2022 NZP Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series Kick Off and Gather Your Supplies
Announcing the NEW! 2022 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series!
Our NEW! 2022 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. Plus our BoM22 is fat quarter friendly. Whether you’re a beginner quilter or seasoned quilter, our block of the month series is a great opportunity to get stitching in the new year. Team NZP is honored to continue Nancy Zieman’s Block of the Month program with our free monthly block sewing tutorials! We’ll be keeping the finished quilt design a mystery until later in December 2022! Hint: This year’s quilt is not a block sampler!
Though we won’t be sharing the blocks today, we will be posting a new quilt block tutorial starting on February 19! And on the third Saturday of each month in 2022. Today we’re excited to announce the featured BoM22 featured fabrics! This year, for the first time, you may choose from two different NEW! Bali Batik Palettes Fat Quarter Bundle Colorways by our friends at Benartex:
Choose Caribbean – Take a dive into the white sand beaches of the islands with the Bali Palettes Caribbean Palette Fat Quarter Pack. The versatile swirls, textures and dots in vibrant shades of aqua, lime and blue with a hint of lemon yellow will have you dreaming of a beach vacation.
Or, choose Rainbow – Fill your world with color and wonder with the Bali Palettes Rainbow collection. Bright floral, leaf and swirl motifs amplify the excitement of this collection. These richly hued blue and purple Bali batiks are sure to add the perfect dose of color to your decor. 
Each NEW! Bali Palettes Fat Quarter Bundle includes thirteen 18″ x 21″ fabric rectangles.
Gather Your Fabric and Supplies
All blocks will feature fabrics from one of the NEW! Bali Palettes Fat Quarter Bundles! Finished quilt measures approximately 59” x 74″. For this quilt project, you will need:
- One NEW! Bali Palettes Caribbean Fat Qtr. PackorBali Palletts Rainbow Fat Qtr. Pack.
- Our Exclusive No-Hassle Triangles Ruler by Team NZP
- No-Hassle Triangles Gauge by Nancy Zieman for Clover
- 3 yd. White Block Background Fabric (options listed below)
- 1 yd. Border and Binding Fabric Caribbean (options listed below)
- 3-1/2 yd. White Quilt Backing Fabric
- Basic Supplies and Tools Listed Below
2022 NZP Mystery Block of the Month
The NEW! Bali Palettes Caribbean Fat Quarter Pack and Bali Pallettes Rainbow Fat Quarter Pack by Benartex offers two beautiful colorways to choose from! Each NEW! Bali Palettes Fat Quarter Pack includes thirteen 18″ x 21″ 100% cotton triple-dyed designer batik fabrics. Choosing just one Bali Pallette may be the most difficult part of our BoM22!
Get ready for the 2022 Nancy Zieman Productions Mystery Block of the Month!
Our NEW! 2022 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series will feature the NEW! Bali Palettes Fat Quarter Packs in Caribbean and Rainbow! Here’s the inside scoop:
- 2022 Bali Palette Mystery Block of the Month Series kicks off on Saturday, January 15, 2022.
- As always, there’s no cost to join and no need to formally sign up.
- Block designs will be stitched each month. One or more months we will be stitching multiples of the same block design.
- 2022 Bali Palette Block of the Month is fat quarter friendly.
- 2022 Bali Palette 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 No-Hassle Triangles Ruler, rotary cutting mat and pressing notions. The main tools for our 2022 Bali Palette 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 a few triangles! Great News! Half-Square and Quarter-Square Triangles are easy to create with our Exclusive No-Hassle Triangles Ruler and No-Hassle Triangles Gauge!
Basic Supplies for NEW! 2022 Nancy Zieman Productions Free! Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series!
You’re the designer, choose between TWONEW! Bali Palettes Fat Qtr. Packs, then choose coordinating Block Background Fabric, and Border and Binding Fabrics by our friends at Benartex:
- One NEW! Bali Palettes Caribbean Fat Qtr. Pack or NEW! Bali Palletts Rainbow Fat Qtr. Pack.
