England Design - Home of Cynthia England's Picture Pieced Quilts, Patterns and Books

Cynthia's latest quilt: One Fine Day

Welcome to England Design!

England Design is the web home of Cynthia England, an internationally known quilting instructor and quilt pattern designer. Cynthia is most well-known for her Picture Pieced quilts. Cynthia's most recognized quilt, Piece and Quiet, was chosen as one of the "The Twentieth Century's Best American Quilts" in 2000.In addition to this award, Cynthia won Best of Show at the International Quilt Festival in Houston for Piece and Quiet in 1993 and for Open Season in 2000.

Visit the Meet Cynthia and Cynthia's Resume pages to learn more about the recognition her quilts have received. The Contact Info page leads to more about Cynthia's Lectures and Workshops as well as her upcoming teaching schedule.

New Picture-Piecing Patterns Debut
England Design introduced 3 new picture piecing patterns at International Quilt Market and Festival in late October. These patterns are available online now on our Critter Series page.

Hen 'n Chicks, left, is a 24" x 24" quilt.

Barnyard Boss, right, is a 24" x 24" quilt also.

To jump directly to these pattern pages, click the quilt images or the quilt names.

The Buck Stops Here, left, is a 19" x 33" quilt and the final new addition to our Critter Series.

While we were at International Quilt Market and Festival, we held continuous demos by Cynthia and her staff to show how easy it is to Picture Piece. If you've never seen a live demo of Picture Piecing, we recommend you take a look at our new See For Yourself - Picture Piecing Video Demonstrations.

See For Yourself - Picture Piecing Video Demonstrations

We are proud to announce our brand new See For Yourself - Picture Piecing Video Demonstrations. Cynthia has decided to bring into your quilting studio the live demonstrations that are always so popular in her quilt show booths. Visit our See For Yourself - Picture Piecing Videos page to watch as Cynthia demonstrates how to picture piece her free Ice Cream Cone block pattern available on this site.

What's New at England Design

Visit our What's New page for information on what is happening at England Design as well as links to all our newest patterns and products. Here are just a few highlights.

Cynthia's quilt Tuscany, shown right, is featured in the January/February 2009 issue of the Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting magazine.

Jane Hall's - The Expert's Guide to Foundation Piecing includes a project by Cynthia England.

Cynthia is one of 14 featured designers in a book by Jane Hall. The book, The Expert's Guide to Foundation Piecing: 15 Techniques and Projects, by C&T Publishing, is available through our online catalog. Just click the book photo to go directly to that page.

Gallery of Cynthia England's Quilts

Cynthia England's award winning picture pieced quilt, Open Season

You can see photographs of Cynthia's picture pieced quilts, including detail photographs, by visiting the Gallery section of this site. Just click the Gallery button from any page.

Open Season shown left, and the detail photo of the bunny hidden in the quilt, shown right, are two of the photos you'll find in the Gallery.

Detail from Cynthia England's award winning picture pieced quilt, Open Season

Picture Piecing Patterns and Books
Through England Design, Cynthia has published over 50 patterns and two books. You'll find all Cynthia's currently available books and patterns on the Patterns and Books page.

Her book Picture Piecing: Creating Dramatic Pictorial Quilts provides step-by-step details of her picture piecing design and construction technique. It has sold over 20,000 copies.The book includes full color pictures of many of Cynthia's quilts and shows numerous examples of quilts created by other quilters who have used her picture piecing techniques.

Cynthia's pattern line is always expanding. The three Critter Series quilts (Hen 'n Chicks, Barnyard Boss, and The Buck Stops Here) shown earlier are her latest quilt patterns. The 2 latest pattern additions to her popular Small Landscapes Series are shown below.

Jump to Cynthia England's Grist Mill picture piecing quilt pattern page

Jump to Cynthia England's Season's End picture piecing quilt pattern page

Season's End, left, features a deer amidst a quite snowy winter scene. This is a 17" x 19" quilt.

The Grist Mill quilt design, right, was inspired by the Glade Creek Grist Mill in Babcock State Park in West Virginia. This is 15 1/2" x 17" quilt.

Fabric Packets For almost every pattern in her line, Cynthia has put together a Fabric Kit with just the right types and quantities of fabrics to duplicate the sample quilt for the pattern. You'll find these fabric kits are offered right on the same page as each pattern. In addition, England Design offers over 50 Fat Quarter Packets which feature 4 fat quarters each. These fabric packets feature great fabrics for pictorial quilts
	For instance, the tree bark fabric shown left is included in one of our Tree Bark Fabric Packets and the fabric shown to the right is included in one of our Hair Fabric Packets. Visit our Fabric Packets page to see all of our Fat Quarter Fabric Packets.
We now offer a few landscape fabrics by the yard or panel. These are fabrics that have beautiful scenes that will appeal to landscape quilt lovers. Visit our new Fabric Yardage page to see these fabrics.

Helpful Products Cynthia loves to make it easy for quilters to enjoy quilting with her Picture Piecing techniques and patterns. Her online product catalog continually grows as she finds new products that will be useful to her students and customers. You'll find all of these great finds offered through our Helpful Products page.
	The scissors and Fabrico pens, shown left, are examples of products that we now offer our customers because Cynthia found them so useful in creating her own quilts. The twill tape, shown right, is one of our newest helpful poducts. Visit our Helpful Products page to see our complete selection of useful picture piecing and quilting tools.

Student and Customer Showcase Cynthia and the England Design staff enjoy seeing photographs of the quilts that Cynthia's students and customers have created using her picture piecing patterns and books. We invite all Cynthia's students and customers to submit photos of their creations to our Student and Customer Showcase which includes examples of quilts made using either England Design patterns or using techniques learned from Cynthia's workshops or Picture Piecing book.
	Click the Showcase button on any page to see the wonderful quilt photographs people have shared with us or to get instructions for submitting your picture pieced quilt. Serena Toppins shared her quilt, shown left, based on the Snow Scene pattern. Donna Whitmer shared her "Road to McCall" quilt which she designed using Cynthia's Picture Piecing techniques.

Thank you for visiting England Design, we invite you to explore the site and enjoy all the beautiful quilt pictures. Be sure to visit our What's New page periodically to see the latest news from England Design.