Exciting news! The newest Pixel Heart Quilt pattern by Daydreams of Quilts is out now! Discount code and links are below.
If you’ve been following me for a while you know I love vacationing in the Rocky Mountains. It only made sense for me to design a quilt that expresses my great love for this place. My quilt features mountains, pine trees, blue sky and a turquoise lake all within a Pixel Heart.
Mountains Pixel Heart Quilt designed and pieces by Daydreams of Quilts.
This quilt measures 60” x 60” and it’s a great way to use up scraps and small cuts of fabric.
Mountains Pixel Heart Quilt by Daydreams of Quilts.
Use code MOUNTBLOG for 30% off during release week until July 31, 2022.
Close up of trees and mountains inside the pixel heart.
This PDF pattern is available on our website and in our Etsy shop.
Mountains Pixel Heart Quilt by Daydreams of Quilts.
Christmas Lattice Quilt with optional hot cocoa appliqué by Daydreams of Quilts.
This quilt looks great in red and green for Christmas but would also be perfect in other complementary colour schemes for year round quilts.
Hot cocoa is trending right now in a huge way so I designed these cute little appliqué hot cocoa mugs with hearts on them to add to the quilt if you wish. Inside the PDF file there are two additional quilt layout diagrams with different placement options for the mugs.
Hot cocoa appliqué templates are included in the pattern.
I drew the mugs in EQ7 (quilt design software) and I love how they turned out! The templates are included in the pattern.
Hot cocoa appliqué in the Christmas Lattice Quilt.
I made my test blocks into a cute runner for my hot cocoa bar that I set up on the top of my deep freeze. Hot cocoa bars are the in thing right now according to my kids who have been thoroughly enjoying ours.
Hot cocoa bar runner by Daydreams of Quilts.
Another idea is so sew a bed runner for the foot of a bed at the holidays. Just add a few more blocks to the runner above.
Find this pattern in my Etsy shop here: Christmas Lattice Quilt Thank you for visiting my blog today! 🙂
This pattern includes instructions for a monochromatic baby quilt 36″ x 48″ and a rainbow large throw 60″ x 72″. There are 11 pages including written instructions, computer diagrams and colour photos.
This pattern uses two layer cakes! And you don’t have to buy additional background fabric. That’s my kinda pattern! The Angular Rectangular pattern is the newest PDF quilt pattern from Daydreams of Quilts and it’s currently 20% off!
“Angular Rectangular” designed and Pieced by Daydreams of Quilts.
I used a layer cake of “Honeymoon” and a layer cake of “Paper Bandana” from the original group of Cotton + Steel designers for my quilt. This shows that your layer cakes don’t have to be the same but can be coordinating.
The pattern includes computer diagrams, written instructions, photographs and a colouring page. Find it here.
The cover quilt is also available for sale and is part of our current 20% off sale! This is a nice throw size at 59″ x 64″.
There are sloths on this quilt and this is not the environment you would find them in but one can dream. This quilt is also available for sale 20% off.
This new Union Jack pattern is the latest to be released in our Etsy shop. I have been wanting to create this quilt for quite a while and finally felt that my Foundation Paper Piecing skills were up to snuff.
Union Jack in a Pixel Heart Quilt by Daydreams of quilts.
I love the Union Jack. It was the original flag of Canada until we got our Dominion of Canada flag which was then replaced by the Maple Leaf flag in 1965. As a teenager in the late 80’s / early 90’s I was a major British heavy metal band fan and attended many concerts thanks to my high school boyfriend. (Basically, every one that came through Edmonton at the time.) I saw Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne and Def Leppard (of course! That was my first concert) just to name a few. So the Union Jack was, and is, naturally cool by association. As an homage to my heavy metal fan days I have put Tula Pink’s Heart Eyes Skulls on the back of my quilt.
Heart Eyes Skulls by Tula Pink are on the back of my quilt. The binding is also a Tula Pink stripe.
I think too that for those of us in Commonwealth Countries like Canada that the Union Jack is like the flag of the Mother Ship if you will. I am very proud of our monarchy. HRH, The Prince of Whales is Colonel in Chief of my husband’s regiment and we see the Union Jack in several buildings around the military bases as well. We also sing “God Save the Queen” at major events such as Remembrance Day.
Foundation Paper Pieced Union Jack Flag.
