Birthday Quilt 2024 - Block 34

Open your heart and mind to tiny treasures.

Welcome back to our Quilt Along in celebration of my birthday this year.

We are posting here on our blog every week with 1 new 6" finished quilt block design!

I am sew thankful to all of you that want to join me on this Birthday Quilt Along.

You can start making this quilt with the recommended bundles below or using scraps from your stash. A Fat Quarter Bundle and Fat Eighth Bundle are great starting points.

This would be a perfect time to pull fabrics from your stash and mix and match with our bundles to make this quilt your very own. Another great option, is your beautiful fabrics from our Laundry Basket Quilts Fabric Club stash!

I will be making my blocks using a Cocoa Blue Fat Quarter Bundle and the Birthday Bundle 2024 to create this Birthday quilt! There may be some sprinkles of a few favorites from my blue collections.

This project is available for anyone to join in! It will be 55 blocks in 52 weeks. Every Tuesday we will be making a new block(s), so don't forget to Sign Up for our Newsletters and visit our blog each week to quilt along!

At the end of the year I will be providing a variety of layouts for your beautiful 6" blocks.

Let's get started with our next block!

Birthday Quilt Fabric Requirements

Blocks: Cocoa Blue Fat Quarter Bundle

Background: 2½ yards Border: 2 yards

Binding: 1 yard

I'm sew excited to begin -

let's jump right in!

Note from Edyta: All pictures below show finished size images.

Please make sure you have 1/4" around all your units and blocks. Do not trim your points.

Birthday Block 34

Block Cutting

8-light HSTs cut from 4 squares 2⅜"

4-dark HSTs cut from 2 squares 2⅜"

2-medium HSTs cut from 1 square 2⅜"

1-dark HST cut from 1 square 3⅞"

2-dark HSTs cut from 1 square 2⅜"

1-light HST cut from 1 square 3⅞"

2-light 2" x 3½" rectangles

Note from Edyta: For this project, I'm going to try something different

and press all my seams open if I can.

To make HST Unit A, combine 1 light and 1 dark 2⅜" HST.

To make HST Unit B, combine 1 light and 1 medium 2⅜" HST.

A B

Sew together and press. Make 4 HST Unit A. Make 2 HST Unit B.

A&B HST Unit size: 2" x 2" unfinished

To begin building the basket block, arrange your A and B units with 2 light 2⅜" HSTs.

Sew into rows.

Sew rows together and press.

Add 1 dark 3⅞" HST.

Press.

Unit size: 5" X 5"

Next, sew 1 dark 2⅜" HST and 1 light 2" x 3½" rectangle together.

Make 2.

Sew one by one, to the main block unit.

Complete your block by adding a light 3⅞" HST. Press.

Finished Block Size: 6" x 6"

Press your block and enjoy!

Unfinished Block Size: 6½" x 6½"

Make 1

Join us here every Tuesday for our next Birthday Block!

Download this week's Blog here.

Sew and share your progress with us on social media by using #55birthdayblocks 

Happy Quilting, Edyta