Garden Path: FREE Quilt Block Pattern

Skill Level
CONFIDENT BEGINNER

Finished Block Size
14″ x 14″

Free Quilt Block Download

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Click here to see this Garden Path Block in Susan Guzman’s Fujita Maze bed quilt pattern.

Cutting Instructions
(cut in order listed)

Dark print

1 square 6½˝ x 6½˝
4 strips 3˝ x 6½˝
4 rectangles 3˝ x 4˝

Cream print

4 rectangles 2½˝ x 3˝
2 strips 2˝ x 9½˝
2 strips 2˝ x 6½˝

Piecing the Block

1.  Referring to Diagram I-A, sew together 2 print 3˝ x 6½˝ strips and 1 cream 2½˝ x 3˝ rectangle to make long pieced strip. Make 2. In a similar manner, stitch together 2 print 3˝ x 4˝ and 1 cream 2½˝ x 3˝ rectangles to make short pieced strip (Diagram I-B). Make 2.

2. Sew 2 cream 2˝ x 6½˝ strips to print 6½˝ square (Diagram II). Stitch 2 cream 2˝ x 9½˝ strips to top and bottom to make pieced square.

3. Referring to Diagram III, sew short pieced strips to sides of pieced square. Stitch long pieced strips to top and bottom to make Garden Path Block.

The Fujita Maze bed quilt (88½″ x 88½″) is patterned in the March/April 2013 issue of McCall’s Quilting.