January Block of the Month - Card Trick
Hello Quilters!
Welcome to 2022! I hope you all had an amazing New Years and that the first few days of 2022 have been easy on you!
We are starting a whole new quilt this year for our Block of the Month! There are some fun differences with this quilt, so make sure to get the yardage requirements at the bottom of this post!

The first type of block is an Irish Chain! You will need to make a total of 13 of these blocks for the finished quilt.
You can choose to either make one each month (plus one extra), or make them all at once! The fabric requirements include the yardage for the Irish Chain blocks.
This gives you an idea of what the Irish Chain will look like when you have all your blocks laid out. It makes a chain!

We will also be doing one block of the month – same as last year. There will be a pdf file you can download, or you can find the step by step tutorial here on the blog! The block for January looks like this!

But I chose this block for January because I know a lot of people play card games on New Years Eve!
For this block you will need:

Background Fabric |
Medium Fabric |
Dark Fabric |
Accent #1 Fabric |
Accent #2 Fabric |
(2) 5” squares |
(1) 5” square |
(1) 5” square |
(1) 5” square |
(1) 5” square |
(2) 3 ¾” squares |
(1) 3 ¾” square |
(1) 3 ¾” square |
(1) 3 ¾” square |
(1) 3 ¾” square |

2. Take one of the larger background fabric triangles and one of the larger colored fabric triangles. Place them right sides together and sew a 1/4” seam on the long diagonal edge. Press the seams to the darker fabric. Repeat with all four colored fabrics so you have four finished half square triangle blocks (HSTs). Trim up to 4 1/2” square.


4. Notice at this step you will have one large and small triangle in all the colored fabrics left. We will use these in the layout of the block next.

5. Next, layout the block. It will be more helpful to lay everything out first before you sew the next step.


7. Then add the like colored half square triangles (HSTs) in the corners of the layout. This is where you start to see the “cards” form.



9. The next step is to sew the half triangle-triangles (again is there a better word for this??) to the larger triangle so you have a finished block to work with.


11. Place the blocks back into the layout and make sure everything is still in the correct place.

So if I want to make 3 of same “block of month to create a queen size quilt I need to triple the yardage amt?
This is a great tutorial!! I’m really enjoying this BOM! I’m learning a lot from others! I appreciate your time to teach others! I’m a new quilter, but not new to sewing, and your directions are terrific! (I was a teacher, so I know good directions!) Thank you again!
Sheila
P.S. do you have enough pattern testers?