BOMs Quick Links BOMs Photo Index   |   BOMs By Name   |   BOMs By Size   |                  Block of the Month Some quilt shops and catalogs sell blocks of the month to sell fabric and patterns. The purpose of my block of the month pages are to help you learn some of the basics of piecing. The BOM for November is Jack's Delight Delaware Quilts is headed south! We will be making a Scrappy Happy road trip between Delaware and Texas in the spring of 2009. We would love to visit additional guilds and/or clubs on this adventure. (I will offer greatly reduced travel expenses for any bookings on this trip, the more bookings the lower my travel fees have to be!) For more information, click here. Past Blocks of the Month The sizes listed below are unfinished. 12 1/2 inches unfinished is 12 inches finished (when placed in a quilt) 6 1/2 inches unfinished is 6 inches finished (when placed in a quilt) (Want to find a block by name? Hit Control F) Ann's Star - 12 1/2 and 6 1/2 April Star - 12 1/2 and 6 1/2 ArkansasCrossRoads - 12 1/2 Autumn Leaves - many sizes Balkan Puzzle - 12 1/2 Bear's Paws - 12 1/2 Blockade - 12 1/2 Quickie Bowties - many sizes Three Dimensional Bow Ties - 8 1/2 Broken Dishes - many sizes Card Tricks - 12 1/2 Carrie Nation - 12 1/2 Chevron- 12 1/2 and 6 1/2 Cheyenne 12 1/2 Clay's Choice - 12 1/2 Contrary Wife - 12 1/2 Dandy Quilt Block - 12 1/2 Darting Birds - 12 1/2 Double Z - 12 1/2 Dutchman's Puzzle - 12 1/2   Easy Speedy Four Patch many sizes   Eccentric Star - 3 1/2, 6 1/2, 9 1/2 and 12 1/2   Floating 8 pointed star - 12 1/2 and 6 1/2 Floating Churn Dash - 9 1/2 Flying X - 12 1/2 Friendship Star - Many sizes Scrappy Hearts - many sizes Hidden Star - 12 1/2 Hope Of Hartford - 12 1/2 Hovering Hawks - 12 1/2 HunterStar - 12 1/2 Jack's Delight - 12 1/2 Log Cabin - 12 1/2 Monkey Wrench - 12 1/2 Mosaic - 12 1/2 and 6 1/2 Nancy's Star - 12 1/2 New Album - 12 1/2 Next Door Neighbor - 12 1/2 Nine Patch Variation many sizes No Name Star - 12 1/2 Ohio Star - 12 1/2 and 6 1/2 Ohio Star Variation - 12 1/2 Oh Susannah - 12 1/2 Patience Corners - 12 1/2   Perpetual Motion (or Comet Star) - 12 1/2 and 6 1/2 Pinwheel - 12 1/2 Pinwheel Star- 12 1/2 Ribbon Quilt - 12 1/2 Road to California - 12 1/2 Road to Oklahoma - 12 1/2 Sailing Ship - 12 1/2 Sarah's Choice Sawtooth Star - 12 1/2 Sawtooth Star - 6 1/2 School Girls Puzzle - 12 1/2 16 Patch Sawtooth Star - 12 1/2 Shoofly Block - 12 1/2 Shoofly Variation - 12 1/2 Shooting Star - 12 1/2 and 6 1/2 Sisters Choice - 12 1/2 Spinning Star - 12 1/2 and 6 1/2 Square in a Sq in a Sq - 12 1/2 Stepping Stones - 12 1/2 Twist Block - 12 1/2 Whirlpool - 12 1/2 Yankee Puzzle Variation - 12 1/2 Yankee Puzzle - 12 1/2 Projects 2008 Sampler Quilt Easy Scrappy Stars Row By Row Star Sampler Subcribe to my Yahoo Group DelawareQuilts-QuiltersRetreat for update announcements. Powered by groups.yahoo.com Do you want to convert a pattern to a different size, but don’t know how to do it? This page might help you. Please, these blocks are for personal use only. If you wish to make multiple copies, please ask first. I don’t make any money from these blocks, but I would like credit for making the directions. To my knowledge, all of the blocks shown here are of public domain. I have written the instructions only, and have not designed any of the blocks. Please respect the copyright laws when visiting my site, or any other web site. My copyright restrictions For a more complete list of BOMs, visit The Quilter's Cache From Marcia Hohn The Quilt Bus has over 1600 free quilt block patterns Be sure to stop by The World Wide Quilting Page This site lists hundreds of free quilt patterns. Hancocks Fabric World     Patterns For Relay Here is a page full of patterns I am offering in exchange for donations to the American Cancer Society. clear My favorite clear thread is the SewArt International clear monofilament thread. I like it so much I have decided to sell it here on my web site. This is the only monofilament thread I will use. (Thread is $4.25 per spool, which includes shipping.) Click here to purchase. smoke |Home|Family|Quilts|Blocks|Retreat| Email| Please note… if you send me an email, in order for me to reply to you, you must add quiltersretreat@hotmail.com to your address book. Otherwise your server may deliver my reply to your spam folder, and you will never get it. updated November 11, 2008 6004