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Night Stars Quilt – A bold star quilt pattern

I’m so excited to share this new pattern today! The Night Stars quilt pattern is brand new and in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

Night Stars Quilt Pattern

This quilt pattern is something a little different for me! The stars are no surprise along with the repeating blocks ;) But the bold colors are! Night stars is written around using yardage but also includes instructions for fat quarters.

Choose 5 of your favorite colors to make up this bold and striking quilt. Night Stars was designed with Christmas in mind so it will make for the prettiest Christmas quilt. Check out the Christmas color mock ups below.

I used the Alison Glass Kaleidoscope fabrics for my version. These are a cotton linen. I really love quilting with linens because of that extra texture but definitely know they behave differently than cottons. This blog post talks about quilting with linen.

Using the bold blue as a the background for this quilt was such a fun change! I tend to stick with whites so much mostly because I always have it on hand. I definitely want to branch out more with color like this.

Colors and yardage used for this throw size:
Lichen – 3/8 yard
Goldenrod – 5/8 yard
Daisy – 2 1/2 yards
Opal – 1 1/3 yards
Sapphire – 2 yards
Binding is Goldenrod.

Kona Colors
If you want to stick with Robert Kaufman Kona colors, here are the match ups:
A-Windsor, B-Azure (or Aqua), C-Ivory, D-Curry, E-Mustard

Night Stars makes for the prettiest bed quilt! Instructions include up to queen size. It was so much fun styling this quilt on my daughters bed. It looks so cozy on a bed.

Night Stars quilt pattern details

Night Stars uses yardage or fat quarters.
The quilt pattern includes instructions for a baby size, a generous throw size and a queen size.
This is an intermediate pattern as it includes making quarter square triangles, half square triangles and flying geese.

Quilting

Night Stars was quilted by my local quilter in this pretty loopy swoopy design. Ha… I have no idea how to describe quilt designs. I wanted something a little more flowing to go with the sharp points of the stars in this quilt. This quilt design gave it so much gorgeous texture.

Christmas Color Mock ups

I’m including some Christmas color mock ups in this post to give you some ideas. The PDF pattern includes a coloring page to plan out your own version.

The Robert Kaufman Kona color match ups are listed below each image.

Holly – Asparagus – Rich Red – Graphite – Shadow
Cardinal (or red) – Azure – Silver – Caribbean – Cardinal

Rich red – Palm – Shadow – Curry – Mustard
Wine – Red – Silver – Forest – Old Green

Spruce – Cypress – Poppy – Salmon – Shadow
Forest – Leaf – Silver – Graphite – Shadow

Wine – Red – Shadow – Aqua – Everglade
Retro Colors! Candy Green – Azure – Lipstick – Primrose – Punch

Teal blue – Red – Silver – Peacock – Teal blue

Find Night Stars in the Quilty Love Shop.

Triangle Peaks – The Rifle Paper Co. one

Today I’m sharing another Triangle Peaks quilt. This time it’s a Triangle Peaks Rifle Paper Co quilt.

Fast and Easy Triangle quilt

Triangle Peaks is probably my favorite Quilty Love pattern to make. It’s a fast and easy triangle quilt that looks good in any fabric.

For this version of Triangle Peaks I used Rifle Paper Co’s Amalfi line with Cotton and Steel. I love how the bigger triangles in this quilt really show of the vibrant fabrics in this line. This line has all of my favorites: blues, corals and greens!

Triangle Peaks Quilt Pattern

The Triangle Peaks quilt pattern is a fast and easy one. It goes together using 60 degree triangles. I recommend this triangle ruler. A good triangle ruler is going to make all the difference! In fact, triangles are pretty easy to put together when using a good triangle ruler.

Triangle Peaks includes instructions for a baby size, throw size, twin size and a queen size. This Rifle paper co version is the throw size. Measuring at 56in x 72in it makes for the perfect size throw.

This Amalfi fabric line includes some fun metallics in some of its fabrics. This line is a such a good color combo and I love how these big triangles really show off those prints.

Kaitlyn of Knot and Thread quilted this one in a modern loops design. The loops pair nicely with the sharp angles of the triangles in this quilt.

The smaller accent triangles in this quilt are an assortment of Robert Kaufman Essex Linen. They add some subtle color and texture.

This Triangle Peaks quilt is finished off with a bright backing from the Rifle Paper co line and bound with a modern wider stripe. I don’t think I’ll ever tire of using a striped fabric for quilt binding!

Triangle Peaks is one of my go to quilt patterns since it sews up beautifully in solids and prints. It’s one of the more popular quilt patterns in the Quilty Love line up.

Materials used:
Triangle Peaks quilt pattern
Amalfi fabrics from Rifle Paper Co. for Cotton and Steel
Striped black and white binding
Background is Kona Cotton in White
Pieced on a Janome MC6700p

Quilty Trees Baby Quilt – The playful baby one

Quilty Trees is the newest quilt pattern in the Quilty Love shop. Today I’m sharing a baby Quilty Trees quilt.