I felt the best way to achieve the degree of accuracy needed for the National Flag of the United Kingdom was to foundation paper piece it so my pattern does require a knowledge of how to foundation paper piece. I have created a demonstration video for my YouTube channel but it is not a comprehensive tutorial. Check it out if you want a peek in my sewing studio.
Quilted with sippleing, half feather in the border and loops and wavy lines in the flag.
I quilted the Union Jack in a Pixel Heart quilt with stippling in the heart and background. I quilted wavy lines and loops in the flag and half feathers in the border.
Close up of some of the fabrics.
The background is almost all Lizzy House Whisper Palette fabrics with the exception of the city houses print. These have been treasured in my stash for a couple of years now and were from Studio 39 Fabrics.
So, I am very happy with how this quilt turned out and I made it within a week. 🙂
Hello and welcome to week 8 in the Canadian Summer Quilt Along! This week we have a beautiful foundation pieced block designed by Jean of Sophisticat Fibre Art Studio called “Coastal Majesty.”
Jean’s block is inspired by the beautiful trees around Vancouver in British Columbia. In her pattern she writes, “This block symbolizes the majesty of those trees growing in the mountains.”
I lived in Vancouver for four years as a child while my Mom was doing her master’s degree. The trees in and around Vancouver truly are awe inspiring. Many happy days were spent climbing trees there.
I remember one time my brother, sister and I were up in a tall cedar tree and we saw our Dad who was doing maintenance on the roof of one of the buildings at the Vancouver School of Theology (where my Mom did her masters). We were eye level with him and he was on the fifth floor. We called to him “Hey Dad!” He looked around on the ground for us but couldn’t see us. “Over here! In the tree! We’re waving a branch at you!” The look of shock on his face was funny to us at the time but as a parent I can imagine the feeling he must have had now. He stayed very calm but said sternly “You kids are up too high. You climb back down now.” Ah, good times in Vancouver.
Anyway, I digress. 🙂 Here is my version of Jean’s Coastal Majesty block. Dara of Stitched Quilting Co. did a beautiful job of the quilting on my block.
Anita’s version of Coastal Majesty. Block designed by Sophisticat Fibre Art Studio. Quilted by Stitched Quilting Co.
Normally I find foundation paper piecing so challenging that it’s not fun for me but I really enjoyed this block and it’s very possible to achieve even if you are a beginner at this technique. Jean also suggests using “improv strata” for your trees. This is basically creating fabric pieces by sewing together small strips (or you could slash and insert strips as well). Jean has a photo of this on her Instagram post (second photo).
Coastal Majesty before quilting to get a better representation of the fabric colours in my block.
Jean was having some technical issues with her website so she said she would try to have a tutorial up on her Facebook page if not on her site.
Giveaway: Post your blocks on Instagram using the hashtag #canadiansummerqal for a chance to win my most popular PDF pattern the “Pixel Heart in a Pixel Heart” pattern. Jean also says if you tag her on your post @sew_catstudio by August 15th she will also be offering a prize.
I’ve had the idea for this American Flag Heart Quilt for a few months and yesterday I decided I better hurry up and make it or it would be the Fourth of July and quilters wouldn’t have time to make it until next year.
American Flag Heart Quilt made with strips. It is also possible to make it as a scrappy pixleated heart quilt.
I cut it out yesterday at lunch. Pieced it yesterday afternoon and quilted and bound it this morning. And in between I wrote a pattern. So you can probably tell that this is a quick and easy quilt to make.
I quilted it with wavy lines to make it like a flag flying in the wind. I think this would be perfect to spread out on the grass for a fourth of July picnic and fireworks.
I had the fabrics left from a custom order for an American Flag quilt and you know me and my love for heart quilts…
My three kids came to help me hold up the quilt. They are very helpful most of the time. 🙂
The pattern to make this quilt is available on our Website, Craftsy and Etsy.
This American Flag Heart Quilt pattern is easy and quick to make. You can make it with strips of fabric for a really quick finish or you can make a scrappy patchwork pixelated heart quilt. Cutting and sewing instructions for both options are included in the pattern.
This pattern makes a 75″ x 65″ quilt. To make it 75″ square just add and extra background strip to the top and bottom of the quilt.
The PDF pattern is six pages long and includes computer generated cutting and piecing diagrams with written instructions. There are also binding diagrams and instructions for finishing your quilt.
