Little Quilt Company features the folk art of Kim Schaefer. Kim is a prolific designer with over sixty patterns and several books to her credit. Little Quilt Company offers you Kim’s individual patterns as well as her pattern books full of delightful folk art appliqué. You can easily find her newest patterns in our shopping area.

Unique Folk Art Appliqué Quilt Patterns

Kim Schaefer’s easy quilt patterns, with folk art charm, offer the beginner and experienced quilter simple patterns with easy instructions. Whether you choose the individual quilt patterns or the books, Kim will guide you through each step of her appliqué patterns for small wall quilts, tea towels, placemats, table runners, table toppers, hot pads, baby bibs, totes, sweatshirts, quilts and more. All are perfect for home décor or gifts, and are sure to delight friends and family alike.

Quilt Pattern Books

Quilt pattern #123, ABC SamplerKim Schaefer has published three quilt pattern books featuring her small quilts. These pattern books are filled with folk art flowers, shapely hearts, and homespun critters. A Cozy Quilted Christmas is her newest quilt pattern book. Flowering Quilts, published in 2006, offers you fresh folk art projects for your home. Some of her thoughts when writing these books are to provide you with many projects, each project being exceptional on its own, thereby offering a truly great book value. For example, A Cozy Quilted Christmas is a real pattern book with ninety designs and seventeen projects to decorate your home. Today Kim is working on her fourth quilt pattern book for C&T Publishing.

Easy Quilt Patterns

Kim uses basic techniques with clear instructions to design easy quilt patterns you can finish in a reasonable amount of time. These appliqué quilt patterns use fusible appliqué and simple piecing to make sparkling projects. Use Kim’s warm, glowing colors or choose your own fabrics. Whether you are looking for an easy quilt pattern for a wall hanging or for a full size quilt, you will find lots of quilt pattern options.

Secure Online Shopping

You can now purchase Kim Schaefer’s pattern books or appliqué patterns online with our new shopping cart. We accept Visa and Mastercard. All online credit card transactions are completely secure. Shipping for orders over $50 will be free! If you prefer to give your credit card number by phone, please select the ‘phone check-out option’, and then call with your credit card number to process your order. Please see our policies statement for information about other shop policies.

Kim Schaefer

Kim Schaefer is from southeastern Wisconsin where she lives with her husband Gary and sons Max, Ben, Sam, and Gator and dog Rio, all of whom she refers to as the “Neanderthals”. Kim and Gary also have 2 daughters, Cody and Ali. Cody lives nearby, Ali lives in Portland, OR. Kim’s stepsons, Gary Jr. and Dax also live nearby, and her 2 stepdaughters, Tina and Danielle, live in Phoenix.

Kim was formally educated at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where she studied fine arts and majored in fibers. At the age of twenty-three, Kim took her first quilting class and was immediately hooked. In 1996, Little Quilt Company was born and made its debut at Quilt Market in Minneapolis.

Kim Schaefer, a Multi-Talented Designer

In addition to designing quilt patterns for her Little Quilt Company and writing quilt pattern books for C&T Publishing, Kim designs fabric for Andover/Makower. You can explore her fabric collections in our shopping area. Leo Licensing is currently licensing her designs for her non-fabric products.

Look for Little Quilt Company on the Road

From her easy appliqué quilt patterns, to her many projects pattern books, to her latest fabric designs, you can view them all here on the web site. To visit with Kim in person, you can look over this schedule of regional and national shows. Kim and Gary will be on the road for Little Quilt Company with boxes and bags full of the best in folk art appliqué quilt patterns.
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