Wrap yourself in some quilty stars so you’ll dream of the wonders above us! This is a big block quilt that’s perfect for chain stitching! It may look complicated, but if you can sew Half-Square Triangles, you’re good to go!
There are just two blocks in this “Twinkling Stars Quilt Pattern” so feast your eyes on these beauties:
If you’ve been following my blog for very long, I’m pretty sure you’ve seen these before! But the ones that are featured in my “Star Power” Gallery are 12″ square finished and these shown above are 16″ finished. Like I said above, “This is a big block quilt!”
In order for you to download this free pattern, all you need to do is to create a new account (or login to your current account) at QuiltDash.com & click on the link that says “Join the QuiltDash” (no quotes). Once you’ve done that, you just need to search for the images on the shops/websites/blogs who are participating in this month’s Quilt Dash. It’s really quite simple & a fun thing to do. Not to mention you get to look at some lovely quilty fabrics that you may just want to purchase (I promise not to tell anyone)!
“Twinkling Stars Quilt Pattern”
This bold & beautiful & traditionally pieced quilt measures 74″ x 89″ when finished.
I’m a Texan & there’s nothing I like better than making a big quilt with big blocks. That’s just the way I roll! Besides, haven’t you heard the saying? “Everything’s bigger in Texas!” 🙂
Come on over to QuiltDash.com & join me in this fun game! And remember…there’s a little thing known as the “Twinkling Stars Quilt Pattern” that’s yours if you complete the Quilt Dash!!!
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The final table runner for my 2019 “Christmas in July” has been published on my sister-site at BOMquilts.com! And I’m sad 🙁 to see it go. I have had so much fun each year :), designing & making my “Christmas in July” patterns, that I am always left feeling a bit depressed when August rolls around.
This week’s table runner is the most difficult of all, but I have faith that even a beginner can handle making it, especially if you’ve followed along with all of my previous table runner’s!
“Christmas Pine’s Table Runner”
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You’ll find within this pattern, I broke down the quilt block, so that you had a diagram to follow along with. Just like I do here on my blog!
“Christmas Pines Quilt Block Diagram”
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All FIVE (5) of my 2019 “Christmas in July” patterns will remain on my BOMquilts.com website until I either expire or I can no longer keep up with my site. Don’t think ya’ll have to worry about either one of those things happening anytime soon 🙂 so let’s just say that the patterns will be there whenever you’re ready for them. But my best suggestion is to print them out as soon as is reasonably possible so that you have them when you are ready to make them!
If you’re looking to make yourself something larger than a table runner, check out my “Christmas Pine’s Table Runner” page at BOMquilts.com & you’ll see a number of different options to make from just this single table runner and/or quilt block. I’m pretty sure that ya’ll will like what you see 🙂 !
If you haven’t been following along with my “Christmas in July” project, on my sister-site at BOMquilts.com, then you’re missing out on some great table runner (and more) free patterns!
By now, I’ve posted the following:
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And just look at what you can make with some of these table runners:
There’s only one more pattern left, and that’ll be published on July 30, 2019 & then my 2019 “Christmas in July” project will be completed! But don’t you worry your pretty little head about it! As long as I am able to keep up with publishing free patterns, both this blog and my BOMquilts.com website will remain intact (as well as all of the links associated with them), and you’ll be able to download the *free* patterns for however long you’d like to wait on them. But don’t wait too long! 🙂
Please remember that anything you make from my projects and/or patterns is for “Personal Use Only” and that is one of my steadfast rules!
Ah, summers! Picnics, family, cookouts. Getting together at the water’s edge to camp out & run your sailboats. The paper kind or the real ones! 🙂 That’s what summers are all about!
For the July Quilt Dash, the free pattern that’s available to members who complete the Quilt Dash, this is what the pattern looks like:
Sailing Away Quilt
A pieced quilt pattern
Size 54 3/4” W x 78 1/4” H
Sailing Away makes a cute quilt for a boy or for an adult sailor. Constructed with pieced sailboat blocks, this pattern is easy to adjust to make it larger or smaller. You can also use your scraps to make it scrappy looking.
Isn’t it just too cute!?! The size of the quilt blocks are
10″ square finished &
10 1/2″ square unfinished.
If you’re already a member of Quilt Dash then all you need to do is to click on the link that says: “Join the QuiltDash” (no quotes).
