Star Quilt

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.

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.

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

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.

Ruby Star Society Expanding Stars quilt on quilt ladder.

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.

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.

Find Expanding Stars in the Quilty Love shop.

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 Stars Quilt – The solid baby ones

The Quilty Stars quilt pattern includes a nice and easy baby size quilt. Quilty Stars is the brand new Quilty Love pattern available in the shop.

Quilty Stars quilt pattern by Emily of quiltylove.com

Use solids or prints

I used my leftover At Then Came June Kona bundles for two Quilty Stars baby quilts. I separated the colors out into two different versions. This baby size doesn’t need a lot of fabric so it was great for these leftover pieces.

Beginner friendly quilt pattern

Quilty Stars is a good beginner friendly quilt pattern. The measurements leave plenty of room for trimming up perfectly sized half square triangles. The trimmings of these two solid quilts were too pretty not to photograph :)

The original Quilty Stars Quilt is made up using prints from my scrap bins so I wanted to see how this quilt might look in solids. It turned out so fun in these range of colors. Each quilt sticks with two colorways to keep it a bit more cohesive.

All the quilt sizes

The Quilty Stars quilt pattern includes instructions for a baby size, throw size, twin size and king size. It also includes instructions for a solid background like these quilts or a super scrappy background.