Tree of Life
Elemental Shapes that speak to master quilt maker Jane Sassaman
Tree of Life
The colorful, energetic and delightful quilts that Jane S. Sassaman creates stimulate an uncommon sense of curiosity and adventure for the viewer.
Jane has created over 75 garden inspired quilts in her personal quest to explore the beauty, magic and majesty of the core shapes and emotions that we call Nature. Luckily for us, patterns for the quilts shown here are FREE.
 Butterfly Garden |
 Paradise Garden |
Jane is on a mission to design the most beautiful fabrics imaginable. Her fabric productions are designed so that quilters can make incredibly ornate looking quilts with simple piecing using these extraordinarily graphic fabrics.
 Meditation |
 Zen Garden |
Jane describes her design principal as basically collage-like, both for the fabrics themselves as well as her original sewing pattern designs.
 Wild Weeds |
 Butterfly |
On her website, Jane graciously has provided free patterns and templates for many projects. In these photos of the free pattern quilts you can see one of Jane’s favorite design methods, squares set on point.
 American Gothic |
 bag and scarf patterns |
Try to imagine the personal meanings that Jane Sassaman absorbs from the many symbolic shapes that reoccur in her wonderful and wild mind-garden.
Download PDF links to Tree of Life pattern , link to Paradise Garden pattern , link to Butterfly pattern , link to Meditation pattern , link to Wild Weeds pattern , link to Butterfly Garden pattern , link to Zen Garden pattern . The American Gothic is shown as free but the pattern link is inactive. This inactive link could be corrected at some future date. A number of links on this website are inactive. Navigation is sometimes confusing.
