Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978 - 1996

Library of Congress
Click Collection Items

Patchwork Pattern Maker

At the Victoria & Albert Museum

Thanks Camille

Online Quilt Design

This is one nice tool. When you are done designing you can print the block, view a line or color drawing and calculate yardage. Free block patterns galore.
From Jinny Beyer

Harriette Lawson bedspread designs

This collection of bedspread designs at the Patent Office
is one of my favorites. Inspiration for doll blankets.

Origami Tessellation freeware

My favorite new toy is Tess, an origami tesselation program generously shared by Eric Gjerde .
This little program does not install but runs in Windows ( I have XP home) from a gui.exe.
Do download the Documentation PDF but don't freak out like I did when I read the install instructions...they mention perl etc. The section after that is about running it from the gui which is so easy. Just click the gui.exe and Tess opens.
The patterns can be saved as postscript files which I opened with Illustrator. I've just begun playing but think that this will be useful for paper and quilting projects. Do visit the homepage and check out the gallery.
This is my first Tess.

I'm so happy! It's been a long time since I've found a fun, free art tool.