Free Monthly Quilt Block Patterns
Free Monthly Quilt Block Patterns
My quilt block for October’s Quilt Block Mania celebrates Oktoberfest. In years past, with young children at home, I would sew and quilt Halloween-themed items with them in mind. The girls are off on their own, and children no longer…
October has arrived, and I’m thinking of fun events, and Oktoberfest is one of them. (I’m not excluding Halloween.) I’m giving you a hint of my October Quilt Block Mania, which opens on Tuesday, October 7. I have a Bavarian-themed…
This month’s free blocks from Quilt Block Mania are designed around the theme of TECHNOLOGY. How many ways can quilters relate to technology? As I found out, in almost everything we do! I designed a microchip block to share with…
This month QBM designers are featuing FARM-THEMED quilt blocks. Such a variety of quilt blocks for you to gather and make a fun quilt, wall hanging, table runner, or something else! The pattern I designed for this month illustrates the…
This month, sew my free quilt block, “STYLE AND BEAUTY.” The Quilt Block Mania designers created various quilt blocks for the theme of Beauty We hope you enjoy sewing all of them! I’ll sew my block to the front of…
TODAY, Island Batik fabrics is releasing FUSION, the new fabric line for Swan Amity. The colors are gorgeous, and the textures are fun. Fellow pattern designers have re-colored one of their patterns using FUSION. I’m showing the digital recoloring of…
Medical Quilt Blocks is the theme for this month’s free quilt blocks from the designers in the Quilt Block Mania group. (Wow! That was quite a sentence!) I designed some foundation paper pieced letters that spell out the words: DOCTOR…
This month, the Quilt Block Mania pattern designers “took to the air” in designing their free blocks! I designed a foundation paper pieced block with 3 flying birds in formation. Choose your favorite fabric colors for the birds. Notice the…
This is no April Fool’s Day Joke! Would you like to garden without getting your hands dirty? This month you can! By sewing garden-themed quilt blocks using the free patterns the Quilt Block Mania designers. We’ve imagined new ways to…
This month, there are various “Fancy Drink” quilt blocks from the Quilt Block Mania designers! These blocks are free through March 31, 2025. You can find them by visiting the designers at the bottom of this blog post. After a…
Pojagi is a new-to-me sewing technique I learned from Elizabeth at Epida Studio. Pojagi, a Korean word, translates to wrapping cloth. It’s also a textile art form that makes reversible patchwork. I’m hooked! Elizabeth has adapted the original hand-sewing technique to…
This month’s focus is HOUSES – the free block theme from Quilt Block Mania Designers! While looking for house-style inspiration online, I typed “Dr. Seuss house books.” Remembering the illustrations from these books that my daughters enjoyed as children, I…