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Broken Dishes Quilt Pattern Designs and Blocks you’ll love

The Broken Dishes quilt pattern is a classic quilt design that has been cherished by generations of quilters. Its name originates from the motif resembling shattered pieces of ceramic plates, meticulously arranged to form a harmonious whole.  Often made with a two-color scheme, the resulting geometric shapes play with the eye, creating a sense of movement and depth.

Quilters find that this pattern offers a delightful challenge that is well-suited for both beginners and experienced crafters. The process of creating a Broken Dishes quilt involves cutting and piecing together triangles, ensuring that all the points align perfectly in the final product. This attention to detail results in a patchwork that is as precise as it is beautiful. While the traditional design is rooted in a rich history, contemporary variations allow for creativity and personal expression, enabling quilters to put their unique twist on this time-honored pattern.

First things first, let’s get the math out of the way:

If you want a certain size block, see below to get that size broken dishes block.

• Cutting your squares 2 3/8 will give you a finished broken dishes block of 3 inches.
• Cutting your squares 2 7/8 will give you a finished broken dishes block of 4 inches.
• Cutting your squares 3 3/8 will give you a finished broken dishes block of 5 inches.
• Cutting your squares 3 7/8 will give you a finished broken dishes block of 6 inches.
• Cutting your squares 4 3/8 will give you a finished broken dishes block of 7 inches.
• Cutting your squares 4 7/8 will give you a finished broken dishes block of 8 inches.
• Cutting your squares 5 3/8 will give you a finished broken dishes block of 9 inches.
• Cutting your squares 5 7/8 will give you a finished broken dishes block of 10 inches.
• Cutting your squares 6 3/8 will give you a finished broken dishes block of 11inches.
• Cutting your squares 6 7/8 will give you a finished broken dishes block of 12 inches.

 

Super easy broken dushes quilt pattern

Makes 10″ Finished Broken Dishes Quilt Block

Here’s a quilting block pattern that can easily act as a full quilt pattern, featuring a 4 x 4 grid of half-square triangles that have white halves and variously colored halves, arranged to form the design of a colorful sawtooth star on a white base, with a white square and a colorful diamond in its center, as well as colored triangles in each corner of the block.

by Fabric406

Use your scraps = totally scrappy broken dishes quilt block

Reduce your fabric waste and make a lovely quilt block simultaneously with this pattern that shows you how to make a broken dishes block made up of eight triangles in different colors that create a design of a diagonally tilted hourglass block placed on a square in four different colors.

by Susies-scraps

Scrappy broken dishes quilt

Quilt size: 35 ½”  x 48 ½”

Follow the instructions in this pattern to turn many vibrant triangles into a gorgeous quilt that has an 8 x 7 grid of broken dishes blocks and a border on the top and the bottom of the quilt with many vertical thin rectangles that you can put together out of your leftover scraps from other quilting projects.

by Susies-scraps

2 broken dishes quilt blocks – quick and easy quilting

A treat for quilters, this pattern is a two-in-one kind that shows you how to make a regular broken dishes block with a diagonally oriented hourglass block in its center and four triangles in two colors around it, as well as an additional type of block that is almost identical, with the difference in the two triangles in the diagonal corners of the block that are made of two smaller, contrasting triangles.

Broken Dishes baby quilt

Broken Dishes baby quilt that finishes at 40½” x 48½”

Baby in size but also baby as in perfect for the crib of your bundle of joy thanks to its lovely design with a 6 x 5 grid of broken dishes blocks in pastel blue and patterned white colors that tend to look like larger pinwheel blocks, surrounded by a thin border in a color that matches the dominant baby blue.

by Bonjourquilts

Broken dishes crib quilt or broken dishes 10” blocks quilt

Here’s a pattern that will make you feel like you’re putting together a mosaic instead of a quilt that has a 3 x 4 grid of large broken dishes blocks that are in blue and white colors with the exception of a few seemingly randomly placed red triangles in occasional blocks.

by Diaryofaquilter

4-at-a-Time Half Square Triangles & a Broken Dishes Quilt Block

This beautiful square quilt will look great in any room of your house and no one will know if you sew it out of scraps of its lovely appearance with five rows of five broken dishes blocks that are in different colors but similar hues, decorated with thin, matching frame around the quilt edges.

by Bayhillstudio

How to Make a Broken Dish Quilt Block

Here’s a block that can help you make magnificent quilts with its design that features a solid color diamond in the block center with a contrasting frame around it, a white background, and four small diamonds on the diamond frame, with two contrasting triangles around each small diamond.

Intermediate 9 x9 “ broken dishes quilt block

 

When you break down this block pattern, it’s simple, it has half-square triangles in the corners, with contrasting squares in the outermost corners inside them, and a central design that has a matching solid square, a background color diamond inside it, one more square in the diamond that is in the same color as the small squares in the outermost corners.

by Quiltingdaily

Disappearing broken dishes quilt block

The creative block you can make with this pattern features a broken dishes design in two contrasting colors, small contrasting triangles in each corner, and a sawtooth star with a 2 x 2 checkered square in it on the middle of the block as the main motif.

by Nickelquilts

Broken Dishes Classic & Vintage Quilt Block (Free PDF)

Here’s a block that looks best when you make it out of white and cheerful, brightly colored fabrics, with a large diamond shape that has flattened tips and small diamonds above them, a contrasting square in its center, and an additional diamond inside that square that matches the large diamond in color.

by Fatquartershop

Free broken dishes quilt block

The block finishes at 12 1/2″ x 12 1/2.”

Brighten the mood in a room with this positive quilt that has a 5 x 4 grid of blocks with four wide, compressed hourglass shapes with diamonds next to their outer edges, set around a square in the same color as the background, with a contrasting diamond in its center.

by Fatquartershop

12”broken dishes quilt block

Here’s a block that you can easily incorporate into all kinds of quilts, featuring a square in its center, triangle shapes around each outer corner of that square, small contrasting squares in the corners of the block, a contrasting diamond inside the central square, and an additional smaller square inside that diamond.

by Figtreeandcompany

8 at a time broken dishes quilt block

Follow the instructions in this pattern to learn how you can turn sixteen half-square triangles in the same two colors into a lovely block that has a miniature 2 x 2 grid of broken dishes blocks that can fool the eyes and make you see some windmill designs inside them.

by Handmadiya

Now you have enough broken dishes to make people think you just had a Greek wedding! Have you already decided which ones will you make first? Don’t forget to write how your blocks and quilts turned out in the comments below! And feel free to subscribe to the mailing list to stay up-to-date with new content like this. Have fun making broken dishes art!