March 2025 NZP Block of the Month Mystery Quilt

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’ll be 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 info@ziemanproductions.com.

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 create the March Quilt Blocks.

March Quilt Blocks 

Keep your fabric choices sorted using this handy Fabric Planner Diagram. Download the planner, make notes, and/or pin cut block elements to the planner to remind you of the fabric placements.

Prepare your fabrics! Pre-shrink fabrics by steaming and pressing. Then, stabilize fabrics for the sewing process by pressing and starching fabrics with Quilter’s Starch Savvy.

March 2025 NZP Block of the Month Quilt Blocks

The assembled block is 12-1/2″ square; 12″ finished square.

This month we are featuring one block, and repeating the steps five times to make a total of five blocks. Follow along as we demonstrate how to create the March Quilt Blocks.

This month we are illustrating the Dazzle Dots Confetti Drop Teal/Multi and Dazzle Dots Snazzy Squares Green/Lime Fabric, along with the Sunburst Dots White Tone-on-Tone Fabric as the block background fabric.

Cut Fabrics for FIVE March Quilt Blocks

Using the Exclusive No-Hassle Triangles Ruler by Team NZP, cut block squares, below. The finished blocks will measure 3-1/2″

• Cut TWENTY 3-7/8″ squares from Dazzle Dots Snazzy Squares Green/Lime Fabric Fat Quarter.

When using the No-Hassle Triangles Ruler to cut squares, aligning fabric is easy…just follow the color-coordinating markings! Finished 1/2-Square Quilt Block Cutting Lines are marked on Ruler in PURPLE. For the Mystery Block of the Month we are cutting 3-7/8″ squares that will make finished 3-1/2″ blocks.

• Start by cutting four 3-7/8″ fabric strips aligning the fabric to the 3-7/8″ Purple coordinating markings along the length of the No-Hassle Triangles Ruler.

• Cut the four 3-7/8″ fabric strips into TWENTY 3-7/8″ squares by rotating the fabric strips 90-degrees and aligning the fabric strips to the left and top 3-7/8″ Purple coordinating markings at the bottom of the No-Hassle Triangles Ruler.

• Cut TWENTY 3-7/8″ squares from Dazzle Dots Confetti Drop Teal/Multi Fabric Fat Quarter.

• Cut FOUR 3-7/8″ Crosswise fabric strips from Block Background Fabric, shown here in Sunburst Dots White Tone-on-Tone Fabric. Feel free to choose white or black…solid or tone-on-tone print fabric.
• From each crosswise fabric strip, sub-cut ELEVEN 3-7/8″ squares from Block Background Fabric, for a total of FORTY FOUR squares (we will be using FORTY squares this month.)

Construct HALF-SQUARE TRIANGLES using Green/Lime & and Block Background Fabrics

All seam allowances are scant 1/4″ unless otherwise stated.

Create FORTY 3-1/2″ finished Half-Square triangle blocks from the 3-7/8″ Dazzle Dots Snazzy Squares Green/Lime Fabric and Block Background Fabric squares, using the directions below.

• Align 3-7/8″ squares right sides together, in pairs of one Squares Green/Lime (dark fabric) and Block Background Fabric (light fabric); pin. Create TWENTY block set pairs.

Mark block set pairs using a Clover’s No-Hassle Triangles Gauge, and Clover’s Fine Marking Pen or a Frixion Marking Pen, using the directions below.

• The left side of the No-Hassle Triangles Gauge is designated to create Half-Square Triangle quilt blocks. Depress button on sliding portion of the gauge, and move to 3-7/8″ Half-Square Triangle setting.

• Place Clover’s No-Hassle Triangles Gauge on the block set pairs, corner to corner. Match corner marks of gauge with corner of block set pairs. Mark fabric through center die cut openings on gauge, with Clover’s Fine Marking Pen or a Frixion Marking Pen.
• Using the marking pen and a ruler, connect the marked lines on the block pair set to create one solid line center mark.
• Repeat steps, marking all FORTY 3-7/8″ Half-Square triangle block set pairs.

