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December 19, 2022
Cottage Love Quilt - a Throw in Daisy Fields! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I'm sharing this relaxing blue, teal, and gold Cottage Love quilt!  This fabric collection is Daisy Fields by Riley Blake, and it's perfect for Cottage Love.

Cottage Love is a quick and easy pattern with a scalloped edge created around the sides of the quilt.  The pattern includes many quilt sizes.  

The Cottage Love quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.


The Cottage Love Quilt Pattern


The Cottage Love quilt pattern is quick and easy and includes many quilt sizes and is very precut friendly.  If the pressing instructions included in the pattern are ...

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December 16, 2022
Cottage Love Quilt Pattern - a Throw in Sweet Picnic! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I'm sharing a brand new quilt pattern - Cottage Love - a quick and easy design made from a variety of precuts or stash fabrics.  Every size you could want to make is included in the quilt pattern - 7 in all - and it's so fun to sew!  

With so many precut options that work for this pattern, this is a great stash quilt.  

The Cottage Love quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.


Cottage Love Quilt Pattern


Cottage Love quilt pattern includes all of the sizes - 7 in all - so no matter what size of quilt ...

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December 14, 2022
Formation Throw Quilt in Timber! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I'm sharing more pictures of a Formation quilt in the Throw size, made with Timber by Moda Fabrics.  This modern fabric collection includes black, grays, rusty golds, and green, with outdoorsy prints in trees, tents, ginghams, stripes, and tone-on-tones.  It's a perfect fabric collection for Formation!

This quilt pattern is quick and easy with large blocks that are made four at a time.

The Formation quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.


Formation Quilt Pattern


Formation is a flying geese quilt pattern, using large geese, so it's quick and easy to make.  You ...

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December 9, 2022
Through My Window Throw Quilt in Painterly Petals! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I'm sharing a Through My Windows star quilt I made this summer!  This cute star quilt is sewn up with Painterly Petals, a bold watercolor fabric collection by Robert Kaufman with a Nautical Kona background and pindot sashing.

Through My Window is one of 14 star patterns in the Busy Hands Quilts pattern line.  Click here to see all of our star quilt patterns.

The Through My Windows quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.


Painterly Petals Fabrics


These bright and bold watercolor fabrics are from an older Painterly Petals fabric collection by Robert Kaufman ...

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November 30, 2022
One Fine Day Picket Fence Throw Quilt from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I'm sharing another peek at a Picket Fence quilt one of my sewists made last year.  This popular quilt is sewn up with One Fine Day by Bonnie and Camille.  This fabric collection looks so nice and really sparkles against the navy blue background.

Picket Fence is the second pattern I wrote back in 2015, and it's still super popular today.  As a side note, pattern number 93 is in the works as we speak, phew!  

This is the original pieced picket block pattern, and there are several more in the Busy Hands Quilts line.  Other patterns ...

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November 21, 2022
Quilty Cabins Quilt Pattern - a Throw Quilt in Sweet Picnic! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I'm sharing this log cabin heart Quilty Cabins quilt!  This is the quilt I made to test the pattern, and I can't believe I haven't shown it to you yet!  Quilty Cabins is a fun pattern to make. :)

This quilt is made with a fat quarter bundle of Sweet Picnic, a lovely blend of purples, teal, orangey-reds and gold with a creamy white background.  The prints are a variety of florals, ginghams, cherries, and butterflies.  

Quilty Cabins comes in a ton of quilt sizes and is fun to sew up.  Even with the number of pieces ...

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November 12, 2022
Kindred Throw Size Quilt Kits in Rainbow! from Busy Hands Quilts




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October 27, 2022
A New Quilt Pattern - Quilty Cabins Quilt Pattern - in the Red, White, and Blues of Picadilly! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I'm sharing the Quilty Cabins quilt pattern!  Quilty Cabins is brand new and in the shop today.  We've sewn up several samples of this timeless yet modern log cabin heart quilt, and today I'm sharing the Americana version in Picadilly!

Quilty Cabins is an easy log cabin heart quilt pattern.  The Quilty Cabins pattern features hearts centered inside log cabin quilt blocks.  Piecing is very simple as I've broken it down into step-by-step instructions, and before you know it those seemingly random pieces become a heart in the middle of the blocks.

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October 26, 2022
A Scrappy Life Quilt in Love Notes by Moda Fabrics! from Busy Hands Quilts

Love Notes by Moda Fabrics is such a sweet fabric collection, and it looks great in the A Scrappy Life quilt pattern.  The border in this pattern is a great use of the larger print in a collection.

A Scrappy Life includes four sizes - Throw, Twin, Queen, and King - and is fat quarter friendly.  This quilt pattern includes strip piecing to speed up the process.


The A Scrappy Life quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.




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October 10, 2022
Kindred Throw Quilt Pattern - Another look at the Blues, Aqua and Yellow One! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I'm sharing the Kindred quilt in cool tones.  I have lots of pictures that I haven't shared yet, so here we go!

Kindred is an easy quilt pattern that goes together so nicely.  The quilt pattern includes pressing instructions so all of the seams nest, which makes assembling the quilt top a breeze.

The Throw size Kindred quilt uses only 15 fat quarters.

The Kindred quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.


The Kindred Quilt Pattern


Kindred is an easy quilt pattern that combines HST blocks with strips to create the blocks.  The design ...

