Welcome to our home away from home. The Woolen Needle specializes in hand-dyed wool and reproduction cotton. We offer kits for quilting, wool applique, rug hooking, and punch needle. One-on-one help is always available. Classes for beginning wool applique, quilting, rug hooking, and punch needle are scheduled at your convenience. Gather your friends and give us a call to book a date in our classroom for the class of your choice. We invite you to shop the web-site, call or come and visit us in Williamsburg.
Summer Blooms – 22″ x 23½” – by The Woolen Needle
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Home for the Holidays – 56″ x 56″ – by Stacy Iest Hsu
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Our Home for the Holidays quilt kits are made with fabrics from the Holiday Cheer Fabric Collection.
***Please Note: The pattern includes instructions to make the quilt 80″ x 80″ (second photo showing 5 houses and 4 wreaths). Our kits include the pattern and fabric to make the 56″ x 56″ quilt shown in the first photo (showing 2 houses and 2 wreaths). We have included additional pattern pages in our kits with the cutting and layout instructions to make our smaller version.
Vintage Christmas – 50″ x 50″ – by The Woolen Needle
Vintage Christmas is made with panel blocks and fabric from the Holiday Cheer Fabric Collection. This fun wall hanging or lap quilt is sure to brighten the holiday season.
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Beatrice – 54″ x 72″ – by Villa Rosa Designs
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Fabric Requirements for this pattern include 12 fat quarters for rails, 1/2 yd for stars,1 yd background, and 5/8 yard for binding.
College Bound Denim Blues – 60″ X 84″ – by The Woolen Needle
This is a super simple scrappy strip quilt. It’s a quick and easy gift to make and a great size for that college bound student. It also makes a beautiful throw for the couch. This is a cozy and usable quilt that just gets better with time.
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Gumbo – 54″ x 64″ – by Villa Rosa Designs
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Fabric Requirements for this pattern include 12 fat quarters and 5/8 yard for binding.
Black Sheep – 76″ x 76″ – fabric by Pam Buda
This beautiful quilt is made using Pam Buda’s Black Sheep Cottons fabric collection. It uses a panel in the center, which makes this a quick quilt to make, and yet it is an impressive looking quilt. The star border is pieced with the beautiful fabrics in rich shades of black, cream, beige, gray, and taupe.
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“Orange Peel Runner” – approximately 12″ x 32″ (or 16″ x 24″) – by One Wing Wool
Using this great orange peel design by One Wing Wool, and our wool and thread, this simple runner is beautiful. It is a nice size for a table, coffee table, or shelf. Our kits include the pattern, wool, and cotton homespun backing. The squares can be arranged 3 x 8 as shown in the photo, making it a 12″ x 32″ runner, or 4 x 6, making it a 16″ x 24″ runner.
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Pears, Pears, Pears! – Large pears are 5″ tall, small pears are 4″ tall – by Cath’s Pennies Designs
These super cute stuffed pears, embellished with stitching, make great pin keeps or bowl fillers. Our kits include the pattern and enough of our hand dyed wool to make three gold pears, one large and two small with leaves. A stick can be used for the stem, adding to their unique character.
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“Fall in Montezuma” – 8½” x 13½” – by The Woolen Needle
“Fall in Montezuma” is a project we designed for a quilt guild workshop in Montezuma, Iowa. It is a small project that is quick to complete. Fall in Montezuma makes a cute mat for a shelf, table mat, mug rug, or tray topper. Our kit/pattern combo include the pattern, all of the wool you need for the mat, and cotton for the backing.
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We use Heat-n-Bond Lite, a paper-backed fusible, to fuse our wools. It can be purchased in the drop down menu below.
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Pumpkin Pin Cushion Tall – by The Woolen Needle
Finished pin cushion measures approximately 4″ x 6″.
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We stuff our pin cushions with ground walnut shells. They are available in the drop down menu.
We also like to use the Gold Eye Chenille Needles No. 24. If you need needles, they are available in the drop down menu as well.
“Fall Welcome” – 15″ x 18″ designed by The Woolen Needle
Our Fall Welcome banner is a nice size to display on a door to welcome guests into your home. It could also hang on a wall or lay flat on a table. Our kits feature hand dyed wool for the pumpkins and leaves. We are planning to continue this welcome banner through the seasons, making it a nice banner to switch out throughout the year. Be sure to watch the video below where Annette demonstrates how to lay out the design using an Appli-Fuse Mat.
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We hung our banner with the 12″ Quilt Hanger Single Leaf. Our 12″ Quilt Hanger Circle would also work well.
Comforts of Home – 6 3/4″ x 12″ – by The Woolen Needle
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Threads Used: Eleganza 05 and 2233
Our Rectangle Wooden Boxes are available HERE.
A Note from Annette…
Stitching takes me to my happy place! And I think about all the friends I have made over the past number of years. I look at these friendships as pieces of my Life Quilt. The goal at The Woolen Needle is to continue to inspire and share creativity with everyone who visits the website or walks through our door. I would love to have you join us!