Fan quilt block

Create a new quilt design by mixing and matching your favorite 6"-square blocks. These patterns include traditional piecing and appliqué techniques.

One thing I was thinking as I pulled my fabrics is that I may need to have interchangeable pieces as the months progress. By that I mean, a collection of

Use These Clever Blocks To Make A Ferris Wheel Fan Quilt. If you’re looking for a busy fun summer quilt this easy fan block makes up the most dazzling designs. It makes me think of a fun beac…

Several years ago a co-worker asked me to repair his great-aunt’s Fan Quilt. I fell in love with the beauty of the scrappy fabrics and fans. It’s a simple block but in it you can see th…

The fan pattern is one of my favorites. I've completed two fan quilts and have two others in progress. I like all fans -- smooth, pointy or scalloped. I purchased the fan blades for this quilt on ebay, and they were so clean, all I had to do was trim them a bit to fit my template. I was surprised to

Assemble a 6" fan block.

The Traditional Fan is an elegant quilt block that lets you show off your eye for color and pattern. Download a great quilt block and instructions on how to make it in this article.

I've recently finished quilting a c.1930s Grandmother's Fan quilt top I found antiquing! Many of the fabrics were likely taken from cloth sacks that held a variety of staple goods, from sugar to flour to animal feed. I wish I would have taken a picture of a certain quilt block before machine quilting it in continuous curves and feathers, because on the muslin fabric background you could barely read “Great West…Denver, Co…Table & Pr…”. So I got on the internet and searched using this cryptic…

Friendship Fan September 13, 1933-Shared Material Adds Sentiment to Pieced Quilt was the title of Nancy Cabot's Chicago Tribune column today. She is talking about the Friendship Fan quilt block. Yippee, another pieced block! The idea behind the Friendship Fan quilt block is to get fabric from your friends to make the blocks. I think that sounds like a lot of fun! Nancy wrote, "you must beg your friends to furnish a little scrap of this or that gingham, or perhaps swap a bit of yours for a…

Photos above © Jessica Gamez What a beautiful quilting pattern! Dresden Bloom Quilting & designed by Jordan Fabrics. This quilting pattern/tutorial is available for free... Full Post: Dresden Bloom