Stitch Blocks

• Insert a new Size 75 Schmetz Quilting Needle and attach 1/4″ Quilting Presser Foot to sewing machine.
• Align the right edge of the 1/4″ Quilting Presser Foot along one side of center mark of the block pair set, stitch.
• “Kiss” the next block set to the stitched block and chain stitch (stitching continually) from one block pair set to the next.

• Rotate block pair sets 180 degrees, stitch along the other side of center marked lines.

• Using a scissors, clip threads between chain stitched block pair sets, and remove pins.

• Cut block pair sets apart along center marked lines with a rotary cutter, ruler, and mat.

• Using a Tailor’s Clapper to set the stitching, press seams flat.

• Using a Tailor’s Clapper to set the seams, open blocks and press seam allowances, using the directions below, to allow blocks to “nest” when pieced together:
• Press TWENTY blocks seam allowance towards dark fabric.

• Press TWENTY blocks seam allowance towards light fabric.

• You have created FORTY 3-1/2″ Half-Square triangle blocks cut from Squares Green/Lime (dark fabric) and Block Background Fabric (light fabric)—TWENTY blocks pressed towards dark fabric, and TWENTY blocks pressed towards light fabric.

Stitch Blocks Sections

• Layout EIGHT 3-1/2″ Half-Square Triangle Blocks, as show below, ensuring blocks are positioned with correct pressed seam allowance direction. Rotate blocks as needed.

• Place Half-Square Triangle Blocks from top row right sides together, in pairs. Pin.
• Press seams flat, then press open or to one side–using a Tailor’s Clapper to set the seams.
• Repeat steps above with bottom row.

• Place top row to bottom row right sides together. Pin.
• Stitch.
• Press seams flat, then press open or to one side–using a Tailor’s Clapper to set the seams.

• Repeat steps to create FOUR MORE joined Half-Square Triangle Blocks sections for a total of FIVE.

Construct HALF-SQUARE TRIANGLES using Confetti Drop Teal & and Block Background Fabrics

• Repeat steps above to create FORTY 3-1/2″ finished Half-Square triangle blocks cut from Confetti Teal (dark fabric) and Block Background Fabric (light fabric)—TWENTY blocks pressed towards dark fabric, and TWENTY blocks pressed towards light fabric.

Stitch Blocks Sections

1. Layout EIGHT 3-1/2″ Half-Square Triangle Blocks, as show below, ensuring blocks are positioned with correct pressed seam allowance direction. Rotate blocks as needed.

• Place Half-Square Triangle Blocks from top row right sides together, in pairs. Pin.
• Press seams flat, then press open or to one side–using a Tailor’s Clapper to set the seams.
• Repeat steps above with bottom row.

• Place top row onto bottom row right sides together. Pin.
• Stitch.
• Press seams flat, then press open or to one side–using a Tailor’s Clapper to set the seams.

• Repeat steps to create FOUR MORE joined Half-Square Triangle Blocks sections for a total of FIVE.

Join Block Halves

• Layout TWO Half-Square Triangle Blocks Sections, as show below. Rotate Block Sections as needed.

• Place top half section onto bottom half section right sides together. Pin.
• Stitch to create full blocks.
• Press seams flat, then press open or to one side–using a Tailor’s Clapper to set the seams.

• Repeat steps to create FOUR MORE complete blocks for a total of FIVE March Blocks.

The March Blocks are now complete! Stay tuned for next month’s April’s Mystery block!

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.

1/2 -Square and ¼-Square Triangle Quilt Blocks are the foundation elements of many popular quilt blocks including Night Vision, Weather Vane, Sawtooth Star, Shoo Fly, Square Dance, May Basket, Kings Crown, Windmill, and Nancy’s Spool.