Make a Quilt Block Pattern using ONLY Squares with Beth Ann

When new to quilting I always say, “It’s only a square.” Start with a quilt block using Squares. Don’t over think it, it’s a square. Here is my how to link for making squares, using freezer paper, I never think purchasing a cutting mat, ruler and rotary cutter in the first thing you need to purchase for quilting. Have a working sewing machine, good sewing thread and the best 100% cotton fabric you can afford. AND ALWAYS ASK AROUND, friends will loan you a sewing machine, most will help with threading it, teaching you to sew a straight line, it can become an adventure

I cut 3 colors of fabric for ONE Nine Patch quilt block you will NEED,

CUT 9 – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ squares How to make squares

Here are the combinations I came up with. It’s only a square and you can make a quilt block.

how to make a nine patch quilt block

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Blue and White Quilt Pattern Day

Meeting EVERY Tuesday to quilt is My Ladies. Doing large projects to small ones, they come together with baskets of fabric, ideas and laughter.“The Ladies” They talked time to time about doing a quilt pattern book and finally it was time to draw out their favorite quilt blocks and share them with all of you.
All the quilt blocks stitched together, a quilt design (finished quilt measures 76″ x 84″ ) and that’s what became “The Ladies” Quilt Pattern Book.

There is one of the Quilt Patterns from the book. The book has 68 quilt blocks, with a finished size of eight inches by eight inches. Here is my tutorial on How “I” make my triangles

Cut 8 Blue – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”

Cut 8 White – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”

Make Triangles

Sew as shown

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Red Four-Patch Quilt Table Topper by The Quilt Ladies

4-Patch Table Topper Pattern for YOU

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Table Topper finished size 29″ x 34″

Cut 80 – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ squares

Piece together to form a 4-patch block

You will have 40 – 2-patch blocks

Open up the 2-patch blocks, press the seam to the

dark fabric side

and add another 2-patch

Matching up the seams, open to check and

make sure before sewing

You will have 20 – 4-Patch blocks

After the 20 – 4-patch blocks are finished,

lay them out as you would like them

making a red four patch quilt table topper

5 down and 4 across

This is the sashing and border fabric, I always lay it out and like it, BEFORE cutting

Cut 49 – 4 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ sashing

Cut 30 1 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ corner blocks

Stack your rows up and move to sewing table, I don’t have a felt wall, so I use my dining

room table to lay things out.

Sew a 4 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ strip to each end and in between

each in the row

Sew 6 rows as shown above, 4- 4 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ strips and 5- 1 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ squares. Sew the rows together

Cut 2 Sashing color – 26 1/2″ x 4 1/2″

Sew to the left and right sides

Make the corners

Cut 4 Dark Color – 4 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

Cut 4 Dark Color – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

Cut 4 Red – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

sew together 1 dark and 1 red,

sew dark 4 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ on

Cut 2 Sashing Color – 21 1/2″ x 4 1/2″

Sew to the top and bottom of the table topper

Finished size is

34″ x 29″

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Happy Father’s Day

Wish you a HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

This is the bow tie quilt which hung in Husband’s office for years

husband's office bow tie quilt by beth ann doing

Machine pieced and hand quilted

Reading my book The Quilt Ladies

Have to love a guy who knows a GOOD Book,

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Fishing

My GREATEST Catch, Love you and let’s just keep getting better

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The Quilt Ladies Book of Quilt Stories and Quilt Patterns

The Quilt Ladies book is NOW on Kindle and NOOK, please take a look. Remember. you don’t have to have a kindle or nook, just download the app for your phone, tablet, pad, etc. etc…..

KINDLE app link

Nook app link

Meet my

Quilt Ladies

Story is Fiction but the quilts are very real. You don’t have to be a Quilter to enjoy The Quilt Ladies – Just be a Reader. All Twelve books in ONE, Fifteen Complete Quilt Patterns too

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The Quilt Ladies book of quilt stories and quilt patterns

In The Quilt Ladies Book Collection five very different women come together. The books take you through learning to quilt, starting a business, moving, daily life and death. Each book continues the story and has Complete Quilt Instructions for the quilt the ladies are making in that book.

Mary Alice Gordon is a wife, mother and a very strong lady. She, with her husband, Samuel,
2 daughter, Hannah and Kimberly move into a new life and discover with change
comes new emotions, ideas and goals.

Emily Brown, welcomes Mary Alice to the area, by introducing her to the “Ladies”
Emily is very educated and the helper of the group.

Teresa Henderson with husband William, 3 children, Molly,
Harry and Matthew. Making a life and raising children is hard and opening a
bu

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siness takes hard work, luck and great friends.

Helen Jones and her husband, Robert understand how to hold on to each other as life
becomes too hard. And, as a basket of cut quilt squares changes everything.

Jenny Art
is married and moves in the area with Pastor Art, and a son, Jeffery. Jenny
becomes her own person, with the “Ladies” in the background helping.

