How to Make Quilt Blocks ⋆ Quiltweb

Need help from a quilter? This page lists free tutorials and how-to information on the most common quilt blocks, including quilting and sewing tips, terms, and techniques for the beginning quilter.

Make A Four-Patch Block

Using a Stripology or June Tailor ruler with free pattern

diagram of a 4-patch quilt block with the seams twirled

How to Twirl the Seams to reduce bulk

Two methods of making a Shaded Four-Patch Quilt Block (Cat’s Cradle)

Make Half-Square-Triangle Units

Using a Traditional Method

Using Magic with free technique sheet

Bias Beauty (4 at once) with free technique sheet

Make 3-Part and Quarter-Square-Triangle Blocks

A traditional quarter-square-triangle QST quilt Block

Using a Traditional Method

Quarter Square Triangle Quilt Block made with 4 triangles

Made with Four Triangles

Three-Part Triangle QST made with squares

Quarter Square Triangle Quilt Blocks made with the Bias Beauty Method

Three-Part Triangle QST made with strips using the Bias Beauty method

Quarter Square Triangle QST Quilt Blocks made with four-patches

Using Four-Patches and the Bias Beauty Method

Free Pattern – 26 Acts of Kindness

Make Half-Rectangle Quilt Blocks

Using Templates with free block pattern

Using The Tri-Recs Ruler

Make Flying Geese Quilt Blocks

Using a Traditional Method

Using the Quilt-in-a-Day Flying Goose Ruler – free table runner pattern

Free Block Pattern – Apple Blossom

Using the Wing Clipper or No Math Ruler

Using the One-Seam Method – Free table runner pattern

Free Block Pattern – Diamond Sawtooth Star

Make Triangle in a Square Quilt Blocks

Using the tri-recs ruler – free block pattern

Using the V-Block ruler from Studio 180 – free mini-quilt pattern

How to Make a Triangle-On-Point Block – free technique sheet

Make Square in a Square Quilt blocks

Adding corners to a center square-in-a-square quilt block

Adding corners to a center – free technique sheet

A square with a dashed diagonal line across it and a rotary cutter positioned to cut along the line—an essential step in How to Make Quilt Blocks.

Cutting a Bias Square

How to Make a Square in a Square Block with-square-corners

Squares on a Square

Templates – Accuquilt, Electric Quilt, full size PDF from Generations (above)

HSTs – free pattern “Fireflies”

Foundation or Paper Piecing – detailed general tutorial, plus a freezer paper tutorial from the Crafty Quilter

Square in a Square Ruler from Creative Grid

Comparing Square-in-a-Square rulers – Studio 180, Creative Grid, Easy Angle

How to make a Snail Trail Block

Strips on a Square – paid pattern “Square Deal”

Make a Drunkards Path Quilt Block

A quilt with red semicircle patterns and green leaf shapes on a white background, draped outdoors over grass and twigs. — Rachel Rossi wrote a blog post with a video on sewing with curves. It’s called How to Sew Perfect Quarter Circle Quilt Blocks and she offers a really pretty pieced curve pattern for free if you sign up for her newsletter.

Two fabric triangles overlap on a textured surface: the top is light pink, and the bottom is navy blue with a pink and white floral pattern. A pin secures them together at the center, demonstrating one of the fundamental steps in How to Make Quilt Blocks. — From LeeAnn Parsons of the **Devoted Quilter** comes a tutorial on sewing individual inner and outer pieces, center matching, generous pinning, sewing and pressing.

A close-up of a sewing machine stitching patterned fabric pieces together, held in place with colorful pins—an essential step in How to Make Quilt Blocks. Measurement markings are visible on the machine’s surface. — **Center Stree Quilts** has a similar tutorial. She suggests the Accuquilt, but if you don’t have one, she offers a downloadable template.

Two paper templates labeled A and B on a green cutting mat, with orange scissors nearby; Template B features a curved cut aligning with Template A. — Here is a paper pieced template from **The Freshly Pieced blog.**

If you are struggling with trimming oversize units, the Quilting Jetgirl has a detailed tutorial that suggest trimming the side opposite the circle. That would be Template B in the picture above.

A person irons a white fabric square with a blue circle pattern featuring small red and white flowers, smoothing it on a black surface—an essential step in how to make quilt blocks. — **Sew Nomadic** shows a clever way of sewing a circle inside a square using freezer paper then cutting it into quarters.

Epida Studios suggests the same thing, but she fuses her circle. Her tutorial is detailed, with videos, and she shows different types of blocks that can be made with this technique.