A New Quilt Book – Full of Patterns, Color, and Inspiration
There’s something special about opening a new quilt book. The feel of the pages, the burst of color, and the endless ideas that start flowing. I’m excited to share that my newest quilt pattern book is ready and available! This book has been in the works for quite a while—sketched at my kitchen table, pieced in my sewing room, and finished with all the love and care that I put into every quilt I make.
Book in Print
Inside, you’ll find 12 complete quilt patterns—one for each month of the year. Whether you’re in the mood for something small and quick or ready to take on a larger project, there’s a pattern here for you. Each design has simple step-by-step instructions, full-color diagrams, getting started section and how to bind a quilt.
Monthly Patterns Include:
January – Baby Star Quilt, 44″ x 44″
February – Baskets Around a Quilt, 42″ x 42″
March – Four Patch Quilt, 36″ x 36″
April – Make it Special, 30″ x 30″
May – Scrappy Quilt, 60″ x 54″
June – Breaking Down a Quilt Block, 6 assorted block patterns
July – 4 Barn Quilt Blocks, each 12″ x 12″
August – Edison Tree Quilt, 38″ x 38″
September – Put on Some Red Lipstick Quilt, 60″ x 70″
October – Grand Four You Quilt, 60″ x 52″
November – 13 Simple Quilt Blocks in 3″, 6″, and 12″ sizes
December – Golden Eye Quilt, 34″ x 34″
This book isn’t just about making quilts—it’s about taking time for yourself, playing with fabric, and bringing your creativity to life. Whether you’re quilting for your home, a friend, or just for the pure joy of making, I hope these patterns inspire you to pull out your favorite fabrics and start sewing.
I love Barn quilts, but let’s face it, barns aren’t exactly a common feature in suburban homes or my condo area.
That’s why I designed four quilt patterns inspired by those rustic blocks of goodness!
Four Complete Quilt Block Patterns
Each 12″ x 12″ quilt block comes with cutting and piecing instructions, plus you’ll learn how to create squares, triangles, and flying geese quilt blocks.
All of 2025 Quilt Patterns are NOW in my NEW Book:
All in ONE Year Quilt Patterns 2025
Tips for purchasing old or antique quilts from The Quilt Ladies
Heading off to Publix’s this past week to pick up sister’s birthday cake I saw an estate sale sign and of course the truck turned itself down that street?!?
A little condo, nice, but nothing I needed UNTIL…the table in the main bedroom. Quilts! This was the only handmade one.
I love the untold stories in every stitch, stories of long nights by lamplight, scraps saved from worn-out dresses, and hands that stitched with love, patience, and often necessity.
I don’t purchase many things anymore, but I do purchase quilts. I love browsing a flea market, a local antique shop, buying an old quilt isn’t just shopping—it’s adopting a piece of someone’s history.
A Few of My to Do’s when purchasing an old Quilt
UNFOLD the quilt onto a flat surface, IF on floor ASK. At this estate sale the estate clerks, didn’t like this…I have NO idea, probably not a quilt people?!? But I asked and opened the quilt (on to the bed) and I did a bit of a lesson for them, fabric quality, stitches, binding, and batting.
Turn it over and do the same thing to the back. Again, estate sale estate clerks, didn’t like this. I did it anyway. And after a bit…ladies please read the person, read the room. NO one else was in the condo, them, and me?!?
All quilts at estate sales will be fading, discoloration and normal wear, they were used.
Look for stains, dry rot or brittle fabric means that is cracks when handled. Give the quilt a sniff too, a storage musty smell can be hard to remove and a smoke smell I always walk away from, it doesn’t come out. “If you’re determined to rescue a quilt with a mild odor, know that careful airing, baking soda treatments, or professional textile cleaning may help—but don’t expect miracles with heavy smoke or mildew.”
