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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.

I’ll link up to the Kona Cotton Desk calendar when they are available to order.

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:
PDF automatic download
Paper pattern

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

Sweet Summertime Quilt – the solids version

Today’s blog post is the solids Sweet Summertime quilt. The Sweet Summertime quilt pattern is in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

I made this Sweet Summertime quilt up last spring using these bright and happy Kona Cotton solids.

Colors are: Ice Peach, Melon, Creamsicle, Mango, Zucchini, Cactus, Limelight, Mint, Aqua, Jamaica, Lagoon and Pacific

The background is a fun black and white polka dot print by Jen Kingwell for Moda that seems to be out of print.

These colors sure left a pretty pile of chain piecing.

Sweet Summertime quilt pattern

Sweet Summertime is a block based fat quarter friendly quilt pattern. This is a mix and match fat quarter quilt. Those are some of my favorite quilts to design because I love starting with a fat quarter bundle.

All the quilt sizes

Sweet Summertime includes instructions for a baby size quilt, a throw size quilt and a twin size quilt.

I would say this is an intermediate quilt pattern or for the ambitious beginner quilter.

The quilting on this solids quilt is done by Knot and Thread Design. I love this modern wave stitch. It looks good on everything!

The backing is a Carolyn Friedlander Widescreen in the color Niagara. It’s a a wideback which means no piecing. I absolutely love using wideback fabrics.

Sweet Summertime quilt pattern

Materials used:
Kona Cotton Colors:
Ice Peach
Melon
Creamsicle
Mango
Zucchini
Cactus
Limelight
Mint
Aqua
Jamaica
Lagoon
Pacific
Polka dot background is Just a Speck by Jen Kingwell Designs for Moda (out of print)
Carolyn Friedlander widescreen in Niagara wideback
Black and white striped binding
Pieced on a Janome MC6700P

  • Sweet Summertime solids quilt pattern by Emily of quiltylove.com
  • Sweet Summertime solids quilt pattern by Emily of quiltylove.com
  • Sweet Summertime solids quilt pattern by Emily of quiltylove.com
  • Sweet Summertime solids quilt pattern by Emily of quiltylove.com
  • Sweet Summertime solids quilt pattern by Emily of quiltylove.com
  • Sweet Summertime solids quilt pattern by Emily of quiltylove.com
  • Sweet Summertime solids quilt pattern by Emily of quiltylove.com

Flying – A solids flying geese quilt

Flying is a brand new flying geese quilt pattern available in the Quilty Love pattern Shop.

Flying quilt pattern – a simple flying geese quilt

Flying is a simple flying geese quilt pattern that is quick and easy to make. My life has gotten a little busier these days chasing a very busy toddler and this newest quilt pattern definitely reflects that.

Quick and easy quilts are much more satisfying to make these days than longer tedious quilts with the limited sewing time.

All the quilt sizes

Flying includes instructions to make a crib size, throw size, twin size and queen size quilt. The layout of each quilt size stays the same and the flying geese get bigger with each size.

I’m excited to offer a twin size with this quilt pattern since those can be harder to find. This will make such a cute twin size quilt too. So many options to match bedroom styles.

Yardage quilt

Flying uses six different solids or prints (seven for the twin size) and a background fabric. Choose six of your favorite prints from your favorite fabric line or mix and match yardage from your stash.

I was able to pull all of the colors for this quilt from my solids fabric stash.

Solids used in this quilt

This solids Flying quilt is made up using Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton solids in the colors shown above:
Pacific, Mediterranean, Denim, Salmon, Mango and Champagne

Flying Geese Quilt pattern

Flying geese are one of the most common quilting shapes used and a good technique for quilters to learn. This flying geese quilt pattern uses the four at a time flying geese method making it super fast to make and a no waste method. No cutting off and tossing any corners on this quilt.

The pattern includes detailed instructions to walk you through the four at a time flying geese quilt technique.

The babes is not the easiest to photograph these days but she sure is fun 🙂 Her short attention span makes for some super quick photo shoots..haha.

Wavy stitch quilting

This throw size Flying quilt is quilted up using the wavy stitch on my Janome sewing machine. It’s basically straight line quilting using the wavy stitch. I use a stitch length of 3 and a width of 7.

Flying is available in the Quilty Love Pattern shop as a PDF instant download or a printed booklet.

Materials used

Kona Cotton colors:
Pacific
Mediterranean
Denim
Salmon
Mango
Champagne
Spray basted with 505
Pieced and Quilted on a Janome MC6700P

Star Fall Quilt – A simple star quilt pattern

Star Fall is a brand new quilt pattern in the Quilty Love shop! Star Fall is a simple yet bold sawtooth star quilt pattern.

Yardage quilt

Star Fall is a nice quick and easy quilt pattern that uses 5 different solids or prints or even your scrap stash. The baby sizes uses 1/4 yards or fat quarters and the throw size uses half yards.

3 quilt sizes

Star Fall includes instructions for a crib size, throw size and a king size. The star quilt block expands with each size so the layout is the exact same for all three quilt sizes.

Solids Star Fall quilt

This throw size version of the Star Fall quilt uses Robert Kaufman solids:
Cypress, Azure, Pacific, Curry and Ice Frappe.

The green on the end of this quilt is Kona Cotton in the color Cypress and it may be a new favorite! It’s such a beautiful color green.

Wavy quilting

Star Fall is quilted up using the serpentine stitch on my Janome sewing machine. This stitch is so good! It looks good on every single quilt and its super easy to do. It’s basically straight line quilting using a walking foot and the machine makes the waves.

For this quilt the lines are spaced at one inch. The stitch length is 3 and the width is 6.

When quilting straight lines I like to first quilt every other line (so two inches apart) and then go back through and fill in the lines in between. I start on one edge and work all the way to the other edge without flipping the quilt. You could also start in the middle do half the quilt and then flip and repeat on the other side.

The little lady made her appearance during this quilt photo shoot :).

Quilt backing

The backing fabric is a Basic Grey print by Moda. It’s from the Metropolis line. I really love using a neutral backing for quilts that are full of color or pattern on the front. The black backing keeps this star quilt super modern and fun.

Binding

This quilt is finished off with a 1/4 inch black and white striped binding. It’s been a while since I’ve used a striped binding so I thought it would be a good way to finish off this quilt.

This is the throw size version of this quilt. It’s a nice generous throw size. The pattern includes a queen size and crib size version as well.

Star Fall is available in the Quilty Love pattern shop as a PDF instant download or a paper booklet.

Materials:


Kona Cotton:
Cypress
Azure
Pacific
Curry
Ice Frappe
Backing: Metropolis Basic Grey
Binding: 1/4in stripe
Spray basted using 505
Pieced and Quilted on a Janome MC6700P