Happy Blockheads Wednesday, and Happy Valentine’s Day! We’re so excited to have Vanessa Goertzen of Lella Boutique joining us again for Blockheads. Vanessa’s fabrics are the sweetest eye candy, and we think you’re going to fall in love with her Blockheads design this week – Star Bloom!

You can find this week’s pattern here: BH5 – Group 2, Block 7 – Star Bloom by Vanessa Goertzen

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If you’re new to Blockheads, here are a couple of quick things to know:

• This is a free quilt-along. No sign-ups are required. Just download the pattern and you’re ready to sew!
• The PDF patterns will be posted on the Moda blog and in the official Facebook group every Wednesday by 8:00 AM CDT.
• You can also bookmark this page: Blockheads 5 main page to find a convenient list of all the patterns as they are released.
• If you’d like to sign up for our blog newsletter to get blog posts delivered to your inbox, you can sign up here: Blog Newsletter Sign-Up
• If you want to sew along with a virtual Blockheads community, head over to Facebook and join our official Moda Blockheads Facebook group. Our group is an active and vibrant community of 72,000 quilters and counting! It’s a great place to be inspired and share pictures of your Blockheads progress.
• If Instagram is where you prefer to hang out, be sure to follow us (@modafabrics) and the hashtags #modablockheads and #modablockheads5 to see the latest blocks from our designers and other Blockheads.
• Be sure to get your official Blockheads t-shirts, sweatshirts, tote bags, water bottles, and more from our pop-up shop HERE.

(Looking for a little more information about Blockheads? You can check out the Blockheads 5 archive HERE.)

Be sure to head over to Vanessa’s blog as soon as you’ve downloaded the pattern! Vanessa is sharing her tips and tricks for fabric placement and construction options for Star Bloom. You can find Vanessa’s blog post here: Star Bloom blog post by Lella Boutique 

Something new we’re doing for this round of Blockheads is a weekly video. You can follow along with me as I sew the block of the week and share my tips and tricks and talk about different construction techniques. I’ll post the videos on YouTube and share them here on the blog. You can watch this week’s video below:

In this week’s video, we talk about a couple of different methods for making square-in-a-square units. I’m also sharing a clever ruler that makes centering and trimming your square-in-a-square units so easy! The Deb Tucker Square Squared ruler takes all the guesswork out of making this common quilting unit – be sure to watch the video to see how to use the Square Squared ruler for fussy cutting your center squares and trimming your finished units to perfection.

Are you ready to see our blocks?

Lissa is using Nantucket Summer for her blocks.

Alison is making a fall version in 12” blocks and a patriotic version in 6” blocks. I just love the fabrics she chose for her blocks this week!

And I am making a traditional/repro scrappy fall version and a sweet/cottage-y Americana version in 6” blocks.

Now…off you go to press, cut, and sew! And don’t forget to share your blocks with us in our Facebook group or on Instagram (#modablockheads5)!