The electric fan quilt block is made entirely of hourglass units. The arrangement creates a pinwheel in the center. Made with ...

The Kansas City Star Quilts Sampler: 60+ Blocks from 1928–1961 Barbara Brackman. C&T, $29.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-61745-690-9 ...

Nancy uses these blocks in a sampler quilt featured in the series. Nancy demonstrates how to make no-hassle ½-square triangles using the speediest, most accurate and no-math ways. Among the ½ ...

Shadow Play, Godey Design, Square in a Square, May Basket and Nancy’s Spool blocks. Nancy uses these blocks in a sampler quilt.

None of Dione Roberts sampler quilt Santas is a standard-issue, red-suited jelly belly. Woodland Santa, the dominant quilt block, is an Old World character, a bit of a gruff old codger to ...

Each square of the Diamond Sampler quilt has a pattern that could be its own full-size quilt. As a sampler, the quilt is filled with dozens of miniature patterns. No block is alike. “Some of ...