The fans came to her already made. Thirty of them, hand pieced by a quilter she never met, yellow centers in, some of the curved ends already basted under and ready to sew down.
Beth films from her sewing room and the channel is called my sewing room. What she does in this one is not a block tutorial. It is the older problem of what to do with a box of orphan blocks that someone gave you, and she works it through on camera, from the first pinned square to the border.
The numbers are simple and she gives them all. Background squares cut at 12 1/2 inches, from a mix of small print whites rather than one flat white, with a fan pinned to each. Where the curved end had already been basted under, the applique went down easily, and where it had not she turned the edge under with the needle as she went, in the evenings, which is when she likes handwork. Five across and six down with no sashing, which is a 60 by 72 top before the border, and the border is cut at 5 inches from the yellow fabric that came in the same box as the fans.
She tried strips between the fans first and took them out again, because she did not care for the pink. It stays in the video, which is the sort of thing most tutorials cut.
It went up in September 2026 and passed four thousand views in its first day.
The part worth the ten minutes, even if you have set fan blocks before, is the research. The pattern came with the fans, McCall's printed pattern number 74 for a patchwork quilt, and she traced it to the 1930s. Then she went to the Quilt Index, typed the single word fan into the search, and read through what other quilters had done with the same block before choosing her own layout. That is a way of working rather than a step, and it is why her quilt looks settled instead of assembled.
If you want to make the fans rather than inherit them, we wrote the block up with cutting sizes at four block sizes, both ways to build it, and a free printable sheet: the fan quilt block.
Her channel is my sewing room, where she posts a sewing or quilting video most weeks.
