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Ombre Woven Star Fall Quilt

Today I’m sharing an Ombre Woven Star Fall quilt! Yes, another ombre quilt 😉 I should compile a blog post with all of my ombre quilts because there are a lot of them!

VandCo has a brand new ombre line hitting stores soon so I was so excited for a chance to sew up a couple of quilts using these new ombres. This ombre line is a wovens line and does not disappoint. These VandCo Ombre Wovens are a thinner fabric with ombre stripes throughout the width of fabric. The stripes and the color darkness changes through the width of fabric.

These ombre fabrics are a thinner fabric so they make for a nice, soft and lightweight quilt. I thought it would be fun to showcase the ombre colors in a Star Fall quilt. I stuck with the warm colors in the fabric line and used the cool colors in another quilt.

The Star Fall quilt pattern is available in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

Star Fall quilt pattern

Star Fall is a simple sawtooth star quilt pattern. You can use five different prints for the throw size or make it scrappy keeping each column the same color. The ombre effect is more subtle in these ombre wovens so I thought it would add a lot of interest using them in this quilt pattern.

I tried to keep the ombre fade going in this quilt but it didn’t always work out. In the end it didn’t really matter since the effect is subtle anyways.

I rarely worry about directional prints in my quilts and this star quilt was no exception. Since the Ombre woven fabrics have stripes they are directional. But I didn’t worry about which direction the stripes were going in this quilt.

Star Fall quilt pattern sizes

The Star Fall quilt pattern includes three different sizes:

  • Crib Size or lap size (or baby size)
  • Throw size
  • King Bed quilt

The size of the block grows with each size quilt. So the baby size has a smaller star block while the King size has a much larger star block size. The layout is the same for each size quilt. Each size Star Fall quilt has five columns and requires five different prints or solids.

The baby size can be made using 1/4 yards or fat quarters. The throw size uses 1/2 yards and the king size uses 1-1/4 yards.

Make it scrappy

You can also make Star Fall scrappy by using the same color scraps for each column. I made a scrappy baby size Star Fall here.

VandCo Ombre Wovens

I’m a long time fan of all VandCo fabrics. One of my favorite lines ever is Vanessa’s Color me Happy fabric line. She now does ombre fabrics only and I’m pretty sure I’ve sewn up a quilt using almost every ombre line.

I was thrilled to get my hands on this VandCo Ombre Woven fabric line because I was so curious how they would sew up in a quilt. All of the VandCo Ombres have been quilting cottons so this line is a little different.

The ombre wovens are a much thinner fabric. That makes them useable for both garments and quilts. There is a little more give and stretch so you want to handle them with care when using them in your quilts. I didn’t have any trouble sewing them up and would gladly make more quilts using this type of fabric.

This Ombre Woven Star Fall quilt ended up feeling very lightweight and soft.

Bold star quilt blocks

Star Fall is a simple sawtooth star quilt pattern. The quilt is made up using all star quilt blocks. The only background fabric in this quilt is the stars themselves. Use a subtle print like I did here or choose something more bold for your stars.

Long Arm Quilting by Knot and Thread

I sent this Ombre Wovens Star Fall quilt off to Knot and Thread for quilting. I always have Kait choose the quilting design so I’m not sure what this quilting pantograph is called. You can see the design better on the backing fabric below.

Bright and Vibrant Star quilt

I love how bright and vibrant this Star Fall quilt turned out using the warm colors from the Ombre Wovens fabric line. It’s the perfect summer quilt since it’s nice and lightweight too.

Star Fabric

I used the lighter beige ombre woven fabric for the stars in this star quilt. So the stars also have a subtle ombre effect to them.

I used that same fabric as the binding also.

Ombre Wovens Star Fall quilt materials

Quilt Pattern: Star Fall by Quilty Love
Fabrics: VandCo Ombre Wovens for Moda Fabrics
Backing: Kona Cotton in Silver
Pieced on my Janome MC6700p
Quilted by Knot and Thread

Ombre Patchwork Flying Geese quilt

Today I have an ombre Patchwork Flying Geese quilt to share! I couldn’t resist sewing up this stash buster flying geese quilt using my ombre stash. Everything looks good in ombre fabrics and I had a feeling Patchwork Flying Geese would look interesting.

So I dug through my Ombre Confetti stash and pulled enough fat quarters to make a medium throw size Ombre Patchwork Flying Geese quilt. This quilt sewed up nice and fast and that ombre fabric gives it a lot of interest. I sewed my blocks in like colors and arranged in an ombre fade but I think this would look so fun with the ombre colors all mixed together too!

The Patchwork Flying Geese stash buster quilt pattern is available in the Quilty Love shop.

