Many quiltmakers like to make six inch quilt blocks in order to use a greater variety of blocks in a sampler style quilt. Another reason might be to test out the look of a block in a smaller size in order to save on the fabrics (just in case the block looks very different than in your imagination).

Whatever your reason for creating six inch blocks, the pieces are all just smaller versions of larger sized quilt blocks -- such as the most popular size, the 12" quilt block. This is what makes quiltmaking so exciting -- you are the designer and get to choose all the components.

Sunshine

Free Quilt Block Pattern

This Sunshine quilt block is an easy nine patch design. I thought about altering the block name a little, as there are other blocks with the same name, and in particular you may want to also try a more challenging design in this Sunshine block but I stuck with the original name.

This block uses basic quilt patches -- squares, half square triangles and quarter square triangles to produce double pinwheels. All in all, this is a fun quilt block to make.

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