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Best Designer Pattern Books Quilting Books
Designer pattern books collect a single quilt designer's signature blocks and projects, from Kaffe Fassett's color work to Lori Holt's folk-art piecing.
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A Quilting Life: Creating a Handmade Home
Sherri McConnell
Sherri McConnell's home-focused pattern collection pairs approachable quilt projects with a broader handmade-home sensibility — sewing, gifting, and everyday domestic craft.
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Simplify with Camille Roskelley
Camille Roskelley
Fifteen quick, modern quilt patterns built for precuts — jelly rolls, layer cakes, and charm packs — from Moda designer Camille Roskelley of Thimble Blossoms.
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in America
Kaffe Fassett
Kaffe Fassett's collection of quilts made with his signature bold, saturated prints, photographed and pieced across American settings.
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Ireland
Kaffe Fassett
This entry in Fassett's travel-themed series leans cooler and more muted than its siblings — greens, greys, and stone tones drawn from the Irish landscape, run through his usual saturated stripes and checks rather than his brighter tropical or Mediterranean palettes. Part of an ongoing series of location-based pattern books built around wherever he's been working.
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Italy
Kaffe Fassett
Where the Ireland volume pulls toward cooler, muted tones, this one leans into Italy's warmer register — sun-bleached ochres and richer, more ornate pattern mixing that echoes the country's Renaissance textile tradition. Best suited to quilters already comfortable working with bold, layered prints who want his warmest palette in the location series.
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Kaffe Fassett's Heritage Quilts
Kaffe Fassett
Fassett reworks traditional, heritage-style quilt blocks using his signature multicolor prints and stripes, bridging classic patchwork structure with his maximalist palette. A good pick for quilters who want familiar block shapes rendered in unconventional color, rather than his more free-form location-inspired designs.
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilts by the Sea
Liza Prior Lucy & Kaffe Fassett
Longtime collaborator Liza Prior Lucy joins Fassett for a coastal-themed collection built around shell, wave, and nautical-stripe motifs rather than his usual location-and-landscape framing — his one title with a genuinely different organizing idea from the rest of the location series. Aimed at quilters drawn to color-saturated, print-heavy design work with a beach-house palette.
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Burano
Kaffe Fassett
Named for the famously colorful, canal-lined island in the Venetian lagoon, this collection draws its palette from Burano's painted houses. Fassett applies that vivid color sensibility to a full set of patterned quilts with complete instructions. Another entry in his location-inspired pattern book series.
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Kaffe Fassett's Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts: 23 Original Quilt Designs
Kaffe Fassett
This volume collects 23 original quilt designs built from basic geometric shapes — squares, triangles, stripes — used as a canvas for Fassett's dense, colorful prints. The straightforward piecing makes it a more accessible entry point into his work than his more intricate titles, and a good first Fassett book for a piecer who isn't ready for his most complex layouts.
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Romance
Kaffe Fassett
One of Fassett's earlier collections, organized around softer, more romantic florals and pastels than the bold stripes and checks he's better known for — his gentlest palette in the catalog. Best suited to quilters already familiar with his color-forward style who want to see the quieter end of his range.
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Road
Kaffe Fassett
Structured as a travelogue rather than a single destination, this collection documents quilts developed across multiple trips, with the fabrics and colors of each stop shaping a different design in the book. Where Quilt Romance is about one softer palette, this one is a tour through several — a foundational, wide-ranging title for readers building out a complete Fassett collection.
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Tula Pink's City Sampler: 100 Modern Quilt Blocks
Tula Pink
A reference collection of 100 quilt blocks, each with its own pattern and rotary-cutting instructions, designed to be mixed and matched into custom quilts. Aimed at intermediate piecers who want a large block library rather than a single fixed layout. A widely used resource for sampler-style and block-of-the-month projects.
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Quilts From the House of Tula Pink
Tula Pink
A collection of complete quilt patterns showcasing Tula Pink's illustrative prints and bold color combinations. Unlike City Sampler's block-library format, this book presents full finished quilt designs with complete instructions. For quilters who want ready-to-follow projects rather than a mix-and-match reference.
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Farm Girl Vintage
Lori Holt
A collection of vintage-inspired quilt blocks and small projects built around Lori Holt's farmhouse aesthetic, mixing appliqué and piecing. Blocks are designed to stand alone or combine into larger quilts. The original title in what became Holt's ongoing Farm Girl series.