Workmanship and materials, old 100% cotton, feed sacks, wool, or silk all have a place in quilting. Is the quilt hand stitched, machine stitched, how quilted, I always seem to go for hand stitched. Hand stitched, small stitches, holding all layers together.
Pattern and design matter too, especially if you’re collecting. Some patterns—like the Double Wedding Ring, Grandmother’s Flower Garden, or Log Cabin—are more sought after by collectors.
Buy what you love! If a quirky, one-of-a-kind scrap quilt makes your heart happy, that’s more important than following what’s “valuable” on paper.
Color choices can also hint at the quilt’s age. Browns, indigos, and turkey reds often point to the late 1800s, while pastels came into fashion in the 1930s.
How will you use this quilt, or will you? “Will it live on your bed, hang on a wall, be folded on a bench, or tucked away in a collection?”
Look for Repairs and Damage Beyond Wear Check for old repairs, new patches, or even color-mismatched fabrics. Some repairs are charming and part of the quilt’s story, but others may have been poorly done or with materials that won’t age well. Look along seams and in high-wear areas like edges and corners.
Confirm it’s a Quilt (Not a Comforter or Blanket!) It sounds silly, but at some estate sales, things get labeled “quilt” when they’re actually mass-produced bedspreads or blankets. Look for the traditional quilt layers: a pieced or appliquéd top, a middle layer of batting, and a backing—all held together with quilting stitches.
Trust yourself, if the price feels too high for the condition, or if you’re getting a bad vibe from the sale, it’s okay to walk away. There will always be another quilt. And sometimes the hunt is half the fun.
Bring cash if you’re at a smaller estate sale, and don’t be afraid to negotiate a little—especially if you’re buying multiple quilts or if the sale is winding down for the day.
If you’re shopping online, don’t be shy about asking for close-up photos of both the front and back. A seller who knows their quilts should expect questions.
This quilt a few problems, 3 tiny fabric holes in the back fabric, all in the same area. Batting has shifted under some of the butterflies into large balls of batting. No binding, binding had been removed and top/bottom straight stitched around the edge.
I ONLY purchase quilt now that can be machine washed and dried in the dryer. This butterfly quilt was washed 2 times, mending in one place on the back and washed/dried again. This will be a use it quilt.
YES, I buried the lead…The Price, $10.00, sometimes you must purchase a quilt.
It’s been crazy here for a bit, it’s plain life. Life handed us a storm you never saw coming, our storm came with my husband’s health battles. Hospital visits, long nights, and endless waiting rooms can leave you feeling like you’re spinning in place with no footing.
I created I needed in MY day-to-day life things, a sense of order, a landing spot, and daily joys to hold onto.
I stated with my Quilt Planner—pages full of spaces to remember, share the possibility, reminding me that I make beautiful things and I don’t want them to be forgotten. I have added spaces for daily feelings as I work on a project, fabric swatches, ideas, it’s all in one space.
Then came a Monthly Daily Planner. I needed something to help me keep track of the endless lists in my head—appointments, to-dos, meds, phone calls, meals. All those tiny pieces of life that start slipping when your heart is so heavy.
My Daily Reading & Journal, has been in the works for years. This is a project from my heart. My 15 second daily reading, quiet space for reflection, thoughts, and questions. Some days I write one word. Some days I write all the lines given. One reading per day, each is dated and YES, I usually read them 2-3 times a day when I need to take a deep breath. They make me feel a little more grounded.
My Password Log– This log book began out of necessity. When my husband served as the executor of a dear friend’s estate late year, we quickly realized how important it is to have everything written down, organized, accessible, and in one place.
I have heard it said, “Everything’s on my Phone,” but who has the code to get into your phone???
I love, need, and use notebooks and this one is all me with my original watercolor flowers added to the pages. I basically made my dream notebook and justified it as “totally practical.” Eighty lined pages of pure possibility.
Let’s be honest: some days I am writing deep thoughts, and other days you’re just scribbling “don’t forget to buy toilet paper.” Both are valid. And this journal doesn’t judge.