If you’re not a member then it’s high time you become one, don’t you think? Even if it’s just for the free pattern! Becoming a member is really quite simple as long as you follow the instructions. Just head on over to Quilt Dash & sign up to become a member & then “Join the QuiltDash” (no quotes) for the July “Sailing Away” game!
Just in case you haven’t heard and/or read about it, on my sister site (BOMquilts.com) I’m having my annual “Christmas in July” quilt program & I think you’re going to LOVE ♥ what I have in store for you! There will be five different & original table runner patterns posted, once a week (on Tuesday’s) throughout the month of July!
The first table runner has been revealed and here’s what it looks like:
This year it’s all about table runners. But don’t let the word “runners” get you to thinking that you can *only* make a table runner out of each of these projects 🙂 . Oh no, don’t go thinking that! Here’s just a little sneak peek at what you can do with the table runner pattern shown above…
If you just make four “Roman Squares Quilt Blocks” (instead of the table runner) you’ll end up with a 36″ square Table Topper.
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If you make six “Roman Squares Table Runners”, you’ll end up with a foot warmer for a bed & the size would be 18″ x 54″.
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See what I mean? And the list goes on and on, five different table runners & innumerable number’s of quilty projects that you can make from just those table runner free patterns!
What are you waiting for? Jump on over to my sister site & download the “Roman Squares Table Runner” free pattern. And then mark up your calendar, so you don’t miss a single pattern that’s due to be posted every Tuesday throughout July, 2019!
Flying Stars Quilt Block
Cutting Requirements for 12″ finished block (scant 1/4″ seam allowance):
Flying Stars Quilt Block Diagram
Flying Stars Quilt
If you make TWELVE (12) “Flying Stars Quilt Blocks,” you will end up with the quilt top pictured above. The size will be 36″ x 48″ finished, 36 1/2″ x 48 1/2″ unfinished.
Flying Stars Variation Quilt Block
Cutting Requirements for 12″ finished block (scant 1/4″ seam allowance):
Flying Stars Variation Quilt Block Diagram
Flying Stars Variation Quilt
If you make TWELVE (12) “Flying Stars Variation Quilt Blocks,” you will end up with the quilt top pictured above. The size will be 36″ x 48″ finished, 36 1/2″ x 48 1/2″ unfinished.
This month’s Quilt Dash features a free pattern that is all about Ladybugs!
Did you know that the spot’s on the backs of ladybugs are defense mechanisms to avoid predators? The spot’s come in different shapes & numbers.
Amazing factoid & amazing little critters!
This pieced & appliquéd quilt measures 52” x 67” when finished.
The blocks are 12” finished and 12 1/2” unfinished.
Just look for the Quilt Dash image on the right sidebar of this site —–>>> See it over there?
Go ahead and click on it! Or click on this link here: Quilt Dash
If you’re already a member then all you need to do is to “Join this Quilt Dash” from your account.
If you’re not a member, please join us, so that you can earn this fun & critter-friendly & totally free “Miss Ladybug” quilt pattern!
Need more incentive? How about a sneak peek at one of the quilt blocks in the “Miss Ladybug” Quilt Pattern”?
Four fabric colors. That’s all you need to make each quilt block. Isn’t it amazing how easy it is to create a quilt block out of sew few fabric colors? Gotta love it! 🙂
“Celebrate” Free Patriotic Quilt Pattern designed by Jo Morton from Andover Fabrics
“Fireworks” Free Patriotic Quilt Pattern designed by Renée Nanneman from Andover Fabrics
“Celebrate” Free Patriotic Quilt Pattern designed by Jo Morton from Andover Fabrics
“Reverie” Free Patriotic Quilt Pattern designed by Tiff any Hayes from Andover Fabrics
“Salute” Free Patriotic Quilt Pattern designed by Janet Houts from Andover Fabrics
“Harry Loves Alice” 2019 Block of the Month Quilt. An Original Design by
TK Harrison, Owner of BOMquilts.com
I have had SO MUCH FUN making this quilt! 🙂 If you’re not making it, I hope you’re at least downloading and/or printing the patterns, so that you can make them sooner than later!
This block was revealed on May 20, 2019 and it’s a really great lesson in making more half-square triangles (HST). This whole quilt is full of HST so if you’re not so good at making them beforehand, you should become quite accomplished, by the time you’re finished with “Harry Loves Alice”. If you’re already an accomplished HST maker then here’s your chance to perfect your HST craft!