Quilty Trees Quilt Pattern

The original Quilty Trees quilt is blogged here. The obvious choice for a tree quilt is using green fabrics. But I thought it would be super fun to see what this tree quilt looked like sewn up in these playful Ruby Star Society fabrics.

I’m lovingly referring to this one as the Dr. Seuss tree quilt. This is the baby sizes of the Quilty Trees pattern.

Ruby Star Society Fabrics

These fun and colorful fabrics are an assortment of Ruby Star Society. I had some leftover fat quarters from a previous project that I mixed together for a fun and whimsical tree quilt. I’m really loving these new fabric lines that the Ruby Star designers are coming up with.

Stash friendly quilt pattern

Quilty Trees is yet another quilt pattern in the stash/ scrap friendly Quilty Love line up. Each block uses a minimal amount of fabric making it the perfect stash quilt or scrap quilt.

Quilty Trees quilt sizes

The Quilty Trees quilt pattern includes instructions for a baby size, throw size, twin size and queen/king size. It has instructions for the blocks you see in this quilt and for a scrappier version.

My little miss crawled into my shot while I was photographing this quilt so I decided to put her to work as a quilt model ;). I absolutely adore how her tiny little fingers are playing with the quilt binding above.

Speaking of the binding… I used a wider black and white stripe to keep this quilt fun and modern. I added a little binding flair by using a scrap of orange fabric to join the binding strips.

This Quilty Trees baby quilt has a pieced backing. I rarely piece quilt backings like this. Mostly because I don’t enjoy piecing backings…ha, and I have a hard time keeping the backing lines straight when basting. But with this being a smaller size quilt I went for it. It was a good way to use up some of this fabric and it makes for a fun backing!

Wavy straight line quilting

I went with my favorite wavy line quilting for this Quilty Trees baby quilt. I needed to quilt it up quickly so this is my go to quilting stitch. It’s done exactly like the zig zag quilting tutorial found here but with the wavy stitch instead of the multi stitch zig zag.

You can find those scrap bins here. They are awesome for scraps! These are the larger size.

You can find Quilty Trees in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

Materials Used:
Ruby Star Society
Background: Ruby Star Society Grid
Binding: Black and white stripe
Batting: Quilters Dream Cotton/Poly
Pieced and quilted on a Janome MC6700p
505 Spray baste
Aurifil thread

Quilty Trees – A scrappy friendly tree quilt pattern

The Quilty Trees quilt pattern is now available in the Quilty Love shop!

Who doesn’t love a good tree quilt?! Quilty Trees is a new addition to the scrappy quilt pattern line up. Use fat quarters or fat eighths from your stash or use up your scraps for this adorable tree quilt.

This Quilty Trees quilt is made up of the following fabrics:
C+S Scout
Michael Miller Pine
Michael Miller Aspargus
Michael Miller Loden
Michael Miller Olive
Michael Miller Grass
Michael Miller Avocado
Michael Miller Sage
Michael Miller Green Tea
Kitchen Window woven in Avocado
I purchased all of these fabrics at Stitch Supply Co.

Scrappy Friendly

You guys are loving the scrappy friendly quilt patterns and this one is just that! Dig through those scrap bins and make yourself an fun and modern tree quilt. You can find the other scrappy quilt patterns in the Quilty Love line up here.

All the quilt sizes

Quilty Trees includes instructions for all of the quilt sizes! Make a baby size, a throw sizes, a twin size and a Queen or King size.

The quilt shown here is the throw size. Scroll to the bottom for a cute and playful baby size.

Beginner Friendly

Quilty Trees is very beginner friendly. This tree quilt pattern is easy to follow along for the beginner quilter. It’s very forgiving since there are no seams to line up.

Use your stash!

This quilt pattern is super versatile since you can use fat eighths, fat quarters, 10in squares or your scraps! The cutting instructions are included in the quilt pattern for each size precut.

Quick and easy

Quilty Trees is a quick and easy quilt to make up! Most quilters will be able to have this one done in a day or a weekend.

I pulled a variety of solid greens for my version of Quilty Trees. I added the gingham and a subtle speckled print for some fun contrast.

This quilt is quilted on my machine using my favorite wavy stitch. It quilted up the exact same way as the multi zig zag stitch but uses the wavy stitch instead.

I kept this quilt soft and modern by using this subtle cream fabric for the backing and binding. I tend to use the backing as the binding often since it is the perfect way to use up all of that excess fabric from the backing. This quilt reminds me a little of the farmhouse style that is popular right now.

Make it scrappy

The Quilty Trees quilt pattern includes a full on scrappy option too! The instructions are included to make scrappy version using your scrap stash. I’m excited to make up this quilt below using my low volume scraps as the background and my greens as the trees.

Use multiple squares for the trees or use one fabric for the trees and a have a scrappy background.

Below is the colorful and playful Ruby Star baby version of Quilty Trees. I’m lovingly referring to this one as the Dr. Seuss tree quilt :)

Find Quilty Trees in the Quilty Love Shop.