It’s big (8.5” x 11”), beautiful, and waiting for your brilliance or your mess. I keep mine nearby at all times. It’s my brain’s best friend and has become my go-to gift for friends. If you’re looking for a notebook that feels like a warm hug and makes you look like you have your life together… this might be it.
Daily Happiness
And perhaps the dearest to me right now: a littleHappiness Reading each day. Just a few lines of joy, encouragement, or quiet wisdom to whisper to my tired heart: “You’re doing okay.” Sometimes, that’s all I need to hear.
I didn’t plan to create all these things at once and am working on a post for each, they are wonderful, useful and mine, and here is the place I share. I followed what my heart needed. And page by page, piece by piece, I found a little piece of my own again.
And while I was waiting to receive my author copies of the above books, I put my 2025 Monthly Quilt Patterns book together, All is One Year Quilt Patterns 2025. And I have to say, “It’s one of my new favorites!”
A few weeks ago, I showed Husbands fishing quilt, and was asked about an older post I did a few years ago, found it and here it is.
(Revised)
I’m always on the look out for old quilts and IF I think I can save them I purchase. They have to be washable and usable, nothing better, no matter the temperature is a quilt to cuddle in. This is(was) a recent purchase !
There are 3 blocks that needed attention, I ALWAYS wash quilts before I mend, this one turned out VERY nice, they usually do !
I like making a paper temple for the applique piece I’m adding
Try to make it exact and add seam allowance at the time of cutting (it’s easier to do this way)
This is the same fabric, one is the right side
and one it the back side
Add the seam allowance and cut out piece
Fold down the point and press
Fold the sides over, I like to press everything and I use the tip of the small scissors to hold as the fabric will get HOT !
Applique the pink down
I hand quilt them too, it completes the look and makes it VERY hard to find the new piece.
3 baskets I fixed on this quilt
Can you find them ?
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This quilt block is from my quilt book which started my quilt pattern company “The Ladies” quilt pattern book.
“The Ladies” are The Quilt Ladies. They quilt every Tuesday together and after years of doing that, they’ve decided to do a quilt pattern book. So “The Ladies” was born, a quilt block sampler pattern book with 68 – Eight by Eight Inch quilt pattern blocks. If you make the quilt as in the book the finished quilt measures 76″ x 84″ All straight pieced, all cutting and piecing instructions included. And NOW in Print and eBook
Quilt Block has a finished size of eight inches by eight inches.
Last weeks, weekly quilt block was my fish quilt block I did for Husband. We have a culture here in our family of NOT giving up our quilts and here is how I fixed Husband’s fish quilt.
They were all on seams, fabric becoming weak? I think YEARS of use.
AND let me add…PLEASE press your seams to ONE side, DO NOT press as you would making clothes. I know it’s a thing now to press open, but DON’T you will only weaken the threads and seam.
This weeks quilt block is Husband’s Fish Quilt block. This quilt has been traveled with, used and it’s the softest quilt in the house !
This quilt block has a finished size of 10″ x 10″, quilt block pattern is below, simple half-square triangles and patchwork squares, it will be great with prints or soft pastels.
This quilt is loved, used, washed and dried. Finished size of ONE quilt block is ten inches by ten inches. For Husband’s quilt I made 6 quilt blocks, added sashing and binding. It’s long to be used in a reclining chair.
Cutting for this ONE block as shown on the Left
Cut 3 Green – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″ Cut 3 White – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″ Make Triangles
Cut 4 White – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
Cut 1 White – 3 1/2 x 2 1/2″ Cut 1 White – 4 1/2″ x 10 1/2″
Sew as Shown
You will need FOUR of this block to make a School of Fish!
Happy Friday and here is this weeks quilt block pattern. This quilt block has a finished size of 12″ x 12″. I did cut and lay these quilt fabric colors out, you do you! I like the colors likeness on each side.
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