Rectangle block quilt patterns

Easy bricks quilt tutorial by Amy Smart - perfect for using 10" Layer Cake fabric precuts. Beginner friendly and a fast finish.

Celebrate March as National Quilting Month and sew a super-easy quilt, with six fun fabrics, and Nancy Zieman’s I Sew For Fun Two-Piece Quilt Block Tutorial

This week I wanted to share a fun quilt I made recently for a youTuber friend who had a baby in December. I was looking for a fairly easy quilt, but one that is visually interesting. I found a fun...

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Well hello there! I know I've been sharing a lot of single blocks lately and I'm so happy to be able to share a finished quilt today. And there's a bonus - I've got a free PDF pattern to go along with it! This is Simple Bricks - a fat quarter friendly pattern that sews up quickly since there's no tricky piecing or seams that need to match up! The finished quilt measures 63" x 72" and needs just 11 fat quarters and just over a yard of background fabric. The fabric I used for this quilt is…

This tutorial is for the 3 quilts with blocks made up of 2 rectangles. I don't cut rectangles though. I piece strips together. Cut your strips any width you want. I used 2.5" in one quilt, 3" in the next and this one is using 3.5". After piecing 2 strips together, measure the width. That is the size you will cut at. I have had several questions about what size I cut them. It has to be the same measurement as your sewn width or they won't be squares. Place the bottom edge of the first strip…

Please, someone, tell me that this block has a name! I have looked and looked and all I saw for a name for this block is “rectangle square.” Really? Is that what this block is called? We have half-square triangles, but are there no such things as half-square rectangles? Because, that is what this quilt is made of–a ton of half-square rectangles! I am finally getting rid of all of my scraps/stash that I have held onto for too long. This quilt was a fun way to do just that. started this quilt…

Bricks and Square Teen & Child (click here to open the pattern in a new window)