December 2025 NZP Block of the Month: Assemble & Finish!
Introducing The NEW! 2025 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series!
FREE to join, our NEW! 2025 Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series features the NEW! Dazzle Dots Fabric Fat Quarter Bundle by Christa Watson for Benartex Designer Fabrics, along with our No-Hassle Triangles Gauge & Ruler!
The The NEW! 2025 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series will be an easy BoM! We welcome everyone to join in, even if you’ve never before made a quilt!
Gather your supplies and get ready for this all-new NZP BoM 2025 Free Block Tutorial Series TODAY, right here at the NZP Blog!
This year we’re using NEW! Dazzle Dots Fabric Fat Quarter Bundle by Christa Watson for Benartex Designer Fabrics, which includes twenty-two 18″ x 21″ fabric rectangles.
Plus, you may choose from two different block background/border fabric tones and textures…white or black…solid or tone-on-tone print. We recommend the following fabrics from Benartex Designer Fabrics: Superior Solids White, or Rhapsody White Tone-on-Tone, Superior Solids Black, or Cotton Shot Charcoal!
2025 NZP Mystery Block of the Month
Basic Supplies for NEW! 2025 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series!
All blocks will feature fabrics from one NEW! Dazzle Dots Fat Quarter Fabric Pack Finished quilt measures approximately 74” x 86″. For this quilt project, you will need:
- One NEW! Dazzle Dots Fat Quarter Fabric Pack by Christa Watson for Benartex
- Exclusive No-Hassle Triangles Ruler by Team NZP
- No-Hassle Triangles Gauge by Nancy Zieman for Clover
- 5-1/4 yd. White Block Background & Border Fabric: Superior Solids White, or Rhapsody White Tone-on-Tone; or choose Black Block Background & Border Fabric: Superior Solids Black, or Cotton Shot Charcoal!
- 1 yd. Binding Fabric, choose a Coordinating Dazzle Dots Fabric by the yard.
- 5 yd. White or Black Backing Fabric, or 2-1/2 yd. White or Black WIDE BACK Backing Fabric
- June Tailor’s Starch Savvy
- 45 mm Rotary Cutter and Cutting Mat
- Frixion Marking Pen or Fine White Marking Pen by Clover
- Tailor’s Clapper or LauraStar Ironing System
- Fine Quilting Pins by Clover
- 1/4″ Quilting Presser Foot or 1/4″ Quilting Presser Foot with Guide
- Size 75 Schmetz Quilting Needles
- Silk Finish Cotton Quilting Thread for piecing
- 12-1/2″ x 12-1/2″ Omnigrid Rotary Cutting Ruler
- Queen Size Pellon Nature’s Touch 80/20 Cotton Quilt Batting
- Optional: June Tailor’s Quilt Basting Spray
- Optional: Wonder Pins by Clover
- Optional: Ultimate Quilt ‘N Stitch Presser Foot by Team NZP for Clover for quilting
- Iron or LauraStar Ironing System
Sharpen Your Tools
Well, not really, but do make certain that you have a sharp blade in your rotary cutter, and gather your No-Hassle Triangles Ruler, rotary cutting mat and pressing notions. The main tools for our 2025 Block of the Month are our Exclusive No-Hassle Triangles Ruler by Team NZP and the No-Hassle Triangles Gauge by Nancy Zieman for Clover. You may have already guessed the blocks will be made with triangles! Great News! Half-Square Triangles are easy to create with our Exclusive No-Hassle Triangles Ruler and No-Hassle Triangles Gauge!
Get Started Today
Prepare for the NEW! 2025 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series by gathering and organizing your supplies. Organize your sewing space, and as soon as you have your fabrics, press & starch all Fat Quarters.
Hint from the Stitch it! Sisters: Pre-shrink quilt fabrics by steaming and pressing, and steaming and pressing a second time, and then press one more time using June Tailors Quilter’s Starch Savvy.
- 2025 NZP Mystery Block of the Month Sewing Tutorials started on Saturday, February 15, 2025.
- As always, there’s no cost to join and no need to formally sign up.
- On the third Saturday of each month in 2025, we will be posting a new quilt block tutorial.
- Block designs will be stitched each month. Each month we will be stitching multiples of the same block design.
