This block features an X surrounded by patchwork squares. It's one of my favorite blocks I've made. When you put a bunch of them together to make a quilt, it creates a really cool pattern.

All blocks and quilt designs are made with Nancy’s signature streamline quilting techniques. Make a Square Within a Square quilt block; then vary the fabric sizes for creative options.

A second signature quilt features 15 names of Loxa Church members from 1945. The quilt’s blocks were given to the Rev. and Mrs. Nair when they left the church to be made into a full quilt “to ...

The local Quilt Guild, Coastal Quilters of Santa Barbara and Goleta, donates quilts to a program called Fostering Friends.

If you're an avid quilter like me, you're always looking for new quilt patterns — and we found a lot of great ones for summer 2025.