Fan block quilts

Use These Clever Blocks To Make A Ferris Wheel Fan Quilt. If you’re looking for a busy fun summer quilt this easy fan block makes up the most dazzling designs. It makes me think of a fun beac…

Mens Ties Kept For Good Memories And Well Used In This Fancy Fans Quilt. Mens ties often have amazing fabric and colors. Fabric scraps are put to good use and some are made into really lovely quilt…

One thing I was thinking as I pulled my fabrics is that I may need to have interchangeable pieces as the months progress. By that I mean, a collection of

The fans are sewn together but now what to do for borders? I'm thinking maybe a small [1.5"] solid blue stop border then the off white...

Create a new quilt design by mixing and matching your favorite 6"-square blocks. These patterns include traditional piecing and appliqué techniques.

Assemble a 6" fan block.

I've recently finished quilting a c.1930s Grandmother's Fan quilt top I found antiquing! Many of the fabrics were likely taken from cloth sacks that held a variety of staple goods, from sugar to flour to animal feed. I wish I would have taken a picture of a certain quilt block before machine quilting it in continuous curves and feathers, because on the muslin fabric background you could barely read “Great West…Denver, Co…Table & Pr…”. So I got on the internet and searched using this cryptic…

Friendship Fan September 13, 1933-Shared Material Adds Sentiment to Pieced Quilt was the title of Nancy Cabot's Chicago Tribune column today. She is talking about the Friendship Fan quilt block. Yippee, another pieced block! The idea behind the Friendship Fan quilt block is to get fabric from your friends to make the blocks. I think that sounds like a lot of fun! Nancy wrote, "you must beg your friends to furnish a little scrap of this or that gingham, or perhaps swap a bit of yours for a…

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Cleopatra’s fan quilt block is a fabulous almost “art nouveau” looking design. Learn the various techniques that lead to successful patchwork blocks.