- Exclusive No-Hassle Triangles Ruler by Team NZP
- No-Hassle Triangles Gauge by Nancy Zieman for Clover
- 3 yd. White Block Background Fabric, choose one: NEW! Day and Night Paisley White, or NEW! Day and Night Dot Waves White, or NEW! Day and Night Geo Bloom White Fabric by the Yard, or a coordinating light fabric from your stash.
- 1 yd. Border and Binding “Caribbean” Fabric, choose one: Bali Batik Mod Paisley Lime & Blue, or Bali Batik Floral Sprigs Turquoise Multi, or Bali Batik Agate Teal & Lime, or Bali Batik Bubbles Turquoise Multi Fabric by the Yard.
Or 1 yd. Border and Binding “Rainbow” Fabric: Bali Batik Floral Sprigs Blue Multi, or Bali Batik Mod Paisley Green & Purple, or Bali Batik Mod Paisley Bright Multi, or Bali Batik Floral Sprigs Blue & Aqua. - 3-1/2 yd. White Backing Fabric
- Queen Size Pellon Nature’s Touch 80/20 Cotton Quilt Batting
- Size 75 Schmetz Quilting Needles
- Clover’s Quilting Pins
- June Tailor’s Starch Savvy
- Tailor’s Clapper
- Frixion Marking Pen
- 45 mm Rotary Cutter and Cutting Mat
- 1/4″ Quilting Presser Foot
- Optional: Clover’s Ultimate Quilt ‘N Stitch Presser Foot for quilting
- Optional: Clover’s Fine White Marking Pen
- Optional: Quilt Basting Spray
- Optional: Clover’s NEW! Wonder Pins
- Silk Finish Cotton Quilting Thread for piecing
- Iron
UPDATE: BoM2022 NEW! Bali Batik Fabrics Shipping in Late January!
Get Started Today!
Prepare for the NEW! 2022 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, prewash separately in cold water and lay flat or hang to dry. Then, press & starch all 13 NEW! Bali Palette Fat Quarters. 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! 2022 Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series at Nancy Zieman Productions at ShopNZP.com! You’re the designer, choose one colorway from the NEW! Bali Palettes Fat Quarter Pack options with coordinating Block Background Fabric, and Border and Binding Fabric by Benartex, above!
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Find all the Supplies for NEW! 2022 Block of the Month Mystery Quilt Series at Nancy Zieman Productions at ShopNZP.com! You’re the designer, choose one colorway from the NEW! Bali Palettes Fat Quarter Pack options with coordinating Block Background Fabric, and Border and Binding Fabric by Benartex, above!
For a chance to be the random winner of a Mystery Stitch it! Sisters 5″ Short Stack with S!S button & sticker, please leave a comment below sharing your thoughts about our NEW! BoM22 and/or which colorway is your favorite, Rainbow or Caribbean!
Nancy Zieman Productions will give away one Stitch it! Sisters 5″ Short Stack with S!S button & sticker 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
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Juanita
Miss Nancy Although still watch her on utube and online. Love both these choices of fabric for BM22. Hard to decide
AS
Rainbow
Sandy
Great colorways to choose from but my favorite is the Rainbow selection. Can see possibilities of a great mystery quilt.
Nancy
The Caribbean colors really caught my eye! Looking forward to this quilt along!
Carolyn Garrod
The blues are beautiful!!!!
Gabrielle G
Love your fabric choices for you mystery block of the year quilt.
BARBARA MERKLEY
I love the rainbow colors, looks like this will be a fun quilt to make.
Dixie
Rainbow colors would be my choice to make the quilt.
Karen M
Love the lighter colors, have sew many shows of Nancy on VCR & DVR
Time to quilt!
Kim
Why do we need queen size batting?
Deanna Springer
Hi Kim, You may use your own batting, or batting by the yard, instead of our grab-and-go queen batt.
Nichola Spoerl
I am excited to be included in this project. I love both fabrics, making it hard to choose between them for the quilt.
Gail
I love the Rainbow fabric bundle. The colors look deep and rich.
