Kansas City Star Stencils and a Giveaway

Contest is over and my two winners are:

Ellen M. from Spain (digital copy of the pattern)

Vivian O. from Pennsylvania (CD of pattern and this lovely, embroidered block)

Many thanks to ALL who commented!

More blocks from the Kansas City Star. This is a series called "Quilting Patterns and Motifs" which features 27 quilting motifs from 1930 to 1938. I redrew each of these stencils using Adobe Illustrator. They are NOT scans of the old newspaper clippings.

This is an orphan block I got about 20 years ago when I was an editor with Quilt Magazine. The unknown maker decided to use it for embroidery. Lovely, huh?

Kansas City Star Motif: November 21, 1934

 The pattern fits a 6" square, so you can center it on a larger 12" background fabric:

6" motif embroidered

These can be quilting stencils or embroidery patterns. Your choice. But, what do the other 26 motifs look like? I'm glad you asked.

Here is my pattern cover (front)

Designs #1-16

Here is a closeup of Design 4 (which fits a 10-12" square):

And pattern back:

Designs #17 - 27

Design 26a fits a 3" x 8" space and could easily work as a continuous line stencil for machine quilting.

Motif Design #26a

OK. If I'm going to show 26a then I have to show 26b, right? This also is perfect for a continuous line design. It fits into a 6" space, but could easily be resized (via your printer settings) to make it larger. This is like stitching feathers in a circle. And just think of what you can do in that circle!

Motif Design 26b

What's the GIVEAWAY? Just like last week: the real block as shown here and the CD of all the designs that runs on any computer. Just leave a comment here about this post and you'll be entered to win. And I will choose one international winner also.

Contest is over Friday, October 25 at midnight (EST).

USA residents: CD plus the block. International visitors: digital copy from my Etsy store. I will pick one USA resident and one International visitor.

Thanks for stopping by!