quilting / Sew With Me

It’s a new year, and that means that it is time for a NEW Quilt-A-Long! The 2025 Sew With Me series is a beginner-friendly sampler quilt video series. Each month I will teach you how to make another beautiful quilt block for our sampler quilt. At the end of our sew-a-long I’ll show you how to put them all together and finish your quilt! Join me back here on the 2nd Thursday of each month, as I teach you how to make this adorable quilt!

Throughout this series, I hope to teach you some new skills, tips, and tricks, and at the end of the series, we will have a fun selection of blocks to sew together into a sampler quilt! I have a special layout for this year’s sew-a-long, and I hope you love it as much as I do!

The blocks will release on the 2nd Thursday of each month. Each block will have a video tutorial and free PDF download. I will be adding the PDF downloads to this blog post as they are released, so make sure to come back here each month to get the new download!

In today’s video, we will be covering supplies as well as sewing the outer border, pieced backing, and sashing strips. I love getting the borders done first, it assures that I can cut my borders from the width of the fabric, and then I can use any leftover fabric for my quilt blocks as well. Plus, it’s nice to have it all done when we are ready to assemble our quilt!

This year we will be doing a special Bow Top Border and super cute pieced backing. If you don’t want to do the pieced backing, you can skip the Bow block and do your backing the normal way. But it’s really cute, and the perfect place to add a label to your quilt too!

YouTube Video Tutorials:

Download the Quilty Patterns Below:

Quilt-a-long Details 

  • Finished Block Size: 12″ x 12″
  • Finished Quilt Size: 50″ x 63″
  • Videos release on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 10am MST
  • Free PDF downloads are included for each block (The full pattern will be available in my shop once all blocks are released. Final Pattern will include patterns for all 12 quilt blocks, special borders, sashing, + finishing options and bonus ideas!)
  • I suggest prepping your fabric with starch or Mary Ellen’s Best Press prior to cutting your pieces.

Fabric Requirements (FQ=18″ x 21″, feel free to use any colors you like!) 

  • Background: 3 yards 
  • Pink: (4) FQs
  • Red: (5) FQs
  • Green: (5) FQs
  • Outer Border: 1-1/4 yard
  • Dark Brown Sashing: 1/4 yard
  • Light Brown Sashing: 1/2 yard
  • Binding (Red): 1/2 yard
  • Backing/Batting: 4-1/4 yards

Supplies:

2025 Stitch With Me

We’re doing a cute cross stitch to go along with our Sew With Me series this year too! I’m going to do a SAL format, so we will be releasing the blocks in the same order as the quilty version. Today, I am releasing the Border section, and next week we’ll start off with block #1. The stitchy blocks will release on the 2nd Thursday of the month as well!

Supplies:

  • Charles Craft 14-Count Aida in Antique White
  • Classic Colorworks floss 1 skein each of: Caroling, Pink Posey, Four Leaf Clover, Grasshopper, Pebble Beach, and Cocoa Bean (DMC Conversion chart is included in the pattern)

Download the Stitchy Patterns Below:

14 Comments

  2. Erica,

    I am loving all the blocks on the 2025 Sew with Me series. I fell in love with block #4 and even in your video, you said that you might make an entire quilt out of that block pattern. So I just finished 12 blocks using block #4 pattern. I made them with a fat quarter bundle I bought at the Houston International Quilt Festival last year and had even bought the background, backing and binding fabric to coordinate. So all 12 blocks are made and I am just curious if there is any way I can get the finishing instructions early? I would love to finish this quilt for a friend. I know your response is going to be that I need to wait until December and, of course, I will — but just thought I would ask.

    I absolutely love how you teach on your tutorials and you have helped me in my quilting journey immensely. Thank you for all you do and for your inspiration.

    Hope you are having a great summer,
    Gina
    From Livingston, TX (Houston area)

    Gina Lenfest
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