Diane Kaufmann
This will be my first time joining a BOM. Looking forward to this! The Rainbow bundle looks cheery to me.
Helen Glover
I love sewing with batiks so am excited about this one. I hope I remember to open my email that day!! Am going with the Rainbow collection and it’s deep, rich color way. Thanks again! This will be my 3rd BOM from Nancy Zieman. Still miss her so much. But love watching older shows on you tube.
Mary Silverman
Ah , the Carribean is my favorite!
BevM
I especially enjoy batiks. I like both color packs, but I prefer the darker, warmer rainbow pack.
Candice
My first thought is the Carribean, as I am all about the water and blues, but I want to swap out a few (the yellows) for some of the blues in the Rainbow! Oh dear – decisions, decisions! Excited to see what stitches out!
Susan Green
Both sets of fabric are beautiful, but I believe my favorite is Rainbow.
Sue Wiggins
I will do the Rainbow colors since all the colors seem so intense and go together so well.
Carol Rannow
It is a hard choice. I love the deep richness of rainbow but the Caribbean would go great with my outdoor porch furniture.
sylvia storey
both so beautiful but I think the Rainbow would be my choice
Jill Meador
Love the Rainbow stack, both are beautiful tho. I like the deep colors of the Rainbow stack
Jody
With our Wisconsin temps — It HAS to be Caribbean!!!
p.J. Miller
Love the Caribbean fabrics. Should be a fun project.
jo wray
Jwray
Both of the colorways are interesting . I really like batiks. Either one would make a beautiful quilt.
Micky Norbeck
Love the rainbows colorway. We need bright in our lives right now!
Mary D
I love the Caribbean pack – it reminds me of sunny days and clear blue skies! I miss Nancy, but I still watch her on PBS a couple of times each week.
Kathryn
I love both color groiups. If I had to pick one, it would be caribbean.
Lisa Giesfeldt
I think I would go with the rainbow option, and maybe a deep navy background to make those colors pop
Sueann walter
They are both beautiful, but the Rainbow speaks to me.
Jennifer L Fried
Caribbean, Bali prints are so inviting, my fav.
Cindy
I lo.ve batiks, both are excellent choices. Can’t wait for this mystery
Betty Fisher
Yes, the rainbow would fit my color scheme.
Sybil
I lover the bright Caribbean color way. It will make such a cheerful quilt!
Linda Cianciolo
Love both sets of batiks. Reminded me of the Eastern Caribbean cruise we took in January 2020.
Kaye
I like the Caribbean colors. My 1st time doing a mystery quilt.
Pat
Both are great, but if had to pick one, it would be the Caribbean set.
Alinda Coiner
This sounds exciting!! Can’t wait!
Gloria McCulley
The colors of both sets are absolutely gorgeous! I’ll go with the Caribbean set as my fave.
Aymee Smith
Caribbean!!!! Beautiful!!!!
Susan Du
I’m loving the color contrasts among the teals, blues, and purples in the Rainbow.
Jan
I love a mystery quilt and look forward to seeing how this comes together. Without being a sampler style. YAY!!! I love the Caribbean coloureays.
Susan
Block of the Month is such a great way to learn design and the Caribbean color palette is my favorite.
KJ
This sounds like a great BOM. I am a rainbow girl all the way. 🙂
Kresti A Lyddon
I like both colorways – anything in batiks is great, IMO!! Thanks for the terrific Sew-alongs!
Brenda Hulsey
I love both color ways but Rainbow is so colorful!
Karen Poole
I love watching the mystery quilts coming together! I would choose the rainbow color.
Clovis
The Caribean colors would be just right.
Karen
I like both color ways, but would choose the rainbow one. Thanks for all you do.
Vivian
This is a hard choice but I think the Caribbean colors win out for me!
Kristi
This will be my 1st BOM, so I am super excited. I went with the Caribbean.
Margie
Caribbean! Fabulous color selection. Very calming to the eye – we need that with Wisconsin winters!
Sandy Y.
Love both color combinations but I’m a Caribbean girl all the way!
Marcia
Caribbean!