one with multiple fairy tales to identify. The picture is a little small to be sure about them all, but I see Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs, The Gingerbread Man and Little Red Riding Hood. Overall a fun kids quilt.

Quilt Week: Snow White and Rose Red by Colleen Voet

This is a quilt by Colleen Voet illustrating Snow White and Rose Red.  Here is what she says about it on her website:

My job for the 2009 quilt show for Foothill Quilters Guild was the Challenge. The theme of the quilt show was "Once Upon a Time." I had people pick a Dove Dark Chocolate from a bag; inside each was a promise, and they were to use the promise to pick a fairy tale, then base their quilt on the fairy tale. I picked "Buy Yourself Flowers" and used the fairy tale "Snow White and Rose Red" because the girs were "as fair as flowers that grew outside their cottage." I based the girls on a couple of Flower Fairy patterns, but enlarged them and turned them both into rose-type flowers. I used both fusible and needle-turn applique for the picture, and thought the background turned out pretty good considering it was my 3rd start and was 4 fat quarters sewn together. There are hot-fix crystals on both dresses.

This quilt was judged, and the judges gave it a 2nd place ribbon.

Quilt Week: Fairy Tale Pattern Books

So much of the country has been hit with the first big snowstorm of the season, that I thought it was time to share fairy tale themed quilts.  My Heiner grandmother was a quilter so I received a few quilts as gifts from her during my childhood. Most were of the basic pattern/ragbag variety, but a few were made with special purposes in mind such as a lamb baby quilt and an "H" quilt, for example.

In the last few decades, the art of quilting has been taken to amazing levels, especially with the advances in fabric production and prints when combined with embroidery techniques.  Today I offer books of patterns for fairy tale designs. This week I will offer other quilting images that have been shared around the internet.

These make me wish for a fairy tale quilt to snuggle under this cold, snowy, wintery day. How about you?

Once upon a Quilt: Fairy Tales in Fabric

Fairytale Quilts and Embroidery

Once Upon a Time Fairy Tale Puzzle Quilts

Quilted Fairie Tales: Love to Quilt Series

Fairy Tale Baby - Quilt Patterns

Once Upon A Time - 3 Children's Quilt Patterns

Once Upon a Time in X-blocks Land: Nine Magical Quilt Designs

Once upon a Time in the Country... October, Hickory Dickory Dock Quilt of the Month