Laurel Ridge is the 2025 Block of the Month quilt designed by Lynn Wilder exclusively for The Quilt Show. Star Members have FREE access to the patterns starting January 1, 2025. Made in two colorways, the complete patterns are excellent. You will love making this quilt. Lynn supports the pattern instructions with Videos too.
Month 11 brings us to the rest of the block piecing. There are two parts to this month's pattern: the CENTER BLOCK and the remaining 20 FOUR PATCH IN A STAR BLOCKS. The pattens have now moved to PAGE 2 in the LAUREL RIDGE 2025 BOM Patterns listing, find them there.
The pattern instructions for the CENTER BLOCK are easy to follow. They are pages 1-9 in Month 11. There are a few new techniques and some old favorites. Here are the centers, each is 20" finished, 20.5" with seam allowance:
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| Granddaughter's SPRING |
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| Grandmother's AUTUMN |
My center is completely different so I did not make it according to the pattern. I also added some additional fabrics to my quilt. As long as the fabrics look like they "belong" in the quilt, they are fine:
In addition to the CENTER BLOCK, there are 20 more FOUR PATCH IN A STAR Blocks to make. We have done these twice before this year. They are the last 4 pages in the pattern.
Find my previous posts about them here:
MONTH 1MONTH 7 I discuss my cutting changes for the Star Points that allow me to quickly and accurately draw the lines on the back of the small squares.
You will find these easy to do at this point. Here is the Autumn version:
Once you have the CENTER BLOCK and FOUR PATCH IN A STAR blocks done, you are ready to assemble the quilt. That is MONTH 12, being released November 1, 2025.
It's time for my annual REMINDER: all the patterns for LAUREL RIDGE, both colorways, are ONLY AVAILABLE FREE TO STAR MEMBERS until December 31, 2025. After that date, all rights to the patterns return to the designer. No one on The Quilt Show, including Star Members, can give any of these patterns to anyone after the end of this year. That is copyright violation. We respect and protect our designers so we can continue to provide these valuable quilt projects FREE TO OUR MEMBERS. Any patterns you are missing you will have to buy from the designer.
If you haven't saved all the patterns, do it now. If you haven't started, but think you might "someday", save them now. There will be an easy link available soon to save all of the patterns at once. The GOOD NEWS is my blogs remain available free as always, with no ads, pop-ups or anything for sale. Just me sharing what I know.
If you are not currently a STAR MEMBER, JOIN any time before December 31, 2025 and you will have full access to ALL the LAUREL RIDGE patterns as well as the INTRODUCTION to the 2026 BOM--it's so good!
There are so many good lessons in this quilt, you may find yourself returning to them over time as you work on other projects. Each new skill you learn adds to your "toolbox" of magic tricks as a quiltmaker.
Let's quilt,
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