Patchwork Flying Geese Quilt pattern

Patchwork Flying Geese is the next quilt pattern in the Quilty Love stash buster series. It’s fun, it’s fast, and it’s a great stash quilt! Patchwork Flying Geese is written around fat quarters making it a really great stash buster quilt pattern.

Use a curated fat quarter bundle in your stash or mix one up like I did here with my random Confetti Ombre fat quarters.

The ultimate stash buster quilt pattern

Because Patchwork Flying Geese doesn’t require any background fabric, it’s the ultimate stash buster quilt pattern! I have really enjoyed making the quilts in the Quilty Love Stash Buster series and each one omits background fabrics. It’s been a fun challenge providing these quilt patterns to help you sew through your stash.

Fat Quarter and stash friendly

Most of the stash buster quilt patterns are written around fat quarters. I find that most quilters have fat quarters in their stash or the ability to make fat quarters from half yards or yards. You can also use half yards or 2/3 yards for the larger sizes in this flying geese quilt pattern.

All the quilt sizes

Patchwork Flying Geese quilt pattern includes instructions for eight quilt sizes! I have you covered from baby size to king size. Here are all of the sizes included in the quilt pattern:

  • Baby size
  • Small throw
  • Medium throw
  • Large throw
  • Twin bed quilt
  • Full bed quilt
  • Queen bed quilt
  • King bed quilt

I love being able to provide those bed quilt sizes in my quilt patterns.

Ombre Patchwork Flying Geese quilt

I couldn’t resist trying out this fun and scrappy flying geese quilt using ombre fabrics. I’ve always loved working with ombre fabrics because they add so much interest with very little effort. I find the more I use ombre fabrics, the more I want to use them in everything..haha.

My favorite ombres are anything by VandCo. I love that her ombre line has expanded over the years from just a basic line to so many beautiful colors and added details.

This Ombre Patchwork Flying Geese quilt uses Confetti Ombres. I pulled enough fat quarters from my stash to make a medium throw size. I tried to make sure I had at least two shades of each color. So each set of flying geese uses two different shades. It gives a little more contrast within each flying geese when you aren’t using the same piece of ombre fabric to make your geese.

Fast and fun flying geese quilt

Patchwork Flying Geese is constructed with no waste flying geese. That means you make them four at a time. If you are looking for some tips and tricks when it comes to making no waste flying geese four at a time, check out this blog post!

Straight line machine quilting

I quilted up this ombre Patchwork Flying Geese quilt myself! I’ve been sending most of my quilts out to a long arm quilter over the past year but quilted a couple of these Patchwork Flying Geese quilt samples myself.

This is one of those quilts where the inspiration snuck up on me and I couldn’t wait to make it. So I pushed it ahead of a few other projects I have in the works which meant a shorter turn around time and more quilting by me.

My go to machine quilting is the wavy stitch but I decided to mix it up with straight lines for this ombre flying geese quilt. Funny story… I actually planned to do a one inch diamond shape but I ran out of thread so it became a one inch diagonal line design…haha.

Normally I like my lines spaced closer to 3/4 inch but since I was planning on going back on the opposite diagonal for a diamond shape I spaced these lines at one inch. I didn’t want to wait for more thread so I called it good enough.

The flying geese in this quilt create a seam on the diagonal so you can easily follow them with a walking foot guide. I did end up pre-marking a few lines using the hera marker to help keep my lines nice and straight.

Anytime I do straight line quilting using a walking foot I stitch every other line and then go back and fill in the lines in between. I always like to secure my quilt layers as fast as possible with minimal handling. You could even stitch every third or fourth line and then go back and fill in.

Kona cotton wideback

I finished off this Ombre patchwork Flying Geese quilt with a kona cotton wide back in the color Ash. I recently added this wideback to my growing collection since it’s the perfect neutral gray that works with everything.

Ombre Patchwork Flying Geese Materials

Quilt pattern: Patchwork Flying Geese by Quilty Love
Fabrics: Ombre Confetti fabrics by VandCo
Backing: Kona wideback in the color Ash
Pieced and quilted on my Janome MC6700p
Quilters Dream Batting
505 Spray baste

Patchwork Flying Geese quilts

Check out the other Patchwork Flying Geese quilts on the blog:

Ombre Hexie Pop quilt

Today I’m sharing the ombre Hexie Pop quilt I made a while back. I’m in between projects right now so I’ve been working on updating the blog with all of the quilts.

Hexie Pop is a fast and easy modern half hexie quilt. It is pieced using half hexies and traditional piecing. No Y seams! While there are angles in this quilt, they are pretty simple. I’ve even written the Hexie pop quilt pattern in a way where you won’t lose a single point!

