CLICK HERE   to view this on my blog and not in the Follow It newsfeed. February 10 features the Lone Pine Tree Block in my calendar. It's 6". Pine Tree  February 11 (tomorrow) features the Little Star Block: The House (from Monday) and these two blocks were designed to go together. They were featured in a previous calendar and I made a quilt with them. But I can't find the picture of my quilt! Here are 3 quilts made by blog followers who used my Warm Welcome Home pattern: Warm Welcome Home pattern And another: Warm Welcome Home pattern And one more: Warm Welcome Home pattern Here is the link to the quilt pattern . You must have a copy of the calendar to make the quilt (to cut the block patch sizes). It includes a coloring chart for you to plan your fabrics. It is a 3 page pdf, and though it says it's a "quilt shop only program," that was from 2007 and I'm not offering these patterns to quilt shops at this time. Enjoy!! And if you make the quilt, I'd...

Hard to believe, but I have authored 18 quilting calendars since 2006! 15 of those were desktop, block a day calendars with full instructions for making dozens of quilts in each. Do you remember these?  I began creating these in 2006 and my publisher retired the projects after 2020. Big sigh, but, to tell you the truth, they were a LOT of work! Besides having to create 320 unique quilt blocks for each one, I had to  have dozens of quilt patterns (and I mean DOZENS!) for each year. That meant not only designing them but calculating all the yardage, etc. You can bet I negotiated a much higher compensation after the first 2 years. Who works for 10 cents an hour (except in China) these days? Here's one from my 2016 calendar (July). I called it Gold Star Eagles. I used a vintage appliqué eagle combined with that awesome Rising Sun and variation blocks. They are 12" x 12" with the whole quilt finishing to 50" x 50". Gold Star Eagles from my 2016 Block a Day Calendar ...

13 Quilts for $15.00. You can't beat that! This was a wall calendar of quilts published in 2012 and I've put everything into a 92 page pdf on CD. Full color. Well illustrated. Check out the slide show I put together with Smilebox . If you view it, try to avoid a phone or iPad. It gets crazy on those devices (and I hope Smilebox can fix it for me). Pattern in Etsy shop . Check out the slide show on Smilebox to see all of the quilts This is NOT available for download. It's just too big. Here's the back cover of the original calendar: 2012 Wall Calendar of Quilts Royal Star is there. This was inspired by an early 1900s block made with templates! Mine is quick rotary cut (9 patches) and easy paper piecing those corner points. Royal Star: 49" x 49" So is my Snow Crystals. Again: inspired by a vintage block. Also paper pieced. Snow Crystals: 33" x 33" Several of these individual quilts are in my Etsy shop. But you can have ...

We all have a fabric stash. Some have a LARGE stash. But we all have a little scrap bin or piles of fabric we are reluctant to trash (which rhymes with stash!). My favorite line in teaching anyone to quilt is: ALWAYS make a sample block before you cut and sew for a large quilt. My 14 years with Quilt Magazine gave me hundreds of opportunities to make Stash Blocks. We had a feature in each magazine, which we then put up on our now defunct website, called Stash Blocks. Here is one of my favorites: Autograph Star . While mine is filled with color, you can leave that center strip plain for a signature quilt. This first appeared in Quilt in 2007! 12" finished Autograph Star This also appeared in my Quilter's Block a Day calendar: Autograph Star by Patricia Bryant of Australia Click the links for the FREE pattern. And if you like making one 12" block, you'll enjoy making more. Have a great weekend!

Let's see some more of the upcoming quilts in the 2019 Quilter's Block a Day Calendar. It's more than blocks - there are whole quilts (42 of them). (For those who want to see 6 months of my 2018 calendar - I'm still uploading - you can visit my Pinterest Board to see 33 projects!) Here are the ones that appear in February of the 2019 calendar : The Vintage Redwork Sampler has 9" blocks and finishes to 32" x 32". Borders are your option to finish this larger. Perfect for those who enjoy redwork embroidery. These blocks appeared in the Kansas City Star in the 1930s and I redrafted them (tediously in Adobe Illustrator) 15 years ago. Timeless! Vintage Redwork Sampler This hearts Sampler uses 7" blocks (paper pieced except for the Scrolled Hearts in the Center) and finishes to 35" x 35". Hearts Sampler Castles in the Air has both 4" and 12" blocks for a 40" x 40" quilt. Castles in the Air And the fo...

It's hard to believe that I've been published these Quilter's Block a Day calendars for 13 years! It's true and the 2019 edition is now available. Here is the cover: 2019 Quilting Block and Pattern a Day Calendar Let me show you the various projects inside. There are 42 different quilts in various sizes and "personalities." Appliqué, rotary cutting, paper piecing - it's all there. Here are the January projects : Celebrate Snowflakes is 40" x 40" and is appliqué. I can almost see this also as a Hannukah quilt, couldn't you? Celebrate Snowflakes  MacDonald's Farm is both appliqué and piecing. Size: 40" x 40". Perfect for a child's quilt. MacDonald's Farm Stars and Roses is very traditional with both appliqué and piecing. Quilt Size: 72" x 72" Stars and Roses This is not available until July 17, but many places give you the option of pre-ordering. I'll have more blog posts this mo...