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Download this free pattern for an easy one-block modern quilt. It’s great for beginner quilters and seasoned sewists!

Island Breeze is the quilt I designed for Danielle Hartgers’s Zanzibar collection for Blank Quilting. It measures 62″ x 74″ and has 12″ blocks. Although the block looks complex, it is easy to assemble, requiring only half-square triangles. What do you think of those fabrics?

I, for one, am smitten by these prints! Danielle was inspired when she assembled this beautiful fabric collection, with geometric lines invoking tiles and natural elements in neutral tones that will complement any home decor ...

Make this beginner-friendly modern batik quilt using your favorite collection or as a scrap buster! One easy quilt block is all it takes!

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Nature Study is my latest quilt, published in the February 2024 American Patchwork & Quilting issue. It measures 67″ x 82″, and the blocks finish at 6″. I used greens and blues from my batik fabric ‘collection’ – I still have enough fabric to make five quilts in the same palette! The photographer, Adam Albright, always transforms my quilts into works of art when he ...