My Favorite Quilt Block ~ My Day!

My Favorite Block is now My Favorite Pillow!

No surprise.

My favorite quilt block is the one in my blog button.
and the image that appears when I leave a comment on your blogger. 

It is 

Spring Posies @ AZ Patch BOM

This has been a favorite for many years.

This was the March 2008 free Block of the month pattern at

All the AZ Patch Free BOM Archives May Be Found Here

I chose this block for my first Round Robin Center Block in 2009.

Here is my Round Robin 2009

taken soon after it came home.

I did not start my blog until the end of 2009

so I do not have many photos of the original block and the borders.

Ten years later, this is still a UFO.

I really need to dig this top out of my closet
and move it up the quilting queue
and get it quilted.
I think I wanted to add a plain border of the white flowers on green
that is on the corners of my center block.
I hope I stashed this fabric away with the top.
Time will tell.

For this hop I sewed a new version on this block in some of my favorite fabrics.

This Spring Posies block pattern requires sewing a partial seam for the center.

This is easy to do.
All you need to do is start your first seam part way along the seam line
leaving a small flap open
This partial seam will be closed when you sew on the last side of the center.

Here is what sewing the fourth side on looks like on the sewing machine.
You can see the open flap at the top as I start the sewing on the fourth section.
which is aligned to top edge.

Then I closed the open seam on the first section.

Here are good instructions for sewing partial seams for the Bright Hope Block
From The Spruce Crafts

For my newest version of this block, I used fabrics from my much loved stash of

Prairie Fabrics by Corey Yoder

I am intending this quilt to be a companion to the quilt along quilt
I plan to start later this month ...



My Sunday Best Sampler Quilt Along Plans Here

Here is the back of my new pillow.

I used two fabrics from my stash of prairie fabrics and my snap pliers.
I love to add these plastic snaps to secure the closure on
the  envelope back for my pillows.
The Babyville Boutique snap pliers and snaps, made by Dritz,
makes this closure very easy to do.

To make this into an 18" pillow, I added
3" strips of my white print background fabric
to the sides of my Spring Posies Block.
Then I added four more triangle  corners of the lovely gray flower print.



Then I put a piece of cotton batting on the back of my pillow top
and added straight line quilting Here

Then I sandwiched my front and back and finished my pillow
by binding with my favorite Two Color Flanged Machine Binding

Please visit all my quilty friends today to see their favorite blocks ...

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Thanks, Carla @ Creatin' in the Sticks, for hosting this blog hop!

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