You can lay out the pieces the way that they look the prettiest, of course. You can cut your fabric to the exact dimensions you want. You can even use a design wall and plan the whole thing before you sew a stitch.

But what you WON’T have to do is follow a pattern! All of the quilt blocks in my list, below, are ones that you can construct as you go or that are so dead simple that you don’t need a pattern to make them. Even if you’re the most beginning-est of beginners at sewing, I promise that you can hold all the instructions for sewing a nine-patch quilt block in your head!