From bed quilts to baby quilts, April's issues of Piecing It Together were chock full of some of our best quilt patterns! Whether you missed a few issues or just want to see your favorite patterns from last month, check out our 12 Most Popular Free Quilt Patterns of April 2012.
Quilt blocks are the foundation for most quilt patterns; once you have experience sewing quilting blocks, you have the skills to make a whole quilt top! Try out some of these 23 Fantastic Free Quilt Block Patterns to sharpen your piecework skills.
This Applique Circle Quilt is made by appliqueing circles of colored fabric to white squares and then piecing the circle quilt blocks together to create the quilt top. Part 1 goes into detail about how to applique circles using a sewing machine.
The Arizona Block is a gorgeous and intricate free quilt block pattern using half square triangles. This block features two accent colors against a plain background color. A center square focuses the block in the center on one of the accent colors.
Make your next star quilt pattern with this twinkling star quilt block! The Arkansas Star is a four-pointed star that looks most attractive in two colors or two shades of the same color. For a scrappy look, make all of the pieces with different fabrics.
This Arkansas Traveler Quilt Block is a beautiful block for star quilt patterns. The four-pointed star, pieced from rhombus shapes, is also known as Teddy's Choice, the cowboy star, or the travel star. Make some of these star quilt blocks for your next star quilt!
The Army Star Paper Pieced Block is an intricate free quilt block pattern you can use to make patriotic quilts with an army star quilt pattern. These patriotic quilts make attractive decorations for Independence Day, Memorial Day, or Labor Day.
Unlike many other star quilt blocks, Aunt Addie's Album block has an oversized center square and much smaller points made from quarter-square triangles rather than half-square triangles. Change up your star quilt patterns with this block.
This free quilt block pattern is called Aunt Eliza's Star. The tutorial will show you how to piece star quilt blocks that you can later join together for a star quilt. The traditional quilt blocks made from this tutorial will be 12 inches square.
The Avant Garde Double Disappearing Nine Patch is a really great way to form a magic nine patch quilt. This innovative style teaches you how to make a fractured nine patch quilt block, which looks complicated but is actually incredibly simple!