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August 31, 2022
All Fat Quarter PDF Quilt Patterns 25% off Wednesday and Thursday! from Busy Hands Quilts

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August 9, 2022
Through My Window - A New Quilt Pattern - Charm Squares, Layer Cakes, or Fat Quarters! from Busy Hands Quilts

Meet Through My Window - a star quilt pattern, looking at twinkling stars through the panes of a window.  This is a really fun quilt to make!  

This new quilt pattern includes 5 sizes - Baby, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King.

The Through My Window quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.



Precut Friendly Quilt Pattern


Through My Window is a very versatile pattern to use your stash.  You can use precut charm squares, layer cakes, fat quarters, or cut fabric from you scraps, of course.  Using fat quarters results in less variety in the prints, but they are ...

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July 28, 2022
Brightly Fat Eighth/Fat Quarter Quilt from A Quilting Life

Brightly Fat Eighth/Fat Quarter Quilt featured by Top US Quilt Blog, A Quilting Life

Hello, friends! Today I’m sharing my final new Simply Delightful quilt pattern, the Brightly Fat Eighth/Fat Quarter Quilt. I designed this quilt using lots of different prints from Simply Delightful and also knew it would be a great pattern for a two- or three-color quilt. So, I made a blue and teal version first and […]

The post Brightly Fat Eighth/Fat Quarter Quilt appeared first on A Quilting Life.

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July 27, 2022
Oh Happy Day! Quilt in Petal Power by Moda Fabrics! from Busy Hands Quilts


This is Oh Happy Day! made in Moda's new fabric collection, Petal Power!  Isn't it super sweet?!? 

Oh Happy Day! is a super quick and easy quilt pattern that uses fat quarters.  The large pieces make the quilt go together quickly, and it's a great stash-busting quilt pattern for your fat quarter stash.  

The Oh Happy Day! quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.



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July 26, 2022
Happy Go Lucky Fat Quarter Quilt from A Quilting Life

Happy Go Lucky Fat Quarter Quilt featured by Top US Quilt Blog, A Quilting Life

Hello, friends! Today I’m excited to share my brand-new Happy Go Lucky Fat Quarter Quilt featuring our Simply Delightful fabrics. Friends, this might be my most favorite scrappy quilt ever–and while it’s gorgeous using one collection, it’s also perfectly made for your favorite scraps. Happy Go Lucky Fat Quarter Quilt Happy Go Lucky Quilt Details […]

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July 22, 2022
Hand Picked Rainbow Baby Quilt + Quilt Kits! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I'm sharing the Hand Picked rainbow quilt!  This cute quilt might be one of my favorite quilts that I've ever made.  It's looks scrappy (though it's a single fabric collection).  It's a rainbow.  It's cute.  It checks all of the boxes!!

The Hand Picked quilt pattern works great for using up your scrap bins or precuts.  The pattern is fairly quick with strip piecing, too.

The Hand Picked quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.

And ...  we have quilt kits too!  Each quilt kit will make two quilts - a Baby ...

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July 19, 2022
Fresh Flowers Fat Quarter Quilt from A Quilting Life

Fresh Flowers Fat Quarter Quilt featured by Top US Quilt Blog, A Quilting Life

Hello, friends! Today I’m sharing my new Fresh Flowers Fat Quarter Quilt in our Simply Delightful fabrics. The Fresh Flowers quilt was the first quilt I designed for this collection–I had this fun twist on a star-flower block on my list for a little while, and Simply Delightful seemed like the perfect fabrics to create […]

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June 27, 2022
Kindred Throw Quilt in Notting Hill! from Busy Hands Quilts


It's exciting to share another quilt in Notting Hill - one of my favorite fabric collections!  I just love the blend of colors together, very softly muted but still with a lot of color; with florals, tone-on-tones, ginghams, and plaids.  It's so yummy!

Notting Hill is featured in a brand-new quilt pattern called Kindred.  This is a fat quarter friendly quilt pattern that features HSTs and log cabin-ish quilt blocks with accent fabrics that create secondary designs across the quilt top.

The Kindred quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.


So Many Quilt Sizes!


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June 23, 2022
Kindred Quilt Pattern - The Cool Palette! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I'm excited to share the Kindred quilt pattern!  Kindred is the newest fat quarter friendly quilt pattern in the Busy Hands Quilts pattern line.

Kindred is an easy quilt pattern with secondary designs that catch the eye across the quilt top.  I didn't know this would happen until I sewed the quilt top; it didn't show up on the computer screen.

The Kindred quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.


Kindred Quilt Pattern


The Kindred quilt pattern is a fat quarter stash-busting quilt pattern.  This color combination of blues, aquas, greens, and yellows ...

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June 22, 2022
NEW Shell Rummel fabric and quilt kit! This one’s GORGEOUS … from Quilt Addicts Anonymous

It’s no secret that I love everything Shell Rummel creates.

We have collaborated many times and I’ve made a quilt out of every one of her collections except one that came out early in the pandemic when I trying to figure out how to homeschool a kindergartener, care for a newborn and run a business.

My life hasn’t slowed down yet, but that collection is waiting for me when it does.

Shell’s latest line with FreeSpirit Natural Affinity is absolutely gorgeous, filled with beautiful serene scenes from the seashore. The colors are calming and an absolute ...

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