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Have to Love a Quilt Hug

Cuddle in a Quilt, Is Needed

It’s been a LONG couple of days here and I need my quilt hug that whispers, “Everything’s going to be okay.” It’s all about the moment I grab my quilt and wrap it around me, my brain instantly decides it’s all going to be alright. My quilts do it all the time.

53 Quilt Block Patterns Quilt on Amazon in Print and eBook

It’s quilt magic and let’s be honest, life is always better when you’re under a quilt. It’s the smooth cotton, between my fingers, and the slightly lumpy stitches of my hand quilting. Those layers of fabric and batting are like a personal shield from the chaos of the world.

Now, the whole thing about sharing a quilt?!? I don’t share quilts well…I know…I have a lot of quilts around here and some are just NOT for sharing and that’s it’s all a OKAY ! But, when at one quilt comes out and you know it’s only for share…It’s quilt magic.

Square Perfect is a HUGE Quilt and it’s on Amazon in Print and eBook
and at My Etsy Shop

It’s time to purchase a quilt pattern, make a quilt and do some cuddle up time and let the happiness take over—quilts have got you covered.

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Make a Quilter Happy in Three Ways

And Your Weekly Quilt Block

I have a fourth way to make a Quilter happy,
it’s a Quilt Block Pattern.
My weekly Quilt Block Pattern is Below

Three ways to Make a Quilter Happy !

Set the Mood
Start with good lighting—nothing kills the mood faster than squinting at tiny stitches in a shadowy corner. Add your favorite playlist, audiobook, or true crime podcast (because what’s better than solving mysteries while sewing?). Bonus points if you have a mug of coffee or brew a cup of tea. Suddenly, quilting feels like a cozy retreat instead of just a to-do list item.

Snack Strategically – Reaching a bit here…but?
No, you don’t need crumbs in your fabric, but let’s face it: quilting burns mental energy, and snacks are fuel. Keep a stash of easy-to-eat treats nearby—think chocolate, nuts, or anything that won’t turn your quilt into a grease rag. Pair it with a drink you love, and you’ll feel like you’re at a quilting spa.

Celebrate the Little Wins
Finished a tricky block? Reward yourself! Take a picture, post it online, or do a happy dance. Nobody’s perfect, and your quilting adventures, mistakes and all are part of the story. After all, happy quilters make the best quilts!

My Weekly Quilt Block Pattern for you. Today, let’s all about triangles and squares. . This quilt block has a finished size of eight inches by eight inches. Here are my tutorials,
How to sew squares and how to sew quilt triangles

Cut 1 Blue 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut 1 Red 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Make Triangles

Cut 2 Gray 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut 2 White 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Make Triangles

Cut 2 Blue 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut 2 White 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Make Triangles

Cut 2 White 2 1/2” x 2 1/2”

Cut 8 Green 1 1/2” x 1 12”

Cut 8 Red 1 1/2” x 1 1/2”

Sew as Shown

Beth Ann and as always Thank you for stopping
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Heart Quilt Block Pattern

Sew a Simple Heart Quilt Block

Sewing a heart quilt block for Valentine’s Day for yourself or another.

This classic design is perfect for celebrate using soft pinks, deep reds, and vibrant whites, the heart block comes together with simple piecing triangles and squares, Great for or beginners and seasoned quilters.

A simple quilt block pattern and it’s just in time for Valentine’s Day. My heart quilt block pattern has a finished size of eight inches by eight inches. See all my Weekly Quilt Block Patterns

Cut 4 Red – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″
Cut 4 White – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″
Make into Triangles
How I do My Triangles

Cut 6 Red – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
Lay out and sew as shown

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The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Shop

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in Print and eBooks

February 2025 Quilt Pattern

The Quilt Ladies February 2025 Quilt Pattern

My February Quilt Pattern 2025

Basket quilt blocks in four different styles, great for the beginner quilter and the quilter who have quilted for years. Simple cutting and piecing instructions. Each Basket Quilt Block has a finished size of ten inches and the quilt has a finished size of 42” x 42” making it a perfect lap quilt size or a baby quilt. January 2025 Quilt Pattern here for you too.

How my Quilt Pattern look and how they are presented.