- 2025 NZP Block of the Month is fat quarter friendly.
- 2025 NZP Block of the Month project lasts 12 months.
- 2025 NZP Block of the Month features 6-1/2″ square blocks; 6″ finished squares.
- The Approx. Finished 2025 NZP Mystery Block of the Month Quilt Size: 74″ x 86″
Did you follow along with one or more of our previous NZP Block of the Month Series? If you finished part of all of the quilt blocks or the entire project, please share photos. We’d love to see and share them! Email your finished BoM quilt or quilt top photos to [email protected].
Find all the Supplies for NEW! 2025 Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series at Nancy Zieman Productions at ShopNZP.com!
All blocks will feature fabrics from the NEW! Dazzle Dots Fat Quarter Fabric Pack along with our Exclusive No-Hassle Triangles Ruler by Team NZP and Nancy’s No-Hassle Triangles Gauge by Clover. Follow along as we share step-by-step how to assemble, finish, and reveal our 2025 Block of the Month Quilt!
Assemble Quilt Top
Note: We’re illustrating the Dazzle Dots on White Colorway! See below for Dazzle Dots on Black Colorway!
All seam allowances are scant 1/4″ unless otherwise stated.
- Prepare quilt blocks by pressing and starching and trimming/squaring all blocks to 12-1/2″ square.
- Layout block rows as shown in diagram(below), noting block placement and rotation. Set aside three extra blocks.
- Sew blocks together into rows, with right sides together. Press seams to one side, pressing in the opposite direction every other row.
- Sew Rows, with right sides together. Press seams to one side.
Note: Prior to moving on to steps below, measure width and length of your quilt top to ensure proper border cutting sizes. Below are our quilt top measurements.
- From Block Background & Border Fabric, Cut Eight 1-1/2″ Crosswise Fabric Strips. Sew strips end-to-end into one long continuous length. Subcut strip into: Two 1-1/2″ x 84-1/2″ Strips; and Two 1-1/2″ x 75″ strips.
- Align one long (1-1/2″x 84-1/2″) vertical border strip on one long side of quilt top, right sides together. Pin. Stitch. Press seam toward outer quilt top.
- Align remaining long (1-1/2″x 84-1/2″) vertical border strip to remaining long side of quilt top, right sides together. Pin. Stitch. Press seam toward outer quilt top.
- Align one short (1-1/2″x 75″) horizontal border strip on one short edge of quilt top, right sides together. Pin. Stitch. Press seam toward outer quilt top.
- Align remaining short (1-1/2″x 75″) horizontal border strip to remaining short edge of quilt top, right sides together. Pin. Stitch. Press seam toward outer quilt top.
Finish Quilt
- Quilt Layers using your favorite quilting techniques. Optional: Use Clover’s Ultimate Quilt ‘N Stitch Presser Foot for straight-line machine quilting.
- Finish quilt, using your favorite binding technique. Or, find Nancy Zieman’s favorite binding method here at the Nancy Zieman Productions Blog: http://www.nancyzieman.com/blog/quilting-2/how-to-bind-quilts/
Note: We bound our BoM25 Funfetti Dazzle Dots Quilt by cutting Eight 2-1/2″ Crosswise Fabrics Strips from Dazzle Dots Confetti Drop Dark Green/Multi Fabric Binding Fabric, seamed strips end-to-end into one long continuous length, and stitched to quilt following our Stitch it! Sisters Program 218 Absolute Easiest Way to Sew Quilt Binding Video (below).
Your BoM25 Dazzle Dots is Finished!
Assemble Quilt Top Dazzle Dots on Black Colorway!
All seam allowances are scant 1/4″ unless otherwise stated.
- Prepare quilt blocks by pressing and starching and trimming/squaring all blocks to 12-1/2″ square.
- Layout block rows as shown in diagram(below), noting block placement and rotation. Set aside three extra blocks.
- Sew blocks together into rows, with right sides together. Press seams to one side, pressing in the opposite every other row.
- Sew Rows, with right sides together. Press seams to one side.
Note: Prior to moving on to steps below, measure width and length of your quilt top to ensure proper border cutting sizes. Below are our quilt top measurements.