Please enjoy the free patterns at BOMquilts.com! They’re never removed from my sister-site unless the links no longer work. There’s a whole lot of free patterns on that website just waiting for you to find! 🙂
Do you ever find yourself, just sitting at your computer, with nothing to do but surfing the web? After a while, you take a break and then ask yourself, “What did I actually accomplish today?”
Let me offer you something to do with those times, when you feel like you want to be online, and you also want to know that you’ve accomplished something! Head on over to Quilt Dash and sign up as a member and start surfing some quilt shops & quilt related websites. I mean, really! How much more fun can a quilter get than to let their fingers do some shopping at online quilt shops? Or finding free patterns on quilt related websites?
If you complete May’s Quilt Dash, you will earn this beautiful “Blooms All Around Quilt Pattern”:
What are you waiting for? Head on over to Quilt Dash and sign up for a member’s account and surf the quilt world, so when you get up from your computer, you can pat yourself on the back because you actually *did* accomplish something! Woo Hoo!
The Good Time Quilters of Blind Bay have one more session before they take a break for the summer. I’m not sure why they take a break for the summer, though? Wouldn’t that be a prime time for getting together to sew, have lunch & gripe about everything under the sun? Not to mention that the snowbirds will have returned so that you’d have a full group instead of just a handful of quilter’s around the table? Of course, it’s not up to me. The bottom line is that they’re making one of my free BOM quilts from my sister-site BOMquilts.com.
Have you ever wondered where Sorrento, British Columbia, Canada is? I had no clue where it was, not until I consulted with Google Maps! Take a look at where they’re located & then you’ll understand why I put “Melting” in the title of the blog post (Brrr! 🙂 ):
If you’ve missed my previous blog posts regarding the Good Time Quilters of Blind Bay, you can find them here and here.
For this month’s installment, my picture treat’s come from six separate quilter’s, three quilt blocks that they’ve made thus far. Feast your eyes on these photo’s from each of them:
Since they only have one more session to go, I’m wondering how long it’ll take them to finish my, “Cinnamon-teen Chocolate Figs & Roses” BOM? Guess we’ll all have to wait and see!
The April Quilt Dash is called “Framed Flowers” for a reason! Take a look at this gorgeous quilt!
Such a delicate garden of flower’s set amongst a crisp white background. The perfect space to showcase your quilting skills (or someone else’s longarm quilting skills) with bold and bright frames around everything!
This pieced & appliquéd quilt measures 70” square when finished.
The blocks are 10” finished and 10 1/2” unfinished.
All you need to do is to login to your Quilt Dash member’s area and click on the link that says “Join the QuiltDash” (no quotes). If you don’t already have a member’s account, not to worry! Go to https://QuiltDash.com and follow the instructions to set up a member’s account. It is super easy to join us! And who knows? You just might win a prize once the April (or any other month’s) Quilt Dash finishes!
“Magic Pixie Quilt” Free Pattern designed by Marsha Moore from Michael Miller
“Hipster Kitties” Free Pattern designed by Heidi Pridemore from Michael Miller Fabrics
“Wise Owl Collage” Free Pattern designed by Marinda Stewart
“Twinkle Fairies Quilt” Free Pattern designed by Marsha Evans Moore from Michael Miller Fabrics
“Trucks, Cars & Planes” Free Pattern designed by Marinda Stewart from Michael Miller Fabrics
I sure hope you’re following along and making my “Harry Loves Alice” 2019 block of the month (BOM) quilt from my sister site, BOMquilts.com!
It’s a great lesson in half-square triangles (HST’s) ! Whether you’re a beginning quilter, wanting to learn how to get more experience in piecing HST’s, this quilt is the perfect way to brush up on your skills. If you’re a more advanced quilter, there’s nothing easier than HST’s to whip up quickly and painlessly, so this quilt will go together rather quickly for you!
This is one of *my* favorite quilt blocks to make, too! 🙂 Especially with all of the different fabrics that come in the “Harry Loves Alice” fat quarter bundle from Abbi May’s Quilt Shop. Just look at the way the stars & flowers and blues & navy play off of each other! With that punch from the creamy, dreamy stars fabric thrown in to break up the tonals of the combination of fabrics. Makes my quilty heart just sing for joy!!!
It’s not to late to get started on your own “Harry Loves Alice” BOM quilt! Come on, you know you’re just itching to add a quick quilt block to your monthly agenda, I can tell you are waiting for just that! 🙂 Would love to have you join me in making this adorable lap quilt that you can call all your own!
