I love a tool with many uses, so when I saw the X-Blocks BasiX Ruler, I fell in love! My mind started racing with ideas for easy and unique quilt patterns. (And you know I love easy!) Today we’re working on the Basic X-Block Ruler Quilt. This pattern transforms simple strip sets into gorgeous stars with tons of visual movement, and it couldn’t be easier!
Remember, the X-Block Ruler Quilt is only one of hundreds of ways to use the X-Blocks BasiX Ruler. I see many beautiful X-Block quilts in your future!
Click on the button to watch the tutorial and get everything you need to make your own Basic X-Block Quilt
For many Olympians, it’s all about speed, and the difference between last place and gold can be a matter of mere hundredths of a second! If speed-quilting were an Olympic event, surely the gold medal would go to Jenny and her Super Easy Hourglass quilt. This block can be constructed at lightning speed, and it’s so darn cute!
Click on the button to watch the YouTube video tutorial and get everything you need to make your very Hourglass Quilt, the Super Easy Way!
If you’re a quilter, then you’ve seen a churndash block. It has many names because it has been around forever, but today, we’re putting our own spin on it. Jenny’s new tutorial is the Freestyle Churndash Quilt and it’s just so fun to make!
Here’s what you need to make it. Just some 10″ squares and contrasting background fabric!
Hello, Friends! I’m Megan Pitz from Canoe Ridge Creations and I am so thrilled to be guest blogging over here on the Missouri Star Quilt Company blog today. For me quilting has always been a family tradition — taught by my mother and grandmother, I made my first quilt when I was 12 as a 4-H project. One quilt lead to another, and another, and another (with a few Works In Progress mixed in between) and now fifteen years later it’s become a part of my everyday. I started Canoe Ridge Creations less than five years ago, first as a blog journalling my finishes for family & friends, and it now includes several mini quilting clubs, a pattern line, and my works in several books & magazine publications. Being able to share my passion for quilting & pass it along to others is the best!
Today I’m sharing my version of the MSQC Sunny Skies tutorial & quilt. I love how this pattern is made with two relatively simple components — a 16-patch & chevron block — but when arranged the right way, it gives a more complex design. Fresh, modern, and so fun! Jenny’s video tutorials are always fabulously easy to follow. I love how you can pause & start the videos as you please. It felt like Jenny was just another sewing friend hanging out in my studio, I love it!
Here, you can watch the free tutorial!
The original version includes two borders, but I’m personally not one to use borders in my quilts. So instead I opted to skip the borders and make my quilt a little larger & square.
For my quilt I used one jelly roll of Corey Yoder’s Prairie from Moda, 2 3/4 yards accent fabric (Peacock Bella Solids), and 2 yards background fabric (White Bleached Bella Solid). With just a bit more fabric than the original pattern calls for, I was able to use almost the entire jelly roll and finish with a 64″ x 64″ quilt — perfect throw size!
The Sunny Skies chevron blocks are constructed by placing a background rectangle and accent fabric square together, sewing on the diagonal, trimming the excess corner and pressing. I decided to stitch & trim these “bonus triangles” to 3″ finished (3 1/2″ unfinished) Half Square Triangles and then them into a coordinating baby quilt. You can read more about it right here. That means you can essentially get TWO QUILTS out of one by using this tutorial — double bonus!
Thanks so much to the MSQC crew for letting me share my project with you all today — it’s been so much fun!
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Today’s new tutorial is such a fun block that combines a few basics! It combines a square in a square with 2 snowballed corners and it’s called the Flutterby Quilt! Jenny Doan teaches you how to make it in a short 8 minute tutorial. It features the gorgeous, earthy Melbourne Ocean 2.5″ Strips by Andrea Komninos for Contempo Studios.
Click on the button below to WATCH THE TUTORIAL and find everything you’ll need to get started!
