2020 NZP Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Kick Off & Gather Your Supplies

2020 NZP Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Kick Off & Gather Your Supplies

Announcing the NEW! 2020 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series! 

Our NEW! 2020 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series is a great way to finish a quilt in manageable monthly installments. One block at a time is an easy approach to creating a quilt. Whether you’re a beginner quilter or seasoned quilter, Team NZP’s block of the month series is a great opportunity to get stitching in the new year. In 2020, The NZP Team is honored to continue Nancy Zieman’s Block of the Month program with this very special mystery quilt series! We’re keeping the finished quilt design a mystery until later in December 2020!

After weeks of brainstorming the 2020 Mystery Quilt, Team Nancy Zieman designed a very special quilt titled, Nancy’s Red Elegance. This special quilt is an all-new design, it’s completely different from our previous BoMs, and -as always- we’ll feature Nancy’s timesaving quilt piecing tips for easy-to-make quilt blocks! Today we’re pleased to introduce you to our NEW! 2020 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series along with a supply listing – so you may prepare and gather your fabrics and supplies for creating a beautiful mystery quilt.

Though we won’t be sharing the blocks today, we will be posting a new quilt block tutorial starting in 2-1/2 weeks, on January 18! On the third Saturday of each month in 2020, Team NZP will share a free quilt block sewing tutorial for creating one block design each month— made with Nancy Zieman’s timesaving quit making methods featuring Team NZP’s NEW! Red Elegance Fat Quarter Pack from Riley Blake Designs. The NEW! Red Elegance Fat Quarter Pack includes twenty-four 18″ x 21″ fabric rectangles.

Gather Your Fabric and Supplies

All blocks will feature Team NZP’s NEW! Red Elegance Fat Quarter Pack! Each block will be 4″ or 8″ finished squares. Finished quilt measures approximately 48″ x 56″. For this quilt project, you will need: 

• One NEW! Red Elegance Fat Quarter Pack
• 1 yd. block background and binding fabric. Choose one “dark” fabric from: Red Elegance Tonal Brick, Red Elegance Textured Brick or Red Elegance Diamonds Brick.
  
• 1 yd. block background fabric. Choose one “medium” fabric from: Red Elegance Tonal Taupe, Red Elegance Stems Taupe or Red Elegance Diamonds Taupe.
• 1 yd. block background fabric. Choose one “light” fabric from: Red Elegance Rose Cream, Red Elegance Diamonds Cream or Red Elegance Lace Taupe.
  
• 3-1/4 yd. backing fabric
• Be sure to see below for Basic Supplies and Tools Listing
  

Life is about choices! Be part of designing your quilt by choosing the 3 one-yard fabric cuts (above). Choose from the options above: One light fabric tone, one medium fabric tone, and one dark fabric tone!

Red Elegance

The NEW! Red Elegance Fabric Collection evokes feelings of times gone by with a stylish flair. Cream, taupe, and stunning shades of brick-red and berry come together in grand style with Red Elegance. The florals, lace, and wallpaper prints are classic and refined. Red is the color of love, and you’ll adore working with this elegance collection honoring Nancy Zieman.

The NEW! Red Elegance Fat Quarter Pack precut fabric bundle includes 24 (18″ x 21″) fabrics from the NEW! Red Elegance fabric collection by Nancy Zieman Productions for Riley Blake Designs.

Get ready for the 2020 Nancy’s Red Elegance Mystery Block of the Month!

Our NEW! 2020 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series will feature NZP’s NEW! Red Elegance Fat Quarter Fabric Pack Collection from Riley Blake Designs. Here’s the inside scoop:

• 2020 Nancy’s Red Elegance Mystery Block of the Month Series kicks off on Saturday, January 18, 2020.
• As always, there’s no cost to join and no need to formally sign up.
• One block design will be stitched in multiples each month.
• 2020 Nancy’s Red Elegance Block of the Month is fat quarter friendly.
• 2020 Nancy’s Red Elegance Block of the Month project lasts 12 months.

Sharpen Your Tools

Well, not really, but do make certain that you have a sharp blade in your rotary cutter, and gather your rotary ruler, and cutting mat. pressing notions. The 2020 NZP Red Elegance BoM Mystery Quilt is different than our previous BoMs and will include Nancy’s carefree curves blocks! And great news! Nancy’s carefree curves blocks are created with no curved piecing! We’ll be creating the carefree curves blocks with the Carefree Curves Trace ‘n Create Template by Nancy Zieman for Clover.

Basic Supplies for the entire 12-month mystery:

• One NEW! Red Elegance Fat Quarter Pack Collection
• 1 yd. block background and binding fabric. Choose one “dark” fabric from: Red Elegance Tonal Brick, or Red Elegance Textured Brick, or Red Elegance Diamonds Brick.
• 1 yd. block background fabric. Choose one “medium” fabric from: Red Elegance Tonal Taupe, or Red Elegance Stems Taupe or Red Elegance Diamonds Taupe.
• 1 yd. block background fabric. Choose one “light” fabric from: Red Elegance Rose Cream, or Red Elegance Diamonds Cream or Red Elegance Lace Taupe.
• 3-1/4 yd. backing fabric
• 2 yd. Pellon 90″ wide 80/20 Cotton Quilt Batting
• 5 yd. Pellon SofShape Fusible Interfacing
• Carefree Curves Trace ‘n Create Template by Nancy Zieman for Clover
• Clover’s I Sew For Fun Fabric Marking Pen
• Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner
  
• Rotary Cutting Tools: 45 mm Rotary Cutter, Cutting Mat, and Ruler
  
• Neutral Sewing Thread for piecing
  
• Monofilament Thread
• Size 75 Schmetz Quilting Needles
  
• June Tailor’s Starch Savvy
• Iron
• 7-3/4″ Bordeaux Ultimate Shears
  
• Optional: 45mm Rotary Cutting Pinking Blade
• Optional: 3/8″ Fusible Bias Tape Maker
• Optional: 1/4″ Fusible Web Tape
• Optional: Mini Iron II “The Adapter”

Get Started Today!

Prepare for the NEW! 2020 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series by gathering and organizing your supplies (above). Organize your sewing space, and as soon as you have your fabric, press & starch all 24 Red Elegance Fat Quarters, along with the 3 one-yard fabric cuts in light, medium and dark!

Did you follow along with the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, or 2019 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 photos to [email protected].

Watch Quilt with Carefree Curves (Part One and Part Two) on The Best of Sewing With Nancy.

For a chance to be the random winner of a Stitch it! Sisters 5″ Fabric Short Stack with S!S button & sticker, please leave a comment below sharing your thoughts about the NEW! 2020 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series. Nancy Zieman Productions will give away one Stitch it! Sisters 5″ Fabric Short Stack to one US resident in the 48 contiguous states. Winner must reply within 30 days to the official giveaway announcement email message – sent from Nancy Zieman Productions.

Happy Quilting!

Team Nancy Zieman

Nancy Zieman Productions. LLC.

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