Carolina House Designs - American Coverlet

The shop now has all of the patterns from Carolina House Designs. Carolyn Webb (one of the ladies at the shop)has had a line of retail patterns for a number of years and has made some changes in how she is marketing her patterns. If you don't know Carolyn, she is a talented designer and teacher who has been teaching embroidery all over the country for the past twenty years.
All of her patterns are shown at carolynwebbdesigns.blogspot.com but can only be ordered from a retail shop. There are about 30 designs right now.
We are going to feature a few of the designs on the blog and have some of her models on exhibit in the shop. She is working on some fun new designs and we will have them as soon as they are available.
The patterns that we are spotlighting today are adapted from the woven coverlets that were created in the early 1800's in the United States. Itinerant weavers traveled around the country and using the wool spun by the women of the household, wove striking patterned blankets. The pattern could be woven from a standard pattern or created just for that family. The were usually white and one color and sometimes had dates and names woven into them. The overall pattern was created by designing one quarter and then mirroring that quarter for the whole coverlet.
The patterns can be stitched as just the one quarter or the whole coverlet.



Town and Country - whole design



Birds and Bees - quarter design



Hearts and Flowers - quarter design



Flowers and Trees - quarter design



Lions and Tigers - quarter design