Round 4 Moda Block Heads, Block 26 (My Block!)

Welcome to week 26 and my block design for this round of Moda Block Heads.

For my block, I designed a fun little “Postage Stamp” block.  This isn’t typically what we think of when we think of a Postage Stamp quilt in quilting.  I bet most of you would automatically think of something like this:

This was a Postage Stamp quilt I made when I first began quilting…those are all 1″ squares (you can see the quarter for scale).  The idea of an actual Postage Stamp block tickled me (I love a good play on words) so here we have it.  You can download the Postage Stamp block pattern below.

Click here for the Postage Stamp quilt block pattern.

I mentioned last week that if you have a fabric that you’d like to fussy cut this would be a great block for that.  For my block above, I fussy cut a little bit of the large floral fabric from Cozy Up.

I had fun yesterday playing around with a little 4 block Christmas version of this quilt using the Merry Making line of fabric by Gingiber.

The panel fabrics in my digital image are not quite to scale but based on the measurements listed for the small motifs in the Merry Making panel, you should be able to make this little mini quilt by adding borders to the panel motif to bring them to 5 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ and then using them as the center of the 9″ Postage Stamp Block.  I added 1″ sashing and a 1″ border which makes this little mini quilt 21″ square.  You can easily see there a so many possibilities with this quilt block!

I also think it would be so lovely to highlight a favorite fabric collection.  This is Joanna’s (Fig Tree Quilts) upcoming Cinnamon & Cream line of fabric and I think it would be stunning!

I just wanted to give you some ideas of how you might use this block…think I spy quilts, focal fabrics etc.  Even framing out individual quilt blocks would be adorable!

I hope you have fun sewing up your Postage Stamp block.  We have just a few more blocks and Round 4 of Moda Block Heads will be a wrap.  In case you missed my setting plan for my blocks, you can find it here.

And, if you missed my free Granny’s Stars quilt pattern I shared yesterday:

Be sure to grab your free pattern here!  It uses Buttercup & Slate fabrics which have just started shipping to quilt shops.

Have a wonderful Wednesday! Corey

Block 1: Lynn Hagmeier of Kansas Troubles Quilters (March 23, 2022) Square Wheel Block

Block 2: Jenelle Kent of Pieces of Pieces to Treasure (March 30, 2022) Cooee Block

Block 3: Laurie Simpson of Minick & Simpson (April 6, 2022) Kouign Amann Block

Block 4: Anne Sutton of Bunny Hill Designs (April 13, 2022) Spinner

Block 5: Barbara Groves of Me & My Sister Designs (April 20, 2022) Two of Five

Block 6: Linzee Kull McCray (April 27, 2022) Spinning Into Spring

Block 7: Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings (May 4, 2022) Game Board

Block 8: Kate Spain (May 11, 2022) Wild Geese

Block 9: Brigitte Heitland of Zen Chic (May 18, 2022) Cross my Mind

Block 10: Chelsi Stratton (May 25, 2022) Autumnal

Block 11: Jackie MacDonald of Sweetfire Road (June 1, 2022) Moda Block-Berry

Block 12: Deb Strain (June 8, 2022) Friendship Star

Block 13: Debbie Maddy of Tiori Designs (June 15, 2022)  Evening Delight

Block 14: Jan Patek (June 22, 2022) Bird on a Wire or alternate block Sharply Dressed

Block 15: Crystal Manning (June 29, 2022) Highland Plaid

Block 16: Tammy Vonderschmitt of Moda Fabrics (July 6, 2022) Indiana Puzzle

Block 17: Camille Roskelley/Thimbleblossoms (July 13, 2022) Shoreline

Block 18: Betsy Chutchian (July 20, 2022) Crowning Glory

Block 19: Robin Pickens (July 27, 2022) Clover

Block 20: Stacy Iest Hsu (August 3, 2022) Stop Go

Block 21: Janet Clare (August 10, 2022) Shiny Bauble

Block 22: Sherri McConnell (August 17, 2022) Star Patch

Block 23: Brenda Riddle (August 24, 2022) Gentleman’s Fancy

Block 24: Vanessa Christenson (August 31, 2022) Outtakes

Block 25: Vanessa Goertzen (September 7, 2022) Heart

Block 26: Corey Yoder of Coriander Quilts (September 14, 2022) Postage Stamp

Block 27: Michelle White of Moda Fabrics (September 21, 2022)

Block 28: Joanna Figueroa of Fig Tree & Co. (September 28, 2022)