What a crazy thing to ask! 2015 is long gone. But I have discovered that the days of the week correspond with the 2026 calendar. So, January 1 in 2026 falls on a Thursday. So did January 1 in 2015, so you can enjoy the blocks and quilt patterns again! 2015 Block and Pattern a Day Calendar There are almost 250 quilt blocks for 68 quilting projects! That is a BIG wow, don't you think? I began creating these block a day calendars in 2006 and my last one (like this) was 2020. Of course, I've just released my 19th block a day calendar with C&T Publishing and that is what's called a perpetual calendar. That means it is not tied to any one year. The one pictured above is - but now it's being recycled for 2026! There are several projects that were created by my former senior editor Jean Ann Wright. We did this together for a few years and then I went solo again. The first quilt "out of the box" is the Kaleidoscope. It's one I designed for Benartex fabrics and ...

I am in the final editing stage of my 19th quilting calendar. Yes, that is NOT a misprint! I've designed 15 block a day calendars (which sit on your desktop) and 3 wall calendars of quilts. The next one is the C&T Publishing version due out in June of 2025. I'm working through the months with an eagle eye for any and all mistakes. This is a daunting task, for sure. I'm almost finished with the January blocks and Prairie Flower appears in the January 27 slot. Prairie Flower made in 2008 I selected a set of Fossil Fern fat quarters (from Benartex) and began cutting the patches for this four block quilt (with the thin sashings between the blocks). I wonder if I still have this quilt! Each of the four blocks finishes to 8". Because my new calendar doesn't use any templates (all patches are rotary cut), I had to make the green patches out of half-square triangles and squares (not that funky patch you see there). Let me show you a quilt made by another quilter who u...