The Quilt Ladies Quilts — The Quilt Ladies Book Eleven Quilt

THE QUILT LADIES BOOK NOW ON KINDLE AND NOOK Twelve Stories and Fifteen Complete Quilt Patterns ALL in ONE Book

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Red, White and Blue Quilt Pattern for Flag Day

This is a quilt block I used YEARS ago to make Son #2’s graduation quilt and quilt pattern is here for YOU !

Cutting for ONE Block

Cut 1 Blue – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

Cut 4 White – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

Cut 2 Black – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″

Cut 2 Blue – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″ Make Triangles

Make into 9-patch

Cut 4 Red – 2 1/2″ x 6 1/2″

Cut 12 White – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

Cut 6 White – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″

Cut 6 Blue – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″Make Triangles

Cut 4 Lt. Blue – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

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Star Victory Quilt Pattern for YOU – Part Two

The first part of my Star Victory quilt pattern if you missed, HERE

This is the part one section of the star quilt pattern. See my quilt pattern shop for all my quilt patterns

Cutting for all sides – is the SIDE piecing, do TWO

Cut 4 Lt. Blue – 10 ½” x 4 ½”

Cut 2 Yellow – 2 ½” x 2 ½”

Cut 4 Green 2 ½” x 2 ½”

Cut 4 Lt. Blue – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”

Cut 4 White – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”

Make triangles

Cut 5 Dk. Blue – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”

Cut 5 White – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”

Make triangles

Cut 6 White – 2 ½” x 2 ½” SEW TO SIDES

Piece the top and bottom

Sew to the top and bottom

Finished quilt block twenty-four inches by twenty-four inches

I hope you have enjoyed my quilt pattern, STAR VICTORY

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Celebrate Today

Celebrate every day

After last week, I had the thought of what really makes me happy on a daily bases, besides my STUFF…. Yes, Husband, the kids, friends, all make me happy. But, those little jewels that just appear that make you smile or content in your own life.

Good Morning from the beach in Florida — Endless Ways to Go Today

Walking in the morning and Husband almost always says, “We are at our Florida church.” The holiness of our bodies moving, the blue sky, the sounds of life starting from the birds to the cars of neighbors and the moments we thank God for another day.

Next my bed, I have a love for a good bed. It’s the sheets, mattress pad, pillows and quilt. Yes, a bit about stuff. Crawling into a clean bed, it’s a simple pleasure to me. The feel of a quilt between my fingers, the softness of it, the warmth and I don’t care how hot it is, I always start with one, it makes it home.

I have always remembered and celebrate days gone by, my calendar on my phone is full of what happened on what day in our lives. I have stepped this up a bit, as I see it, why shouldn’t every day be a wonderful day, and if not, why not a wonderful memory of that day. I hope I can focus my days in the wonder of time and if it has to be memories of the past, so be it.

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Star Victory Quilt Pattern of the Month

Today starts my Star Victory Quilt Pattern. The finished size of the quilt block is twenty-four inches by twenty-four inches ! ! A Star quilt pattern for YOU !

PLEASE remember there are MANY ways to do quilt piecing and here I show how “I” like to do it. You do, YOU ! Follow along and make a quilt block with me.

I will be breaking it done in sections for you

Center of the quilt block

You will do TWO (2) of this quilt block

Cut 6 White – 2 ½” x 2 ½”

Cut 2 Yellow – 2 ½” x 2 ½”

Cut 8 Dk. Blue – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”

Cut 8 White – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”

Make triangles

Cut 2 Blue – 4 ½” x 4 ½”

Piece 2 blocks as shown

You will do TWO (2) of this quilt block

Cut 2 Green – 4 ½” x 4 ½”

Cut 10 White – 2 ½” x 2 ½”

Cut 4 Lt. Blue – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”

Cut 4 White – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”Make triangles

Cut 2 Green– 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”

Cut 2 White – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8” Make triangles

Lay blocks out as shown

Sew into Rows

Sew rows together

Stop back to finish my Star Victory Quilt Pattern

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Three Drawers and a Closet

Three drawers and a closet

Think about it, IF you only could live with all your worldly possessions in three drawers and a closet. What would be the things you would take with you? Or the other question is. What would someone else take for you? Say a daughter or son?

Here is just ONE space I love, a bit of my life, my stuff. This is one small corner of my life. I love my stuff, nothing clean and modern about me.

Since, moving Mom into a skilled nursing home, it’s one of those things I think about all the time. The lack of the need to things, the idea of all my things not meaning anything to me anymore. For her, I did all the moving and cleaning out. I learned the things that were important to me for her to have, had NO meaning to her. That was hardest, the bed quilt, the lap quilt I made. No feelings just, “I don’t want that.” So, I re-made the bed with all their things, I moved quilts in/on and out, so a few photos, hanger clothes, socks, nightgowns/robes, personal hygiene things, some games, her crocheting and three books, went in the drawers and closet. She asked for something the other day I said, “It’s in the drawer Mom.” “Oh, the girls open them I’ve never looked in them.” Did you see my mind blow, since August 2017, you have NEVER opened a drawer.

It’s three drawers and a closet and it’s working. Now the conversation…..what do I want for myself?

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