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Ruby Star Society

Expanding Stars Quilt – The Ruby Star Society One

This Ruby Star Society Expanding Stars quilt just might be my very favorite quilt to share with you all! Well it’s for sure up there in the top 10…ha.

Expanding Stars quilt pattern. Modern Star quilt by Emily of Quiltylove.com.

Ruby Star Society Expanding Stars Quilt

When Ruby Star Society reached out about using this Expanding Stars quilt pattern for an upcoming look book I was thrilled! I couldn’t wait to sew up these beautiful brand new Ruby Star Society fabrics.

Ruby Star Society Zip, Pop fabric line by Rashida Coleman-Hale for Moda fabrics.

Ruby Star Society Fabrics

This star quilt uses this Pop, Zip fabric line by Rashida Colman-Hale for Ruby Star Society. It’s the cutest assortment of whimsical stars, animal balloons and stripes.

The colors are bold and fun and created the most bright and playful Expanding Stars quilt.

Expanding Stars is a quick and easy quilt to sew up. This one was made up in a weekend. This Ruby Star Expanding Stars is out on tour right now…ha.. It’s being borrowed out to quilt shops as displays and making its rounds at different quilting markets.

Expanding Stars quilt pattern. Modern Star quilt by Emily of Quiltylove.com.

Expanding Stars quilt

The Expanding Stars quilt pattern can be found in the Quilty Love shop.

The quilt pattern includes instructions for a baby size, small throw, large throw, queen and king quilt.

This Ruby Star Expanding Stars quilt is the small throw. It’s still a generous size quilt at 60in square.

Expanding Stars is a quick and easy quilt pattern that is easy enough for a beginner to tackle and quick enough to sew up in a weekend.

Ruby Star Society Expanding Stars quilt on bed.
Expanding Stars quilt pattern. Modern Star quilt by Emily of Quiltylove.com.
Ruby Star Society Expanding Stars quilt on quilt ladder.
Expanding Stars quilt pattern. Modern Star quilt by Emily of Quiltylove.com.

Machine quilting

This Expanding Stars quilt is quilted with my favorite wavy stitch. It’s basically just straight line quilted using a fancy stitch on my Janome. It’s the easiest quilting ever and always looks good. I like to space my lines no more than 1in apart. I believe these are one inch spaced lines.

The wavy lines are quilted the exact same way as the multi stitch zig zags as shown in this quilting tutorial.

Expanding Stars quilt pattern. Modern Star quilt by Emily of Quiltylove.com.
Big and bold Expanding Stars quilt using Ruby Star Society fabrics.

Modern Star quilt

This Ruby Star Expanding Stars quilt sure turned out beautiful and modern. This quilt is a fun one to sew up as it really highlights the fabrics you choose. I’ve made quite a few now and you can find them on the blog here.

Expanding Stars quilt pattern. Modern Star quilt by Emily of Quiltylove.com.
Expanding Stars quilt pattern. Modern Star quilt by Emily of Quiltylove.com.
Expanding Stars quilt pattern. Modern Star quilt by Emily of Quiltylove.com.

Find Expanding Stars in the Quilty Love shop.

Expanding Stars quilt pattern

Materials:
Fabrics: Ruby Star Society Zip, Pop by Rashida Coleman-Hale
Batting: Quilters Dream Select
Spray basted with Odif 505
Pieced and quilted 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

Hexie Pop quilt pattern-A modern Hexie quilt pattern

The Hexie pop quilt pattern is a new modern hexie quilt that I’m so excited to share! It’s available in the shop today.

Hexie Pop Quilt Pattern

Hexie Pop is a fast and easy yardage quilt pattern. This one was sketched up a while ago but never made. It was revisited recently and as soon as I plugged in these brand new Spark basics by Ruby Star Society I had to make it up.

Spark is hitting stores in July! Such a beautiful basics fabric. I decided to make two quilts with these fabrics. One in the cool tones and one in the warm tones.

Half hexie quilt

Hexie Pop is a half hexie quilt which means it uses traditional piecing. No Y seams for this one!

Ruler recommendations

I recommend this hexie ruler or the HexNmore ruler. You can even use a 8.5in triangle ruler like this one. A template is provided but rulers really are much easier to use.

Half Hexie ruler | HexNmore | 8.5in Triangle ruler

I used the HexNmore ruler because I like the easy cut corners it provides. Makes piecing angles so so easy! You can see those corners in the cut out hexies below

Yardage quilt pattern

The Hexie Pop quilt pattern is a yardage quilt. There are a couple of variations. Make it with just three different fabrics or make each row a different print. The quilt pattern includes instructions for both options

Hexie Pop quilt size

Hexie Pop includes all of the quilt sizes! It includes instructions for a baby, throw, twin, queen and king size! So far I’ve made up four different throw sizes. I can’t wait to try the baby size!

Fast and easy quilt pattern

Hexie Pop really does go together nice and fast! I was able to make up an entire throw size top in just a day. If you follow the pressing instructions it’s super slick and no pins are needed :) The seams will all nest together if you follow those instructions.

These two quilts were quilted up by Kaitlyn of Knot and Thread. I let her choose which designs to use and they turned out so fun!

As I’ve mentioned already, I’ve made quite a few of these fun hexie quilts ;) I’ll be blog these two below soon! It turned out so pretty in the VandCo Ombres.

Materials Used:
Hexie Pop quilt pattern
Spark by Ruby Star Society
Background: Grid by Ruby Star Society
Hexie ruler: HexNmore
Pieced on a Janome MC6700p
Quilted by Knot and Thread