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Crossroads – The kona cotton solids one

I’m excited to share this bright and colorful Kona Cotton Solids Crossroads quilt today!

Crossroads is in the Quilty Love pattern shop here.

Kona Cotton 2021 Desk Calendar

Robert Kaufman is releasing their second annual Kona Cotton Calendar with each month featuring a different colorway from their popular solids fabric line.

This years Kona Calendar is a desk calendar rather than a wall calendar and each month features three different quilts made in that month’s colorway. Two of the quilts are free quilt patterns and the third is a featured quilt by various quilt designers.

You can find a Kona Calendar in the Fat Quarter Shop.

My Crossroads quilt is the designer quilt featured in January!

January is all about those gorgeous pink and red Kona cotton solids. I immediately chose this colorway because I love working with pink and red fabrics.

I used most of the colors featured in January for a nice monochromatic color gradient. You can find the exact Kona colors I used in Crossroads on the swatches below.

Kona Cotton Solids used

Peony, Brt Pink, Melon, Camellia, Salmon, Coral, Peach, med Pink, Azalea, Pomegranate, Bubble Gum, Red, Creamsicle, Candy Pink, Punch, Baby Pink, Primrose, Valentine, Pink, Watermelon, Dusty Peach
Background: Natural, Binding and accent: Pepper, Backing: Peach

Fat quarter friendly quilt pattern

Isn’t that a gorgeous gradient of color!! I almost didn’t want to cut it up since it looked so pretty all stacked up like this. Since I used way more fat quarters than the pattern requires, I just cut strips from each one until I had enough strips. The pattern gives you a total number of strips so it was easy to convert.

These Crossroads quilt blocks ended up being so colorful and vibrant with these solids. I used Kona Cotton Pepper as the accent color in this quilt. The near black color really helps give your eye a place to land as you view this brightly colored quilt.

Kona Cotton Solids Crossroads quilt

It’s been a while since I’ve made a Crossroads quilt so this was a fun one to revisit. The quilt blocks in this quilt are a little smaller which I kind of love in quilts! They take a little more time but don’t worry, most of this quilt is strip pieced for quicker construction.

I like to place my bolder colors as the center plus in this quilt so they stand out but the blocks look interesting with any sort of color placement. Some of my blocks end up looking darker than others and I like the visual interest it all adds.

This Kona Cotton Solids Crossroads is pieced on my Janome MC6700p.

Geometric long arm quilting

I sent this quilt off to Kait of Knot and Thread for some really pretty geometric long arm quilting. I often have her pick something and surprise me since she is so good at pairing quilting designs with the quilt.

Quilt backing and binding

Crossroads is finished off with a solid peach backing and more pepper binding. Kona pepper is my new favorite black solid. It’s reads more charcoal than black and is so pretty.

Of course the little miss jumped in some of these quilt photos. It’s not as easy including her these days as she is so fast and busy..haha.

Here she is again…haha. With her Gatorade bottle sippy and her dad’s socks on. This age is the best!

Kona cotton natural background

I need to tell you about this background fabric! My go to background is Kona Cotton Snow because it’s a nice creamy white.

But this background is Kona natural. It’s the most beautiful cream colored fabric with some natural texture in it. It has little flecks of natural color in it which just adds some extra texture. It may be a new favorite!

You can see some of the natural flecks in the close up below. This was the first time using Kona Natural but it won’t be the last!

This is the first quilt photo on the new fence! (It’s the Slipfence from Home Depot) I’m sure you will be seeing it quite a bit in the future..haha.

Grab your copy of Crossroads in the Quilty Love pattern shop:
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Paper pattern

Supplies:
Kona Cotton Solids (Individually listed in the post)
Backing: Kona Cotton Peach
Binding: Kona Cotton Pepper
Background: Kona Cotton Natural

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.

Coins baby quilt

Today I’m sharing this sweet little Coins baby quilt. I made this one up a while ago using my friend Anna’s beautiful Forage fabric line for Robert Kaufman.

Anna brought some of her Forage fabric to a retreat with friends and we all took home a small bundle. With just a little bit of each fabric, Coins was the perfect quilt pattern to use. Coins is super versatile and makes a great scrap quilt.

Forage is printed on Robert Kaufman linen so I also chose a blue grey linen as the background.

Coins is part of the Quilty Love Simple Series which means it’s a super easy beginner quilt pattern.

Coins also uses all of the precut sizes. Use fat quarters, fat eighths, layer cakes, charms or even a jelly roll for the fast and easy quilt.

This grey Coins is the baby size but the pattern also includes two lap sizes, a twin size and a queen size.

The quilting on this baby quilt is done on my sewing machine. This is the first time trying something different like this. It’s straight lines using the walking foot so super easy. Quilt two lines about 1/2 inch spaced diagonally with a few inches between each set. And then repeat on the other diagonal.

Coins is available in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

Materials:
Forage fabric by Noodlehead for Robert Kaufman
Background: Essex Linen
Quilted and pieced on a Janome MC6700p

Southwest Sunshine – A new modern quilt pattern

I’m excited to share all about the new Southwest Sunshine quilt pattern today!

Southwest Sunshine quilt pattern

Southwest Sunshine is a bright and happy fat quarter friendly quilt pattern. This pattern was designed specifically with the gorgeous new At Then Came June Kona Cotton bundles. My friend Meghan of At Then Came June is a color mixing genius so I’m so thrilled for her to have her very own Kona bundle! It sure was a fun and colorful one to sew up!

The bundles are shipping to stores now. I used all 20 of the colors in the bundle for this large throw size quilt

All the quilt sizes

The Southwest Sunshine quilt pattern includes instructions for all of the quilt sizes! I have have you covered from crib to king sizes.

It includes crib size, throw size, large throw size, twin size, queen size and king size.

Precut and yardage friendly

Southwest Sunshine is designed around fat quarters or 1/4 yards. The quilt pattern includes cutting instructions for fat quarters, 1/4 yards or even 1/2 yards.

I can never resist taking photos during the mix and match stage. They look so pretty all cut and mixed like this. This quilt pattern is one of my favorite kinds to design… the mix and match!

I made the large throw size from the quilt pattern. It’s very generous in size! I really love large quilts so that’s what I tend to make. The pattern does include a smaller throw size though.

Southwest Sunshine uses an accent color for the diamonds through out. This accent color pulls the whole quilt together into one cohesive design. Choose an accent color from the fabrics of the blocks or another one all together.

I used the kona color Gumdrop as my accent and binding. It’s one of my favorite kona colors right now. Who knew I would love a purple so much!?

This quilt was quilted by Knot and Thread Design.

Southwest Sunshine is a big block based quilt pattern. It creates this pretty secondary plus pattern as it goes together. The quilt pattern includes pressing instructions to nest those seams and help them line up better. Even the diamonds are nested so they come out perfectly.

I also made the crib size version of this pattern up in prints from my stash. I’ll share that in a separate blog post.

You can grab your copy of Southwest Sunshine in the pattern shop.

Materials Used:
Kona Cotton At Then Came June solids bundle
Background: Kona Snow
Accent and Binding: Kona Gumdrop
Backing: Carolyn Friedlander Wideback

Pieced on a Janome MC6700p

Southwest Sunshine quilt pattern by Emily of quiltylove.com. Modern solids quilt pattern.
Southwest Sunshine quilt pattern by Emily of quiltylove.com. Modern solids quilt pattern.
Southwest Sunshine quilt pattern by Emily of quiltylove.com. Modern solids quilt pattern.