Free Baby Quilt Patterns

This little baby quilt finishes at about 34-1/2" x 43-1/4". It's made with 18 traditional Propeller quilt blocks. All of the blocks contain the same components, but in six of them a strip pieced unit is flipped around so that like-units don't meet when the quilt is assembled.

Are you looking for a super simple baby quilt pattern that doesn't look simple when it's finished? Stars Through the Windows might be the perfect solution. It goes together quickly and easily and can be made to suit any theme by simply changing the fabrics.

Pretty in Pastels is a 30" x 42" baby quilt that's made entirely with the traditional Clay's Choice block. I felt that pastels suited the design and the Easter season, but you can change the quilt's character by working with vibrant colors. Place darks or very warms where my blues are, and then use cool colors for the outer squares of each block -- the design will shift significantly with those simple changes.

The Framed Nine Patch baby quilt pattern is the first of several new baby quilts that I'll publish during April. At 45-1/2" x 60-1/2" it's larger than normal, and not a small crib quilt, but works well as baby turns into a toddler.

You'll make the Springtime Baby Quilt from two different traditional quilt blocks, Snowball and another block that's called Double V or Double R. Nancy Cabot and the Kansas City Star were two of its publishers. You can alter the colors in this quilt to suit any decor.

The Darting Birds baby quilt is made by sewing twelve 6-inch quilt blocks on point and surrounding them with setting squares and triangles. This cute baby quilt finishes at 35" x 43-1/2".

Darting Birds was a Quilting Forum Block Lotto selection in 2008. Be sure to take a look at the color layout used for those blocks -- a blue sky background with black and white birds. The blocks were lovely. Alternate Darting Birds

Traditional Double Star quilt blocks are used for this project (they're also known as Hope of Hartford). Each is made from four identical quarter-square triangle units, one center square and four rectangles. Blocks are straight-sewn and separated by sashing. At 55" x 67", the quilt finishes slightly larger than most baby quilts -- perfect for a little girl or boy to grow into.

Do you recognize this quilt block? It's the same Double V (or R) used in the Springtime Baby Quilt. But this quilt is made from larger 10" square versions of the blocks. The quilt finishes at about 55" x 69".

Here's a super easy little quilt, called Road Trip for the Route 66 fabrics that are illustrated. To make the quilt, you'll assemble columns of squares (with rectangles at the ends of a few columns to create the "wavelike" appearance). The quilt finishes at about 44-1/2" x 50-1/2".

In the Pinks is made from two traditional quilt blocks, Broken Dishes and a variation of the Hour Glass. Blocks finish at 9" square and the quilt measures about 44" x 57". Quilt blocks are set on-point and surrounded by setting triangles and corner triangles.