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Barri Sue Gaudet is the designer behind Bareroots, a pattern company for hand embroidery, wool appliqué, stitchery, and wool felt projects. If you are looking for patterns for quilts, pillows, candle mats, and similar small decorative pieces, Bareroots is the brand to browse at bareroots.com. The site describes its catalog as "embroidery and appliqué patterns for quilts, pillows, candle mats and more."
What Barri Sue Gaudet Designs
Barri Sue Gaudet works across several related needlework traditions rather than a single technique. The Bareroots catalog centers on:
- Embroidery — hand-stitched designs, typically worked in thread on fabric.
- Wool appliqué — shapes cut from wool and stitched onto a background, a style that gives projects a soft, dimensional look.
- Stitchery — a general term for decorative hand-stitched work, often combining simple embroidery stitches with appliqué.
- Wool felt — felted wool used as a material for appliqué shapes and small projects.
These techniques overlap in practice. A single Barrioots-style project might use wool appliqué for the main motif and embroidery stitches for details, which is why the brand groups them together rather than separating them into distinct product lines.
Signature Project Types
The Barrioots catalog is organized around finished objects rather than only techniques. The site specifically names:
| Project type | Typical use |
|---|---|
| Quilts | Larger bed or wall pieces combining piecing, appliqué, and embroidery |
| Pillows | Decorative cushions, often with an appliqué or stitchery center panel |
| Candle mats | Small mats placed under candles, a common wool appliqué project |
| "and more" | Smaller decorative and seasonal items in the same style |
Candle mats and pillows are good examples of how the brand's patterns work: they are small enough to finish in a reasonable time, they showcase wool appliqué and embroidery together, and they function as home decor rather than as wearable items.
How Crafters Use Barrioots Patterns
A Barrioots pattern is a set of instructions and templates, not a finished object. Using one typically means:
- Choosing a project from the site's categories — for example, a candle mat or pillow design.
- Gathering materials — wool, wool felt, background fabric, embroidery floss, and basic hand-sewing tools.
- Transferring or cutting the design — appliqué shapes are cut from wool; embroidery motifs are transferred to fabric.
- Stitching by hand — combining appliqué stitches to attach wool shapes with embroidery stitches for detail.
- Finishing — assembling the stitched panel into the finished quilt, pillow, or mat.
Because the work is hand-stitched, these are portable projects. A candle mat or small pillow can be worked in short sessions, which is part of why the brand's smaller formats are popular with crafters who want a finished piece without committing to a full-size quilt.
Where to Find Barrioots Designs
The designs are browsable at bareroots.com, the Barrioots Designs website. The home page serves as the entry point to the catalog of embroidery and appliqué patterns. From there, you can look through the project types described above and identify patterns that match the techniques and finished objects you want to make.
If you are new to hand embroidery generally, it helps to start with a small project — a candle mat or a single motif — before moving to a full quilt, since the smaller formats let you practice appliqué and embroidery stitches without a large material investment.