Letter quilt blocks

Learn to use the One Patch Quilt in Electric Quilt 8 as graph paper to design an entire alphabet. And then the process to transfer your design to individual blocks for each letter.

Today I'm going to show you how to make your own set of Alphabet Squares. I made these last year to help Emerson learn her letters. We used them almost every week for all sorts of activities. They are super durable and have held up really well. Here's what you will need: 1-2 yards of s

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A couple of weeks ago, Moda hosted a blog hop called "Spell it with Fabric". I pinned every single alphabet and number and punctuation mark, and you can find it on my Pinterest board here. It was so much fun to choose the fabrics!!! I chose red for "A" because it reminds me of apple. "B" is for blue. "C" is for my cute little grand daughter Charlotte, and me, Cynthia. This fabric is Mary Engelbreit, which makes me think of cherries. I just like the blue and gold together ;) I love this olive…

Photo taken in 1912 from the Lund family in Taos, New Mexico. Arizona's star was the 48th, added in February, 1912. New Mexico was added a month earlier in January. We've been looking at quilts date-inscribed 1912 trying to get an idea of what was happening when Marie Webster began publishing her "New Quilts," modern applique designs. Quilters working in 1912 had many published patterns for inspiration, among them the Ladies' Art Company catalog from St. Louis, which featured a popular…

I hope that you’ve been enjoying Alphabet Soup! I've got an alternate version to the Alphabet Soup Block "I" that I made available as a free bonus block for the book. I'm working on some Alphabet Soup projects of my own this summer. While I was planning them out I found that I wasn't loving the letter "I" as I had designed it for the book. When I saw the "I" on pillows or letter tiles I wanted it to have the baseline and the cap height serif. You can see the new "I" here in the first row…

Alphabet quilt mocked up in Andover fabrics Atomic by Libs Elliott. This pattern uses 8 fat quarters in shades of different colors to create a folded ribbon effect. Ribbon Letters pattern by Patch and Dot.

Welcome to Week 5 of our Spelling Bee Quilt Along! This week, we are featuring the Capital D and lowercase d blocks!