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Farm Girl Vintage 2
Lori Holt
A follow-up to Farm Girl Vintage, adding a new set of blocks and projects in the same vintage farmhouse style. Works as a standalone collection or as an expansion for quilters who already own the first book. Continues Holt's mix of pieced and appliquéd block designs.
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Quilty Fun
Lori Holt
A broader sewing collection from Lori Holt focused on small, portable accessories — pillows, bags, pincushions, and other sewing-room notions — in her signature whimsical style, distinct from Prairie Home's larger home-décor pieces. Suited to quilters who want to branch into quick gift-sized sewing projects alongside quilting.
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Lori Holt
Lori Holt applies her farmhouse-vintage design sensibility specifically to larger home-décor pieces — table linens, curtains, and room accents — rather than the small portable accessories in Quilty Fun. Continues the visual style established in her Farm Girl books, aimed at readers decorating a whole room rather than making a single gift item.
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Seams to Me: 24 New Reasons to Love Sewing
Anna Maria Horner
A collection of 24 sewing projects spanning garments, bags, and home accessories, built around Anna Maria Horner's fabric designs and eclectic aesthetic. Broader in scope than a pure quilting book, it's aimed at sewists comfortable with a range of techniques. Reflects her design voice from the late 2000s.
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Amy Butler's In Stitches: More Than 25 Simple and Stylish Sewing Projects
Amy Butler
A sewing pattern collection of more than 25 projects — bags, home accessories, and small sewn goods — built around Amy Butler's fabric lines and color sense. Geared toward sewists rather than quilters specifically, with an emphasis on stylish, giftable finished pieces. Instructions target confident beginner to intermediate sewists.
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Simply Retro with Camille Roskelley: Fresh Quilts from Classic Blocks
Camille Roskelley
Moda designer Camille Roskelley reinterprets classic, traditional quilt blocks using modern fabric collections and simplified piecing methods. The book is organized around updating familiar block shapes rather than introducing new ones. Aimed at quilters who like traditional structure paired with a contemporary fabric palette.
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The Bonnie & Camille Quilt Bee Quilt and Cross Stitch Book
Bonnie Olaveson & Camille Roskelley
A joint collection from mother-daughter Moda design team Bonnie Olaveson and Camille Roskelley, combining quilt patterns with cross stitch projects in one book. The cross stitch component sets it apart from most quilt-only pattern books. Suited to crafters who want both skills covered in a single collection.
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Fresh Family Traditions
Sherri McConnell
McConnell's solo collection of family-oriented quilt patterns, published earlier in her catalog and reflecting her traditional, home-focused design style on her own. Family Favorites revisits this same territory a decade later with a co-designer and an updated pattern set — this is the original, foundational entry.
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Sunday Best Quilts
Sherri McConnell & Corey Yoder
A collaboration between Sherri McConnell and fellow Moda designer Corey Yoder, built around a "Sunday best" theme of special-occasion and dressed-up quilt designs. Combines both designers' traditional, fabric-forward styles. Includes full patterns for each quilt shown.
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Sherri McConnell & Chelsi Stratton
A 2024 return to the family-quilt territory McConnell first covered solo in Fresh Family Traditions, this time co-designed with Chelsi Stratton and built around a current, updated set of patterns rather than a straight reissue. Suited to quilters who already have McConnell's earlier book and want newer designs in the same spirit.
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Judy Martin's Ultimate Book of Quilt Block Patterns
Judy Martin
A block encyclopedia in the same spirit as Tula Pink's City Sampler, but from an earlier generation of quilt design — Judy Martin catalogs an extensive range of pieced block patterns with cutting instructions, meant to be mixed and matched into a custom sampler or medallion quilt rather than followed as one fixed layout. A longstanding reference for quilters who design their own quilts block by block instead of buying a single pattern.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What's the best designer pattern books quilting book?+
Look for the book marked "Teresa's Pick" at the top of this page — that's NiftyFifty founder Teresa Drummond's personal recommendation for designer pattern books. Below it you'll find 25 more books covering the same category from different authors and angles.
Do I need more than one designer pattern books book?+
Not usually. Most quilters do fine with one solid reference for a given technique — pick the one whose author's teaching style clicks with you, work through it, and only add a second if you outgrow the first or want a different perspective.