They sure may be, if you’re a farmer. Because farmer’s need bees to pollinate their crops. But they don’t have to be if you’re a quilter! 🙂
If you’re a member of Quilt Dash, then all you have to do is login & join us to participate in the March 2019 Quilt Dash. If you’re not a member, click on the image below or the one on the right sidebar to create an account & then join us! We’d *love* to have you come play with us!
If you finish finding the final images on all of the participating Quilt Shops 7 websites, you just might find yourself with a new quilt pattern to go along with the…oh…let’s see….200 or so others that you have?!! 🙂
This month’s Quilt Dash game is called “Basket Case” because let’s face it, some days you feel like a basket case, and some days you don’t!
If you aren’t a member of Quilt Dash, you can sign up here. Or click on the button below.
If you are a member, all you have to do is login to your account and click on the link that says “Join the QuiltDash”. You could also click the image above to gain access to your account.
If you participate in the February Quilt Dash, and find the “You Found it Image” on all of the participating quilt shops and quilt related websites, this is the free downloadable pattern you will earn:
Now tell me, who wouldn’t want THAT beautiful free pattern in their quilt book? The blocks are 15″ finished and 15 1/2″ unfinished. The finished quilt is 60″ square. It’s the perfect quilt to wrap around your shoulders when you’re a basket case and when you’re not!
Again, whether you’re a member or not, click on the button above, then take it from there! Hope to see you participate in this month’s “Basket Case” Quilt Dash!
“Tulip Quilt” Free Pattern designed by Carolyn from All Spice Abounds
“Basket of Scraps Basket Quilt” Free Pattern designed by Judie Rothermel from Marcus Fabrics
“Fast Forward” Free Pattern designed by Victoria Findlay Wolfe from Marcus Fabrics
“Gracie’s Garden” Free Pattern designed by Kate Colleran from Marcus Fabrics
“Revved Up Retro” Free Pattern designed by Sarah Maxwell of Designs by Sara J from Marcus Fabrics
The first installment of “Harry Loves Alice” was posted this week!
“Harry Loves Alice” 2019 Block of the Month Quilt. An Original Design by
TK Harrison, Owner of BOMquilts.com
Come sew some fun with us throughout 2019 with another adorable fabric collection that brings out the best in quilty love!
I hope you’ll be joining me in making this lovely, eye-candy lap quilt! It consists of 11 installments, including the fabric requirements, nine quilt blocks and the finishing instructions.
It’s sponsored by the bestest woman 🤗 with the biggest heart ❤️ that I’ve met over the years. OH, did I forget to mention that she happens to have an online quilt shop, and a brick & mortar one too? 😳
Linda has been sponsoring my block of the month quilts (along with many other quilts and quilt projects) since 2006!!! ☺️
In fact, I helped Linda launch her first online website. There’s a reason my kids called me the “Quilt Designing Computer Geek!” Prior to that, she was selling her quilt fabric on eBay. For the first year, she continued to sell her fabric on eBay, as well as on her new Abbimays.com website. By the end of that first year, she was able to transition all of her eBay customers to her new website and close down her eBay account. Within five years, she’d outgrown the shopping cart that I’d set up for her so she’s since moved on to bigger and better. But she’s continued to send me luscious, luxurious, eye-candy quilt fabric. Oh me, oh my, do I love what she’s done in filling up my baskets in my quilt studio! ☺️
When I first laid my eyes on this eye candy fabric, the first thing that came to my mind was the movie Harry Loves Sally. Then when I got my hot little quilter’s fingers on the fabric, my design just materialized from out of nowhere. Well it came from somewhere, but I let the fabric do the talking for me and the quilt image shown above is what I came up with.
Abbi May’s Fabric Shop has been sponsoring my BOM quilts, and many other quilts that I design, since 2006. Please show Linda some love by purchasing the “Harry Loves Alice” quilt kit from her.
This is the new (and did I mention free?) 2019 block of the month (BOM) quilt for my sister-site, BOMquilts.com. The fabrics are bold and bright, fun and festive and even a little bit romantic, too! It’s an 11-part BOM quilt with one block pattern instruction revealed on the 20th of each month. If you follow along each month, you will have a quilt finished by Christmas next year! Woo Hoo!
The fabric requirements will be posted on January 20, 2019. There are nine blocks that compromise the quilt top, then the finishing instructions. Goodness, I don’t need to type all of this out! Head on over to my sister-site and read it for yourself. Or better yet, if you haven’t ‘liked’ us on Facebook yet, fell free to do so as I always post there when I update the patterns.
