Meet the Horizon quilt pattern and create the illusion of the horizon with your favorite quilt fabrics! A beautiful sunset over the horizon is created with three hues in three different colorways, purples to orange to gold.
The Horizon quilt pattern includes 6 sizes - Baby, Lap, Throw, Twin, Full, Queen, and King and is easy to make.
The Horizon quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands quilts shop.
The design idea of Horizon is to use three hues (a light, medium, and dark) of three colorways to create movement across the quilt top. In this quilt, the Maple fabric collection by Riley Blake Designs is used to create a stunning quilt. The three purple fabrics, three orange/peach fabrics, and three gold fabrics are pulled together with the background fabric from the collection as the common fabric in each section.
I wish I had discovered the Maple fabric collection sooner because it is really, really pretty, and I would have loved to use it in previous quilts. There are many more prints in the collection that are not shown in this quilt.
The Horizon Quilt Pattern
With 6 sizes - Baby, Lap, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King - you're all set to make the size that's just right for you.
This quilt is the Throw size and measures 60" x 72" and requires nine 1/2-yard cuts plus background and binding, for a total of 6-1/4 yards for the entire quilt top. This is a great size for snuggling on the sofa together during family time.
To help keep the rotation of the blocks correct and to maintain the design of the quilt, the HSTs are sewn into blocks instead of taking a stack of HSTs to the machine. This was less confusing for me, so that is the way the pattern is written. A key point to watch for during quilt top assembly is that the darkest print in each colorway runs diagonally across the quilt top from top to bottom, unless of course you've chosen to not place the darkest hue in that position! :)
The pattern is written so you do not need to decide the order of the three sections until each section is assembled. You may change your mind and want to reorder them after you see them sewn together, and this is simple to do!
Triangle Square Up Ruler - my favorite!
My favorite half-square triangle trimmer (of the ones I've tried) is the Quilt in a Day Triangle Square Up Ruler. It comes in a variety of sizes and includes half-inch markings on one corner with whole-inch markings on the other corner. I have the 6-1/2" one, and it works for the vast majority of the quilts I make.
With this ruler, the HSTs aren't pressed as the first step; rather, two sides of the HSTs are trimmed first, and then the dog ears are clipped off with scissors. Then the HST is pressed as you prefer, and my preference is open seams so there is less bulk at the seams. This is the reason this is my favorite HST ruler!
Be sure to check out the one called Triangle Square Up Ruler by Quilt in a Day; there are other rules called Square Up rulers which are not for half-square triangles.
Beautiful Sunset Fabrics
This quilt lets the Maple fabric collection by Riley Blake Designs really shine. Featuring fall designs of leaves, pumpkins, acorns, leaves, and geometric designs, the fabric give a gentle nod to the beautiful Fall season. The background fabric seen in all three colorways is also from the Maple collection.
Longarm Quilting Design
This quilt seemed to ask for a simple repeating quilting design. I will update this post with the name of the design when I turn my longarm machine on again. Thread color is off white. Quilted on my Handi Quilter Amara with ProStitcher.
This quilt design leaves the quilt super soft and flexible even though it is fairly dense quilting. It is really nice and cozy!
The Horizon quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands quilts shop.
The backing of this quilt is the same print as the background in the quilt top. The binding is the purple maple leaf print from the collection, double fold and attached by machine for durability and speedy application.
I have a lovely stack of Maple fabrics left after making this quilt, and I can't wait to sew with them again; they are just so soft and sweet to the eye!
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