- From Block Background & Border Fabric, Cut Eight 1-1/2″ Crosswise Fabric Strips. Sew strips end-to-end into one long continuous length. Subcut strip into: Two 1-1/2″ x 84-1/2″ Strips; and Two 1-1/2″ x 75″ strips.
- Align one long (1-1/2″x 84-1/2″) vertical border strip on one long side of quilt top, right sides together. Pin. Stitch. Press seam toward outer quilt top.
- Align remaining long (1-1/2″x 84-1/2″) vertical border strip to remaining long side of quilt top, right sides together. Pin. Stitch. Press seam toward outer quilt top.
- Align one short (1-1/2″x 75″) horizontal border strip on one short edge of quilt top, right sides together. Pin. Stitch. Press seam toward outer quilt top.
- Align remaining short (1-1/2″x 75″) horizontal border strip to remaining short edge of quilt top, right sides together. Pin. Stitch. Press seam toward outer quilt top.
Finish Quilt
- Quilt Layers using your favorite quilting techniques. Optional: Use Clover’s Ultimate Quilt ‘N Stitch Presser Foot for straight-line machine quilting.
- Finish quilt, using your favorite binding technique. Or, find Nancy Zieman’s favorite binding method here at the Nancy Zieman Productions Blog: http://www.nancyzieman.com/blog/quilting-2/how-to-bind-quilts/
Note: We bound our BoM25 Funfetti Dazzle Dots Quilt by cutting Eight 2-1/2″ Crosswise Fabrics Strips from Dazzle Dots Snazzy Squares Pink/Fuchsia Fabric Binding Fabric, seamed strips end-to-end into one long continuous length, and stitched to quilt following our Stitch it! Sisters Program 218 Absolute Easiest Way to Sew Quilt Binding Video (below).
Your BoM25 Dazzle Dots is Finished!
From three remaining blocks create an optional table runner, wall hanging, or bench pillow.
Watch the Stitch it! Sisters Program 218 Absolute Easiest Way to Sew Quilt Binding!
Watch the Stitch it! Sisters Absolute Easiest Way to Sew Quilt Binding Tutorial Video with hosts Deanna Springer and Dana Casey from Team NZP! In this video, Deanna and Dana share the last step in making a quilt, adding the binding! Try Nancy Zieman’s absolute easiest binging technique for great results with your next quilt.
Watch Stitch it! Sisters Program 118 No-Hassle Triangles in Quilts
Watch Stitch it! Sisters Program 118 No-Hassle Triangles in Quilts! Join Deanna as she demonstrates Nancy Zieman’s No-Hassle methods of cutting, marking, and stitching 1/2-square or 1/4-square triangles – without ever cutting a triangle, or guessing at the sizes! Plus see a gallery of quilt blocks and find inspiration for your next quilting project.
Find all the Supplies for NEW! 2025 Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series (above) at Nancy Zieman Productions at ShopNZP.com!
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Mindy Washburn
What do you do with the remaining three blocks? This is the most disappointing BOM I’ve ever done.
Nancy Zieman Productions, LLC
Hello Mindy, Thank you for reaching out regarding the remaining three blocks. In the BOM, Assemble & Finish! post, we have a “Note from Team NZP”, indicating “From three remaining blocks create an optional table runner, wall hanging, or bench pillow”. Since the original post, we’ve added images below the Note to help it stand out and provide inspiration. We are sorry to hear of your disappointment with the BOM. Please email info@ziemanproductions if you would like to share your thoughts with the BOM Team. We fell in love with the Dazzle Dots as soon as we saw the fabric collection and thought a “Funfetti” quilt would nicely showcase the prints and colors. We were striving for an easy BOM and welcome everyone to join in, of all skill levels, step by step to create a finished quilt at the end of the year. Plus, we have a fondness of Half-Square Triangles as they sew up quick and easy, especially using the No-Hassle Triangle Ruler designed by Nancy. Best regards, Team NZP
Emily Meckley
How wide is the boarder? I see you are cutting strips 1.5 inches-one inch boarder. Then you talk about joining a 3.5 inch piece for the border. I must be reading it wrong.
Nancy Zieman Productions, LLC
Thank you for reaching out, Emily. The border is 1-1/2″ wide. We apologize for the error of stating 3-1/2″ and have corrected the post. Happy Stitching! Team NZP