Ohio Star
IntermediateAn eight-point star built from quarter-square points around a solid centre.
Also known as Variable Star
64 classic quilt blocks — every one built into the design studio, drawn here exactly as it appears in the app. Browse them, learn what each is for, then design with them in seconds.
Open the Design StudioA quilt block is one repeating square of a quilt’s design — a Nine Patch, a Flying Goose, an Ohio Star. Piece the same block dozens of times, set them in a grid, and a quilt appears. These are the classics quilters have passed down for generations, and every one below is built into Quiltler’s Classics tab, ready to drop onto your design.
The showstoppers — points radiating from a centre, built from triangles and geese.
An eight-point star built from quarter-square points around a solid centre.
Also known as Variable Star
A simple, beloved star made from four half-square triangles.
The classic star: four flying-geese points framing a plain centre.
A bold four-point star with flying-goose arms reaching to every edge.
Also known as Star and Geese
A scrappy five-grid star of squares and triangles.
Also known as Four X Star
Half- and quarter-square triangles and flying geese, the engines of movement in a quilt.
The workhorse unit — a square split corner to corner.
Also known as HST, Triangle Square
Four triangles meeting at the centre, the hourglass unit.
Also known as QST, Hourglass, Four Triangle Square
A half-square triangle stretched onto a 2:1 rectangle.
Also known as HRT
A directional triangle: one goose flanked by two sky corners.
Four half-square triangles spinning around the centre.
Triangles turned so the darks tumble like scattered plates.
Eight flying geese wheeling in pairs around the block.
Two triangles forming a bold arrow — stack for zigzag rows.
An optical-illusion block of woven, overlapping cards.
Triangles chasing the opposite way to a pinwheel's sails.
A flock of small triangles filling half the block.
Birds in the Air stepped across a larger grid — a stronger gust.
Four hourglasses turned so the darks pinwheel round the middle.
Triangles crossing the block twice for a strong double X.
Columns of flying geese repeated into a marching flock.
Every cell of a nine patch cut into one bold diagonal triangle.
Four little pinwheels set two by two, all spinning the same way.
Also known as Four Pinwheels
Pinwheels with light and dark swapped — turning blades in a chequer.
Triangles all leaning one way stack into bold diagonal bolts.
Also known as Lightning, Zigzag
Rows of triangles reversing lean to run a saw-toothed ribbon.
Also known as Rick Rack, Streak
Triangles down both diagonals draw a crisp sawtooth X.
Also known as Crosses and Losses
A whole sky of geese, every cell a bird pointing up.
Also known as Wild Geese
A field of quarter-square hourglasses ranked into rows.
A calm centre square ringed by a churning border of triangles.
A large triangle of shore meeting water along a sawtooth edge.
Squares, rectangles and chains — the friendliest place for a first quilt to begin.
Four squares in a two-by-two grid — the simplest patchwork there is.
Four patches paired with plain squares for a nested chequer.
The classic 3×3 grid and the perfect first patchwork block.
A nine patch cut and re-sewn into a surprising new block.
Simple strips sewn side by side — turn them to weave a fence.
Three rails with a contrasting centre stripe.
Offset rectangles laid like a running-bond brick wall.
Also known as Running Bond
Triangles at the corners and a solid centre — a homespun classic.
Corner triangles and edge bars framing a centre — also Monkey Wrench.
Also known as Monkey Wrench, Hole in the Barn Door
Four clawed paws joined with sashing — bold folk-art charm.
A square with clipped corners to nestle beside pieced blocks.
A square set on point inside another — the economy block.
Also known as Diamond in a Square, Economy Block
A nine patch with triangle corners and its colours turned around.
Two squares and two triangles pinched into the knot of a bow tie.
Four patches and triangles climbing the block like rungs.
A clean cross of five squares — a modern-quilt staple.
Also known as Cross
Bars at right angles so the block reads as woven strips.
Also known as Woven, Roman Square
A four-by-four chequer of light and dark squares.
A five-by-five postage-stamp chequer.
Also known as Postage Stamp
A nine patch whose dark cells are each themselves a nine patch.
Squares corner to corner, tiling an unbroken lattice.
Also known as X Block
The chain's companion, laying a double lattice of colour.
Concentric square rings rippling out from the centre.
Diamonds of light and dark rippling out on point.
A bar of thread top and bottom with the reel showing between.
Also known as Spools
A single square held in a one-patch border.
Also known as Bordered Square
Solid patches in the corners and centre joined by a plain cross.
Three colours stepped along the diagonal in clean bands.
Also known as Diagonal Stripes
A six-by-six chequer — the plainest there is.
Also known as Thirty-Six Patch
A square on point filling the block, its points touching the edges.
Also known as Diamond in a Square
Square rings alternating light and dark — a target squared off.
Also known as Bull's Eye
A leaf body with sky corners and a stem to the corner.
Strips wrapped round a centre, endlessly re-set into secondary patterns across a quilt.
Strips wrapped around a glowing centre — the most versatile block there is.
A Log Cabin variation with logs added in facing pairs.
Every block here is one click away in the Quiltler design studio. Stamp them onto your quilt, recolour with your own fabrics, calculate exact yardage, and export a printable pattern.
Open the Design StudioEvery card above is tagged Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced. New to quilting? Start with a Nine Patch, a Four Patch or a Rail Fence — just squares and straight seams. Ready for triangles? Try a Pinwheel or Flying Geese. Want a challenge? A Bear Paw or Card Trick will reward the effort.
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