Why Brickwork
Some quilts are about precision. This one is about fabric. Brickwork is nothing but rectangles set in offset rows, so large prints stay whole instead of getting chopped into tiny pieces.
There are no points to match and no triangles to trim, which makes it a great first quilt and a great palate cleanser between fussier projects.
Saturday: cutting
Choose four fabrics with a mix of scale and value. Cut every rectangle the same size, then sort them into four piles.
Open the Brickwork pattern in the Quilt Explorer and the cut list tells you how many rectangles of each fabric to cut for the size you picked.
Saturday: sewing the rows
Sew the rectangles end to end into long rows, following the four-color repeat. Start every other row with a half rectangle so the seams stagger like bricks in a wall.
Press each row toward the darker fabric, then sew the rows together. Because the seams never meet, there is nothing to nest.
Sunday: quilting and binding
Straight-line quilting suits this pattern. Stitch in the ditch along the row seams, or go across the quilt every few inches with a walking foot.
Bind it Sunday afternoon and it is on the couch by dinner.