The original Hexie Pop quilt is on the blog here. The Hexie Pop quilt pattern includes a 3 color version like the original and a multi colored version like this ombre one. You can use either three different fabrics or choose a different fabric for each row.

I’m using seven different shades of ombre for this Ombre Hexie Pop.

Ombre Quilt Pattern

Have you noticed yet that I love working with ombre fabrics..haha. My favorite ombre fabrics are the VandCo Ombres. They started out with 20 plain ombre colors but have now expanded to many more colors and variations.

I’m using the VandCo Confetti ombre fabrics for this Hexie Pop quilt. I actually had a full VandCo fabric bundle that I separated into cools and warms. This is the cool version. I am making the warm version of this hexie quilt right now actually!

Once you make a quilt or two using ombre fabrics, you want to try everything in ombre..lol. And I’ve yet to find a quilt that doesn’t look great in ombre fabrics!

Since I’m making the multi color option of Hexie Pop, I chose seven different shades from the VandCo Confetti Ombre Line.

VandCo Ombre colors used

The VandCo ombre confetti colors used left to right are: Avocado, lime green, Mint, Lagoon, teal, turquoise, Indigo

There are so many beautiful VandCo ombre shades to choose from. You can use those exact colors above to make a similar quilt or choose any seven cool shades.

I lined my ombre hexies up light to dark. The variation is pretty subtle so you don’t have to worry about perfection here. But for the most part, I ran the ombre fade light to dark. You could really play around with the arrangement like dark to light back to dark for some cool ombre effects.

Hexie Pop quilt pattern demo

Hexie Pop is actually a pretty fast and easy quilt to make! I recommend you use a hexie ruler (or 8.5 inch triangle ruler) for easiest results. The pattern does include templates though so you can make one without any sort of special ruler.

This IGtv walks you through making the Hexie Pop hexie blocks. In the video I demonstrate how to use each of the rulers or even the template to cut out your pieces for Hexie Pop. Then I walk you through making a block.

Half hexie quilt pattern

Hexie Pop is made up using half hexies which means no Y seams! To be honest, I have never sewn a Y seam before because they just don’t sound very fun. All of my hexie quilts avoid Y seams for this reason.

Instead, Hexie Pop is pieced traditionally using half hexies.

Recommended quilting rulers

Like I’ve already mentioned, I do recommend using rulers when possible because it helps keep accuracy in the cutting step. However, you certainly can skip the rulers and use the templates. Watch this IGtv to see how to use the templates properly.

I’m a pretty minimalist quilter and really don’t like collecting notions and tools. But I do have a few rulers that I use and love.

If you want to keep things simple, get yourself an 8.5 inch (or larger) triangle ruler. You can cut both hexies and triangles with a 60 degree trianlge ruler! I really love this 8.5 inch Quilt in a Day ruler.

Another favorite is the Hex N More ruler because it also has both a hexagon and a triangle ruler. I find myself reaching for my triangle ruler above more often though.

Hexie Pop quilt pattern

The Hexie Pop quilt pattern is available in the Quilty Love shop. Hexie Pop includes all of the quilt sizes from baby size up through bed sizes. It includes instructions for a baby size quilt, throw size quilt, and twin, queen and king bed sized quilts.

Easy beginner friendly hexie quilt pattern

While Hexie Pop has angles, it really is a fast and easy quilt to piece! If you are new to working with angles or hexies, be sure to watch the quick Hexie Pop demo on IGtv and I promise you will be more than ready to tackle this one.

I’ve left extra room in the seams so you don’t lose any points. It really is a forgiving quilt to sew up.

Sew up this modern Hexie quilt using just three different colors or make a multi color version like this ombre one. The quilt pattern includes cutting instructions for both.

Hexie Pop ombre binding

I finished off this modern hexie quilt with an ombre binding. I used some extra VandCo confetti ombre I had in my stash for the binding. It’s VandCo Ombre in the color turquoise.

Hexie Pop backing

This fun and modern Hexie Pop ombre quilt is finished off with a solid grey Peppered Cotton wide back. I’ve been using this wideback quite a bit because it’s a nice neutral that I stocked up on.

Ombre Hexie Pop Long Arm Quilting

I sent this one off to Knot and Thread for quilting. It sat as a quilt top for so long that I gave up on quilting it myself. Knot and thread chose this really cool geometric quilting pantograph that really compliments the hexie shapes.

Now I just need to finish up the warm version of this ombre hexie quilt!

Materials used:

Hexie Pop quilt pattern
VandCo Confetti Ombre fabrics (exact colors listed above)
Kona Cotton background is the color Snow
Binding is VandCo Confetti Ombre in Turquoise
Backing is Peppered Cotton Wideback
Pieced on my Janome MC6700p
Long arm quilted by Knot and Thread