Completed Quilts

North Star Quilt – The Dear Stella one

Today I’m sharing another North Star quilt! This Dear Stella North Star quilt was completed during the quilt along a while back. North Star is available in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

Dear Stella North Star quilt by Emily of Quiltylove.com

My original North Star quilt was done up with darker fabrics so I was excited to try this version with these brightly colored Dear Sella basics. This fabric bundle is such a happy one!

Dear Stella basics fat quarter bundle in rainbow order.

North Star is fat quarter friendly so this fat quarter bundle worked out perfectly.

North Star quilt top in Dear Stella fabric

I quilted this one up using the Serpentine stitch on my Janome machine. It’s possible I use that stitch for quilting way too much but it’s such an easy one to do! And the quilts always look so good with it. I have a tutorial here for the multi stitch zig zag quilting. The technique is the same, just the stitch is different.

North Star quilt being quilted on a Janome

North Star quilt being quilted on a Janome sewing machine

I backed this bright happy North Star quilt with a gold metallic dot fabric. The binding is a navy and white stripe.

North Star quilt pattern

North Star is a block based star quilt pattern. It includes instructions for a baby size, a throw size and a queen size.

This modern sawtooth star quilt pattern is fat quarter friendly.

Materials:

Dear Stella Basics
Kona Cotton white
Timeless treasures stripe in Navy (binding)
Backing is a Riley Blake gold dot
Quilters Dream batting

City Tiles Quilt- The indigo one

If I had a favorite quilt, this just might be it. I love it so much that I’ve made it twice ;). This is my Indigo City Tiles quilt from the quilt along a while back.

City Tiles is available in the Quilty Love shop.

These Cotton and Steel blues and Indigos are so pretty together and they really pop against this flax Essex linen background. City Tiles is the second quilt pattern ever written for Quilty Love. It’s still a favorite though. I gave my first City Tiles quilt to my dad so I made another one for myself :)

This block based quilt pattern is a fun and rewarding one to make.

This City Tiles is quilted on my domestic machine using my favorite serpentine stitch. It gives it this beautiful texture. The linen in this quilt makes for a really warm and heavy quilt. Just what we need during our midwest winters.

Did you see the Octopus blocks?! The fussy cut Octopi look like they are swimming around the block. That’s got to be an all time favorite fabric. I left some of those pretty Cotton and Steel selvedges in my fabrics too. I like the unexpected pop of color they bring.

You can see a closer up view of the Octopus and selvedges here.

This City Tiles quilt is backed in this fun hand sketched backing. Cotton and Steel fabrics are some of the softer ones out so they make for the softest quilts!

These wavy quilting lines are spaced at 3/4in apart. I have a tutorial here for this machine quilting technique. Use the zig zag stitch or the serpentine stitch on your machine.

The City Tiles quilt pattern comes with instructions for a larger block like this one and a smaller block. It’s available in the Quilty Love Pattern Shop.

Scrappy Hearts Quilt + a QAL

I’m so excited to share this heart quilt today! Scrappy Hearts quilt is a fun and scrappy patchwork heart quilt just in time for Valentine’s Day!

You can find the Scrappy Hearts Quilt in the Quilty Love Shop. Be sure to sign up for the quilt along starting on January 20th!

Scrappy Hearts quilt pattern

This happy scrappy heart quilt brought all the warm fuzzies as I was making it. It brought back a rush of happy feelings and really reminded me just how much I love quilting.

Scrap friendly quilt

Scrappy Hearts is designed with your scrap stash in mind. It’s a perfect quilt for digging through the scrap stash. Stick with one color like I did here with the pinks, or choose a few to make up your blocks.

The pattern does include fat quarter cutting instructions also.

Solid or scrappy background

The pattern for this heart quilt includes instructions for using both a solid or a scrappy background. I’m excited to make up a scrappy version using all of my low volume scraps as the background.

Baby, throw and twin

Scrappy Hearts quilt includes instructions for three quilt sizes! Make a baby size, throw size or a twin size. Or, make one block as a mini quilt!

Great beginner quilt

Scrappy Hearts is a perfect beginner quilt! It’s part of the Quilty Love simple series patterns which means it’s quick, easy and beginner friendly. This quilt goes together in no time.

Join us for the Scrappy Hearts Quilt Along!

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The quilt along will be short and sweet and should be easy enough for most quilters to follow along. I encourage you all to use your scraps for this one! The pattern does include fat quarter instructions also if you want to use fat quarters from your stash.

I used all pinks for my version of the Scrappy Hearts quilt. Majority of these fabrics came from my scrap bins with a few additional fat quarters from my stash. I love that this quilt can be made entirely from scraps! Especially if you do a scrappy background. I plan to do a scrappy background for my quilt along version. I’m so excited!

Scrappy quilts are just so much fun to make. They tend to bring back all of the happy memories of the previous quilts made with the scraps. I think that’s why I love them so much.

I dressed the baby in these cute vintage overalls from the 60s for a quick Scrappy Hearts photo shoot. She’s busy these days so you have to work quick with her!

I had this pretty yellow floral fabric in my stash for the backing. I’ve been saving it for the perfect quilt and I love how it pairs with this pink heart quilt. The fabric is a floral by Sevenberry for Robert Kaufman.

Quilting

I quilted this Scrappy Hearts quilt myself on the Janome MC6700p using a walking foot. This is the serpentine stitch that I love so much. It’s done the exact same way as the zig zag stitch in this tutorial but with the wavy setting instead.

I hope you guys loving making this quilt! You can grab a copy in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

Night Stars – Robert Kaufman Color of the Year – Enchanted

It’s time for the brand new Kona color of the year! The Robert Kaufman Kona color of the year is the gorgeous dark green color called Enchanted. I used the new color and made up a Night Stars quilt.

I was thrilled when Robert Kaufman reached out to ask if I would make a quilt using this new COTY. I made up the latest Quilty Love quilt pattern with it since it would highlight this new color so nicely.

Robert Kaufman kona solids are pretty much the only solids you will find in my stash. They have hundreds of colors and a nifty little swatch book to help plan out which colors to use.

The colors used in this quilt are Cypress, Ivory, Ice Frappe and Enchanted. I kept it monochromatic with this version. I love how it turned out!

The new Enchanted COTY serves as the background of this quilt along with the star centers.

These colors are rich and beautiful. The lighter colored cream stars tone down the bolder colors.

This Night Stars quilt was quilted by a local quilter. I kept it simple with one inch spaced waved lines.

I used Enchanted for the backing and binding of this star quilt. This feels like such a classic quilt with the simpler selection of colors.

This quilt will be traveling around the US (world?) for the next year in the Robert Kaufman COTY trunk show. It will be one of the six quilts in the COTY collection.

Night Stars can be found in my pattern shop. This the throw size version. It’s a nice generous throw size. The pattern also includes instructions for a baby size and a queen size.

Night Stars is a bold star quilt that has a few fun quilting techniques such as quarter square triangles, half square triangles and flying geese.

You can find Night Stars in the Quilty Love pattern Shop.

Enchanted by Robert Kaufman is available at your favorite quilt shops.