See all my MONTHLY Quilt Patterns

The Quilt Ladies US State Quilt Blocks — My US State Quilt Block Patterns

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Building on a Square Quilt Block

Make a Square Quilt Block

The first quilt block I shared was a simple quilt pattern
and today it’s just about moving squares around a bit with color and using smaller four-patch quilt blocks.
Please don’t overthink cutting squares 1 1/2″, do it the same as other sizes, sew and press as you go.

square quilt block pattenr

This also has a finished size of eight inches by eight inches. With the solids using four-patch quilt blocks. How to sew a quilt square

simple quilt block pattern how to — Last Weeks Quilt Block

Cut 12 Green            1 1/2” x 1 1/2”
Cut 12 Lt. Blue         1 1/2” x 1 1/2”
Cut 2 Lt. Blue            2 1/2” x 2 1/2”
Cut 4 Blue                 2 1/2” x 2 1/2”
Cut 4 White 2 1/2” x 2 1/2”

Beth Ann and as always Thank you for stopping

January 2025 Quilt Pattern

Only Available at My Etsy Shop

My January 2025 Quilt Pattern is a
Patchwork star made with squares and triangles. First border is pieced with squares and outside border is solid.

Quilt Pattern is given in three colors, blue, pink and red. Great for a baby quilt and for a lap quilt for yourself. Finished size of your quilt will be
44” x 44” complete cutting and piecing instructions, 16 printable pages.
ONLY Available here at my Etsy Shop – PDF download, to you in Moments after payment

See ALL 2024 Monthly Quilt Pattern

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Quilt Block Pattern of the Week – The Quilt Ladies

2025 Weekly Quilt Block Pattern

I’m thrilled with my new weekly series:
Quilt Block Pattern of the Week!
I will be trying to post them on Friday. Each quilt block will have a finished size of eight inches by eight inches, 8″ x 8″ and will be from advance to beginner quilt blocks.

Quilt Ladies quilt block of the week — #WeeklyQuiltBlock

Each week, I’ll share a fresh, creative quilt block pattern to inspire your projects and challenge your skills. I draw quilt blocks sitting in doctor offices and at the hospital. Some have been sewn and most have not, so it’s all up to you, don’t overthink anything, it’s fabric, have fun and make my weekly Quilt Blocks.

star quilt block pattern from the quilt ladies — #WeeklyQuiltBlock

Cut 6 Lt. Blue 1 1/2” x 1 1/2”
Cut 4 White 1 1/2” x 1 1/2”

Cut 10 White 1 7/8” x 1 7/8”
Cut these in half to make triangles

Cut 4 Red 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut these in half to make triangles

Cut 2 White 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut these in half to make triangles
Cut 1 Lt. Blue 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut in half to make triangles

Cut 8 Gray 1 1/2” x 1 1/2”
Cut 2 Green 1 1/2” x 1 1/2”
Cut 6 Yellow 1 1/2” x 1 1/2”
Cut 4 Yellow 1 7/8” x 1 7/8”

Cut these in half to make triangles

Sew as shown

Find my Square and Triangle How to
How to make Squares

How to make Triangles

Let’s sew together, one block at a time! Don’t forget to share your creations with the hashtag #WeeklyQuiltBlock—I can’t wait to see your work!

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A Birthday Treat for Me!

Pinwheel Quilt Block Pattern

My Birthday was over this past weekend and thank you to all, I had a fantastic day/weekend ! So, much so I have posting one of my favorite all time posts and it’s quilt block is below too !

This quilt was a gift to my mother from her Great Grandmother. And then a Gift to me from My Mother. Making it my, GREAT-GREAT Grandmother’s Gift to ME ! Well…That’s how I like to look at it. I

never met her and my mom only remembered helping with the peddle sewing machine. I use this quilt and love sleeping under it. It does not go in the washer and now living here in Florida and not having a clothes line it does go it the dryer….Yes… it bothers me too, but…. the colors are still very bright.

The hand quilting on this quilt is WONDERFUL
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How to make the Pin Wheel Quilt Block from my Great-great Grandmother – quilt pattern below for you.

Finished block will be 6″ x 6″

Cutting for ONE Block

Cut 2 Green – 3 7/8″ x 3 7/8″

cut each block from corner to corner

(shown as gray)

Cut 1 Pink 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″

cut corner to corner and then again, corner to corner

(shown as red )

Cut 1 White 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″

cut corner to corner and then again, corner to corner

(shown as white)

Piece 4 blocks together as shown

Sew into rows

Sew rows together

My Great, Great Grandmother's Pin Wheel Quilt Block Pattern

Please remember,

there are other methods of piecing

the quarter triangle, this is how I do it. My quilt tutorial how I do Triangles

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Quilt Basket Block for You to Make

Free Weekly Quilt Block

Let’s add a bit more to a basket quilt block from the one we did last week. This quilt block has triangle handle and base. Nothing says traditional quilt block more than 2 colors. This quilt block has a finished size of eight inches by eight inches. Any two colors will work, anything with white will be perfect.