PS: I can’t guarantee that you’ll have the same…ummm…reaction that Meg Ryan did in the diner, but I can’t promise you…won’t…either!
Remember the Good Time Quilters of Blind Bay (GTQ of Blind Bay)? They’re sewing my 2006 BOM “Cinnamon-teen Chocolate Figs & Roses” quilt from my sister site, BOMquilts.com!
They are now three months into making their quilt blocks and, my oh my, I think they’re having way too much fun! Is that a thing? Having too much fun? Naw, not for quilters, anyway! 🙂
Here are some photos of the quilt blocks that Mandy S. sent to me of her own quilt blocks. She is making them from a batik layer cake that she had in her stash:
The photo below is of some of the members of the GTQ of Blind Bay with three month’s worth of their “Cinnamon-teen Chocolate Figs & Roses” quilt blocks:
I wonder, though, whatever are the GTQ of Blind Bay going to do for space when they continue adding quilt blocks to that stage? I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to seeing how the photo (and quilts) evolve!
Star of Bethlehem Quilt Block
Cutting Requirements for 12″ finished block (precise 1/4″ seam allowance):
Star of Bethlehem Quilt Block Diagram
Star of Bethlehem Quilt
If you make TWELVE (12) “star of Bethlehem Quilt Blocks,” you will end up with the quilt top pictured above. The size will be 36″ x 48″ finished, 36 1/2″ x 48 1/2″ unfinished.
Cookies & Milk Quilt Block
Cutting Requirements for 12″ finished block (precise 1/4″ seam allowance):
Cookies & Milk Quilt Block Diagram
Cookies & Milk Quilt
If you make TWELVE (12) “Cookies & Milk Quilt Blocks,” you will end up with the quilt top pictured above. The size will be 36″ x 48″ finished, 36 1/2″ x 48 1/2″ unfinished.
Christmas Pine Quilt Block
Cutting Requirements for 12″ finished block (precise 1/4″ seam allowance):
Christmas Pine Quilt Block Diagram
Christmas Pine Quilt
If you make TWELVE (12) “Christmas Pine Quilt Blocks,” you will end up with the quilt top pictured above. The size will be 36″ x 48″ finished, 36 1/2″ x 48 1/2″ unfinished.
Arching Tree Quilt Block
Cutting Requirements for 12″ finished block (precise 1/4″ seam allowance):
Arching Tree Quilt Block Diagram
Arching Tree Quilt
If you make TWELVE (12) “Arching Tree Quilt Blocks,” you will end up with the quilt top pictured above. The size will be 36″ x 48″ finished, 36 1/2″ x 48 1/2″ unfinished.
Patch Blossom Quilt Block
Cutting Requirements for 12″ finished block (precise 1/4″ seam allowance):
Patch Blossom Quilt Block Diagram
Patch Blossom Quilt
If you make TWELVE (12) “Patch Blossom Quilt Blocks,” you will end up with the quilt top pictured above. The size will be 36″ x 48″ finished, 36 1/2″ x 48 1/2″ unfinished.
Grandmother’s Cross Quilt Block
Cutting Requirements for 12″ finished block (precise 1/4″ seam allowance):
Grandmother’s Cross Quilt Block Diagram
Grandmother’s Cross Quilt
If you make TWELVE (12) “Grandmother’s Cross Quilt Blocks,” you will end up with the quilt top pictured above. The size will be 36″ x 48″ finished, 36 1/2″ x 48 1/2″ unfinished.
“Home Harvest Quilt” Free Quilt Pattern designed by Rossie Hutchinson from Birch Fabrics
“Retro Plaid Quilt” Free Quilt Pattern designed by Suzy Williams from Suzy Quilts! brought to you by Birch Fabrics
“Sea Squared Quilt” Free Quilt Pattern designed by Belen Sabi from Birch Fabrics
“Through the Looking Glass” Free Quilt Pattern designed by Suzy Quilts from Birch Fabrics
“Fall Fleeting Warrior Pattern” Free Quilt Pattern designed by Suzy Quilts from Suzy Quilts! brought to you by Birch Fabrics
“Roman Squares Table Runner”
“Ornament’s Table Runner
“Snowball Table Runner”
“Ornament’s Bed Warmer
“Poinsettia Table Topper”
“Fast Four Patch Quilt Tutorial” Free Easy to Sew Quilt Pattern designed by Amy Smart from Diary of a Quilter
