I would like to find out the name of the best selling quilt pattern of all time if anyone has an idea? With a picture and link if possible.

Now that would be a great project to take on, I am interested in knowing what the answer is to this one!!

I would think Double Wedding Ring or Grandmother's flower garden as both are so old.

And the survey says.....

This will be fun to watch.

I bet the dresden plate is up at the top of the list...

You and me as well - think it would be a personal choice

maybe the d9p, preparing fabrics for my DS's and googled more variations than a person could ever think of!

I'd guess Log Cabin

That would have been my guess. Have to keep watching this post to see what wins. BrendaK

Log Cabin is my choice.

My quess is Log Cabin too.

I kinda doubt that most log cabin quilts were made using a purchased pattern so "best selling" wouldn't apply to them. Purchased quilt patterns are a relatively new concept.

I would say Log Cabin or Grandmothers Flower Garden

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The question was for best SELLING - - -

I have no idea how to find that out - and for how far back?

Yes, I have to agree with the Log Cabin, as that is one of the very oldest patterns there are. Well documented in the early 1800's, and before that!!

The quilt guild I am in thought it might be the Yellow Brick Road.

I remember reading somewhere in the 1990's that Eleanor Burns Log Cabin book was the best selling quilting book of all time. Not sure where I read it and it's been a while but I think she revolutionized modern quilting with that book.

I think in the past few years, "Yellow Brick Road" is one of the most popular.

I would guess Ohio Star is way up there too.

ditto!!!

In days of yore, patterns were not used. Quilts were just made!!! :)

I would suspect your best selling pattern would be something relatively modern. Also, quilt patterns tend not to be individual, and more in books.

As for the most made pattern .... that's where your Log Cabins, Dresden Plates and GFGs would likely rise to the top.

How about all those patterns that were published in a Kansas newspaper? Was it the Kansas City Star? They published a new pattern every so often and to this day, they are highly prized patterns. These were published in the days of the Great Depression, if I am not mistaken. ( on second thought, I very well could be, it could have been during the dust bowl days, or???)

Those were the first two patterns that came to my mind. My aunt who was THE quilter in our family did GFG and one heck of a lot of bow ties, too.

Best selling??????????

Now that I think about it, that would leave out some of the most cherished patterns of all time. If there were templates, they were passed down and never paid for. Not to mention the patterns in newspapers and magazines that weren't charged for.

And at what period of time would anyone have kept track of money transactions.

On a similar bent, I hate when the movie with the most income is touted. Cripes. I've seen Gone with the Wind a couple dozen times. Only paid to watch once. Same with Wizard of Oz. How much did it cost to go to a movie in 1939? 10cents, a quarter?? You can't buy a stick of gum for a quarter nowadays.

I'm going to guess there are very few PAID FOR patterns of the log cabin. It is such a simple block, no pattern is needed.

Couldn't go very far back. Keeping track of sales has been a recent development, mostly in the computer age.

How does EB quilt a log cabin that would be new?
Obviously I've not read the book.

me too!

Yellow brick road is another very simple pattern. why would anyone need to spend money for the pattern?

Log Cabin would be my choice.

I agree with Laurie--Log Cabin

I agree with your reasoning.

'Back in the day', they used to print quilt patterns in the newspaper. So they would've been free asisde from the cost of the paper.

I would say it would be one of the "Quilting Personalities" that began marketing their patterns during the '70s resurgence and continues today, so Eleanor Burns or Nancy [sorry last name escapes me, "Sewing with Nancy], Kaye Woods, Fons & Porter, Jinny Beyer someone like that.

I would agree with this one!

That would be my bet too :D

My vote is for the log cabin quilt.

I would vote for the log cabin -- the Eleanor Burns book has been very popular and has had several printings.

I tried google with no luck. I did try www.quilthistory.com didn't find it there either. Interesting searching though.

Greatly interested in this subject.