Redwork Index
This website is chock full of Redwork books, files, and free patterns for Redwork and Outline Stitch Embroidery. For your convenience, here is a listing of sources for information.
Free Redwork Books to Now Read Online
Stitch Instructions and Diagrams Included
Redwork Embroidery and Needlework Traditions in Europe and America
This book is for those who love Redwork, Greenwork, and Bluework and other embroidery, as well as quilts. Included are Vintage Designs featured in actual objects and also as line drawings from antique sources in our collection. Examples of both American and European needlework are provided. Where else could you see an example of a “Schneebellschlacht”? Fans of the Victorian Age will particularly love this volume, as will historians, and those who appreciate embroidered messages on the surface of textiles. Enjoy this colorful and wide variety of needlework!
Just for Fun Redwork Book with antique designs with almost one hundred antique designs.
Emma's Quilt Redwork Book with more than one hundred antique designs.
Two more Redwork books that have an emphasis on Redwork History will be added soon.
A Variation of Redwork: Purple Work!
This is a pictorial image of the nursery rhyme: "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son..."
Antique block in the collection of Patricia Cummings. photo by James Cummings
Redwork Articles
Redwork Quilt by Margie Hammett Wins Award
Redwork - an review of transitions, over time.
Redwork History - a second history article, written in 2007
Close-up of a German splasher. Collection of Patricia Cummings.
History of Redwork Splashers - a discussion about splashers
Antique Redwork Examples - photos of items recently collected
Redwork Embroidery - Nineteenth Century Style: Pillow Shams and An Apron
Carol Godreau's creation: The "Grace Deering" Ship Quilt. This quilt utilizes Outline Stitch embroidery. Read the family history associated with it.
Fiddler Jones poem page has a close-up photo of a fiddler that appears on a nineteenth century baby bib.
Free Patterns Page - includes some special designs from the late nineteenth century Cunnings catalog
Song File - "Los Peces En El Río" has a Bluework image of the Holy Family
The Turtle Quilt - a delightful twentieth century outline stitch embroidery quilt and what we have learned about it so far. Photos and information contributed by Julie Liebenhofer.
Antique Redwork Object - A Tote Bag with "Flower Girl"
Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest - a 19th century design that Pat has researched and re-created.
Related File: (antique) Kate Greenaway Designs provided by Joan Kiplinger.
Louisiana Crazy Quilt Block reproduction - my repro. features a Redwork design
Bluework image of Patricia Cummings' grandson, worked from a photo.
Current Bluework Articles by Patricia Cummings in print: a two part series in The Quilter magazine (September and November 2007.) The September issue featured American examples. The November issue is on sale in September and focuses on European Bluework. Don't miss these! www.thequiltermag.com
Patricia Cummings has done Redwork since the age of five, and, in fact, created the little bear that is now our logo. To read more about her other activities, please visit the "About Pat" page.
Join a new Yahoo group for enthusiasts of Redwork, Bluework, Greenwork, Pinkwork, Purplework, Yellowwork
and other kinds of Outline Stitch embroidery, and its History:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/outline_stitch_embroidery_and_history/
When you request membership, you MUST state your name.
A group member was looking for a peacock image. Lo and behold, we have one in our fourth Redwork book that is not yet posted online, but here are two images. The first is a line drawing with a link to an image which will print in a larger size and the second is a photo of the block.
Copyright 2007. Quilter's Muse Publications, Concord, NH. Comments? Questions? Please write to: pat@quiltersmuse.com