The electric fan quilt block is made entirely of hourglass units. The arrangement creates a pinwheel in the center. Made with ...

Shadow Play, Godey Design, Square in a Square, May Basket and Nancy’s Spool blocks. Nancy uses these blocks in a sampler quilt.

Shadow Play, Godey Design, Square in a Square, May Basket and Nancy’s Spool blocks. Nancy uses these blocks in a featured sampler quilt.

None of Dione Roberts sampler quilt Santas is a standard-issue, red-suited jelly belly. Woodland Santa, the dominant quilt block, is an Old World character, a bit of a gruff old codger to ...

As a sampler, the quilt is filled with dozens of miniature patterns. No block is alike. “Some of them have as many as 122 pieces making up the block itself,” says Sara Berkovec, curator of ...