How I make my triangles tutorial

Cut 4 Purple 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut 4 White 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Make Triangles

Cut 1 Purple 4 7/8” x 4 7/8”
Cut 1 White 4 7/8” x 4 7/8”
Make Triangle – save extra for later

Cut 1 White 2 1/2” x 2 1/2”
Cut 2 White 4 1/2” x 2 1/2”

Sew as shown below

Meet Beth Ann:
A Quilter and an Author who decided to self-publish her quilt books and quilt patterns, SEE her BOOKS on Amazon and PDF download quilt patterns on Etsy

Why 100% Cotton for Quilts

Purchase the best quality cotton fabric you have afford

With the addition of my weekly quilt blocks, I have added some very new quilters. and today I want to talk about quilt fabric

One of the best things about quilting is the Wonderful Fabric’s you get to purchase.
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And with that I have to add,
This is the way I do my fabric, you do you !
Purchasing fabric is fun, please, always buy the best fabric you can afford and what you like. For quilts you will use 100% cotton fabric. Fabric will cost between $6 and $17 per yard. If you are just purchasing for a maybe project, I do mostly cuts 1 to 2 yards. If you have a quilt pattern, follow the recommendations, but as I say in my books, “Please think of purchasing more fabric than needed, as a pattern designer I have no idea how you will cut and use your fabric.” One way to pick fabrics

I recommend for quarter cuts or pre-cut 2 1/2 inch or 5 inch packs. (They go larger but start with these sizes and “I” DO NOT WASH precuts)

Purchased cotton yardage, wash, dry and iron your fabric before starting any project. Please think of purchasing more fabric than needed, a pattern designer has no idea how you will cut and use your fabric. From My Quilt Ladies Site HOW to Pick Fabrics

When talking about fabric it always brings up the conversation of washing fabric. Here is what I do,

I wash and dry all my fabric BEFORE sewing cutting and piecing a quilt. You only have to pull out one finished quilt from the washer and see bleeding to know you must/should wash all fabric.

Cotton fabrics bleeding means, the dyes used on the fabric will become loose when washing. It’s said that it’s common is cottons, but all fabrics can bleed. Dyes will/can stain other fabrics in a prewashing, the biggest problem is the dye transfer after a quilt is finished.

When cotton fabric is made it is stretched on a loom, pulling the fibers straight. A stabilizer is applied to keep fabric straight and that is what you are washing off. Washing allows the fabric to relax and return to a more natural state. A dryer lets the fabric relax or shrink. All cotton fabrics are different you cannot know the amount any fabric will shrink.

Knowing a cotton fabric will not bleed and not shrink is worth a bit of time for the perfect quilt in the end.

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When prewashing quilt fabric, I use my daily machine washer detergent, the same type that will be used when the complete quilt is washed. Same with the dryer, use the setting that will be used when the quilt is completed.

With 100% cotton fabric after washing and drying you will need to clip away all the threads that have twisted. If fabric is wrinkles you can shake it to smooth out more wrinkles, or press the fabric with a dry iron.

It’s a habit for me to wash/dry as soon as I purchase fabric. You will develop YOUR way of caring for your quilt fabrics.

When using/cutting the fabric I will press and starch it BEFORE any cutting and square up the fabric so that all cuts with a rotary cutter are straight. I use what I use for clothing as my starch just plain old Niagara brand, it makes it just a bit stiff and will washed very easily.

All this being said,
“I do not EVER wash contest quilt fabric before sewing, or quilting the quilt.” That is just me, you do YOU !

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PDF download quilt patterns on Etsy

Beth Ann and as always, Thank you for making my dream a reality ! !

It’s been a LONG couple of days here and I need my quilt hug that whispers, “Everything’s going to be okay.” It’s all about the moment I grab my quilt and wrap it around me, my brain instantly decides it’s all going to be alright. My quilts do it all the time.

I have a fourth way to make a Quilter happy, it’s a Quilt Block Pattern. My weekly Quilt Block Pattern is Below

Three ways to Make a Quilter Happy !

Sewing a heart quilt block for Valentine’s Day for yourself or another.

Thank you for supporting my Etsy shop and my Quilt Ladies Book The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Shop

The first quilt block I shared was a simple quilt pattern and today it’s just about moving squares around a bit with color and using smaller four-patch quilt blocks. Please don’t overthink cutting squares 1 1/2″, do it the same as other sizes, sew and press as you go.

My January 2025 Quilt Pattern is a Patchwork star made with squares and triangles. First border is pieced with squares and outside border is solid.

I’m thrilled with my new weekly series: Quilt Block Pattern of the Week! I will be trying to post them on Friday. Each quilt block will have a finished size of eight inches by eight inches, 8″ x 8″ and will be from advance to beginner quilt blocks.