Missouri Breaks Quilt Pattern: 6 Sizes – Beginner Friendly Instructions

New Pattern Alert!
The Missouri Breaks Quilt Pattern is a beginner friendly quilt pattern with detailed instructions and diagrams. You have a choice of 6 different sizes each time you make it! A baby quilt (the 3 yard quilt version), a large throw quilt (the 6 yard quilt version), and a queen size quilt made from yardage or a crib quilt, a throw quilt, or a queen quilt made from layer cakes (10″ square fabric packs) and yardage for the background fabric. If you cut 10″ square with your leftovers, this is a good stash buster too. Because of the size of the blocks and the pressing instructions, this is a wonderful quilt to make with your favorite cozy flannels too.

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Here’s my plan for a flannel – well actually the black will be a piece of corduroy remnant from my mother’s old fabric stash but the others are flannels I already have:

My friends at The Bundle Barn site made an oh so pretty version with Art Gallery fabrics and a turquoise grunge:

and here’s a mock up of a ginormous queen size with just three fabrics (me, I’d do it scrappier but sometimes you want to make a quilt out of specific fabrics for a specific person, right?)

If you’re curious, I named it for the repeating Geological feature along the Upper Missouri River. Where the river cuts into the prairie, there are areas of regular little valleys in the banks that then flatten out at the top on the grasslands. So even though my pattern has way more repeats, you can see my inspiration in this picture:

Also, it’s summer of 2024 and I have multiple other patterns I’m releasing on a quick schedule here so stay tuned…

Know Them, Raise Them, Be Them Sampler

Life has been crazy hasn’t it? Before the Covid-19 pandemic and all the changes around the worldwide response to that, I started working a lot for my local quilt shop again last fall, helping them get their computers and data together for a new point-of-sale system. Between that and a sampler that I’m writing and my son graduating high school, I have not really found time to post any new content here. I apologize for that because I can see people are checking in and I’d like to keep y’all up to date!

Guys! I’m writing a whole sampler! It’s a big stretch for me and as always happens with my creative process, I go through stages of loving it, not loving it, just wanting it done, and being so excited that this HUGE project is something I can even do! It’s really just about complete – just need the testers to go through the setting instructions for me.

More fun still for me is that it’s the “Know Them, Raise Them, Be Them” sampler honoring 20 women throughout history to whom we can look for inspiration. I wrote condensed biographies of each woman (and got great proofreading and editing help from my husband and from a dear friend). I have to say that the research and thinking about each story was wonderfully reflective and educational for me. I hope it’s the same for many quilters.

Here’s my first flimsy of the quilt, photo taken on a hazy day:

KnowThemFlimsy

And it’s getting quilted at The Quilt Shack at Lichy Woods. Her Facebook page is at  https://www.facebook.com/quiltshacklichy if you want to follow along. She’s doing some very fun custom quilting for me.

The patterns have been published on Gruber’s Quilt Shop’s website over the last several months as many of you already know. We’ll have the whole package for sale there as soon as testers approve the final setting instructions!

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