Redwork - a Vintage Needle-Craft

Ranked #11,575 in Arts & Design, #214,508 overall

This lens is on history and pattern sources in the world wide web for the wounderful vintage needle-craft Redwork and it's use in Redwork quilts...

All about Redwork

I will share links to tell you about Penny Squares, introduce you to Kensington Outfits and splashers. You might read about tidies and coverlets, quilt collections and "The Ladies'Home Journal". You will hear about perforated pattern and other transfer methods as well as Redwork's European roots and/or spin-offs...

Leave your comments and suggestions...

...on anything Redwork and/or "Redwork in Germany" related ...

submit

Redwork related Links

links to Redwork history, Redwork pattern, how-to's etc

Grandma's Attic Quilting com
A good start to read about the basics of Redwork and a great source to buy pattern and supply.
Redwork Revisited by Cindy Brick
An online "re-print" of an article by Cindy Brick : "Redwork Revisited" which first appeared in McCalls Quilting. It is about the beginning of Redwork and the "Penny Squares". With nice Redwork illustrations and the picture of an impressive vintage red & white signature quilt.
Redwork Info by Barbara Parish
Barbara Parish site is an eldorado of Redwork pattern. A lot of them inspired by vintage motifs. She used to have a free Redwork pattern of the month but seam to have stopped them in February 2006. The older once are still online, though.
Bobby Socks
You'll love her site. She offer beautiful rather realistic Redwork pattern, runs a pattern of the month "Dress me up" with cute little dresses as freebie pattern...
A Redwork Primer
This is a very practical hand-on guide, one of few that tells you about thread colors in Anchor and DMC has links to stitch guides etc.

Redwork on Amazon

see what's available in print....

Not many books are available about Redwork only, but the once I know off can be found via Amazon (new & used).

Then there are also quite a few magazines that feature article and/or pattern on Redwork now and then....
Loading

There is Redwork on eBay

Loading

"Redwork in Germany's" photo sets on flickr

curated content from Flickr

My "Redwork in Germany" blog RSS Feed

My blog's main topic is Redwork but you'll read about some other "more or less" Redwork related topics, too. Like the tutorial to make your own floor-standig quilt frame...
Loading Fetching RSS feed... please stand by

by

Redwork in Germany

I am fascinated by Redwork and a lens in addition to my blog "Redwork in Germany" will help me to spread the word and document the wounderful... more »

Feeling creative? Create a Lens!