One Block a Month, One Town at a Time
A block-of-the-month quilt works because it replaces one big project with a series of small, finishable ones. The Here's the Scoop - Our Town Kit of the Month July kit, from Riley Blake and sold by High Country Quilts through Linda's Electric Quilters, is the July step in that process. It contains the fabrics and pattern for that month's featured project — a single block in the Our Town quilt — so you can build the town one block at a time.
What You Make: The July Block in the Our Town Quilt
This is a quilt block kit, not a finished quilt kit. What you make in this sitting is the Here's the Scoop block for July, one piece of the larger Our Town design. Month by month, the blocks accumulate into a town-themed quilt, and each monthly kit keeps the fabrics coordinated across the whole project — an important advantage of a curated program over choosing fabrics block by block on your own.
The product description does not list a finished block size, so do not plan sashing, borders, or a final quilt size around an assumed measurement. Follow the dimensions given in the included pattern, and keep the finished block labeled and stored flat with your other Our Town blocks until assembly time. The listing title also notes 45-inch-wide fabric, which refers to the fabric supplied for the project.
What Is Included — and What Comes Later
According to the description, the kit includes the fabrics and the pattern for the featured monthly project. That ready-to-sew pairing is the point of a kit-of-the-month: the fabric selection is already made for this block, so you can open the package and start cutting and sewing rather than shopping for matches.
Backing and binding are not listed as included, and that is normal at this stage. Backing, batting, and binding belong to the final assembly, once all the monthly blocks are complete and joined into a quilt top. Set those decisions aside for now, but do keep any leftover fabric from this block together with the pattern — scraps from earlier blocks are often useful for repairs, sashing choices, or a coordinated finish later in a sampler-style quilt.
Skill Level and Time to Finish
The description does not assign a formal skill level. In practical terms, a single block is a manageable project for a quilter who is comfortable with the basics: accurate cutting, a consistent quarter-inch seam allowance, and careful pressing. If you are newer to quilting, a block kit like this is a sensible way to practice those fundamentals on a small piece before committing to a full quilt top. More experienced quilters will enjoy it as a low-pressure, between-projects make.
Because you are sewing one block rather than a whole quilt, plan on a single relaxed sewing session — an afternoon is a fair expectation, including time to read the pattern before cutting. At block scale, mistakes are inexpensive: a seam can be unpicked and resewn without wrestling a large quilt through your machine.
Tips for Success With a Kit of the Month
Read the whole pattern first. Block patterns sometimes use a construction order that is not obvious from the diagrams alone. A full read-through prevents cutting a piece to a size meant for a later step.
Press, do not iron. Lift and set the iron down rather than pushing it across the block. Small blocks distort easily, and a block that has been stretched will not join neatly to its neighbours at final assembly.
Check your seam allowance early. Sew a test seam on scrap fabric and measure it before you start. In a multi-block quilt, small seam differences compound from block to block, so consistency across months matters more than speed.
Stay on schedule, gently. The rhythm is the reward of a kit-of-the-month program. Finishing the July block before the next month arrives keeps the project achievable — and watching your town grow is the best motivation to keep going.
Shop the Here's the Scoop - Our Town Kit of the Month July 45" wide fabric per yard at Linda's Electric Quilters.
