Tumbling Blocks Quilt Tutorial – No Y-Seams!

Can you make a Tumbling Blocks quilt without Y-Seams? Yes, you most certainly can!

I’ve been wanting to make a Tumbling Blocks quilt for awhile now, but the Y-seams (which I prefer to sew by hand) kept putting me off. So I never took on this quilt project and never tried to make a Tumbling Blocks Quilt.
Quilty Box arrived this month and brought me an awesome new cutting ruler. The Sidekick Ruler cuts 60 degree diamonds, triangles, and half triangle shapes.
I played around with the ruler a bit and YAY! We can piece a Tumbling Blocks quilt with NO Y-Seams. Even better, this can be chain pieced which makes the quilt go together in no time.
I sliced and diced and pieced and pressed and created this Tumbling Blocks Sunrise quilt.
Each month I get Quilty Box, a subscription box of fun quilting tools, thread, and fabrics. Rather than stash these new supplies in a drawer, I challenge myself to use up the fabrics in a new quilt.
In just a few days I design a quilt, cut and piece it, and write a free quilt pattern for you to enjoy. It’s a fun challenge and I enjoy pushing myself to work quickly and make a new quilt every month.
Let’s go quilt,
Leah Day
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Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

1 Response

  1. Cynthia Ramgoolam says:

    I enjoy looking at your work ! You make difficult projects look so simple !

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