Although Anne Orr certainly designed other styles of quilts, these charted type designs always remind me of her. These are patterns from a 1969-70 McCall’s Needlework & Crafts magazine and no designer is credited. I have a feeling I’ve seen these reprinted somewhere else, but maybe it was just a similar pattern.
I’ve never attempted one of these quilts, but they are very appealing. The patterns are simple squares and triangles which can be easily drafted on graph paper. Actually, you could adapt any simple cross-stitch design using this technique. I think any of these patterns would make an especially cute quilt for a child.
OTHER ANNE ORR POSTS: For Anne Orr Patterns published by Lockport Batting, click here, and for a vintage Anne Orr Mosaic Rose quilt kit, click here.
Love the idea that you could adapt a simple cross stitch pattern into a quilt pattern. Aren’t you clever?!
Those are lovely – you’re going to have me looking at my cross-stitch patterns with a new eye!
I also find the second quilt design very familiar, I believe that it was in McCall’s as a picnic blanket in 1972-1974
I love the birds and the bugs! I think the one with the oval in the center would make a great table cloth!
Wow! Those are really pretty – I like the border treatments especially. I hung on to an awful lot of cross stitch patterns from the eighties. That would be an interesting and challenging way to put them to use!
So cute! Thank you so much, Martha for the details and the pictures.
It is such a unique take on cross-stitch patterns 🙂