Good Morning Quilt Pattern - A Throw Quilt in Sunrise!

Today I'm sharing a Sunrise version of the Good Morning quilt pattern!  This quilt was finished in October of last year and somehow didn't get posted on the blog at that time.  Oh no!!  

Good Morning is one of many strip pieced quilt patterns in the Busy Hands Quilts pattern collection.  In this design, the colors cascade down the quilt top from corner to corner.

This fun quilt is fast to sew together and is stash friendly.  Pull five fabrics that meld together in some way, whether from the same colorway, corresponding colors, or even a rainbow; and then add a background accent fabric, and you're ready!  There really are no limits to the fabrics you can use.  

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

Good Morning Quilt Pattern

After being inspired by Deanna's fire version of Waterfall II (click here to check it out), I've looked for other patterns that the fire or sunrise/sunset theme, would work in, and the Good Morning quilt pattern is perfect for this theme.

This is the quilt that was the inspiration for the quilt pattern being named Good Morning.  Seeing the sun peeking over the morning horizon in a beautiful blending of colors, is a good morning indeed.

Strip piecing and no seams to nest make this a fast and easy pattern to make.

All the Quilt Sizes

The Good Morning quilt pattern includes lots of quilt sizes in the instructions.

• Baby quilt

• Throw quilt

• Twin bed quilt

• Queen bed quilt

• King bed quilt

Good Morning Fabric Requirements

Longarm Quilting

In keeping with the theme of the quilt, the quilting design looks like the flames of a fire.  It adds wonderful texture and depth to the quilt.  The digital quilting design is Cultivar, done on my Handi Quilter Fusion with Pro-Stitcher in black thread.

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

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Scrap- and Precut-Friendly Quilt Pattern

Good Morning is a great pattern for using your scraps, not just five fabrics.  The pattern includes instructions to use scraps or precut strips instead of only five fabrics.  This Americana quilt right here is an example of using scraps instead of a planned 5-fabric layout.  It made a good dent in my red and blue scrap bins.

Dewdrop Fabrics

This quilt is made with Dewdrop by Windham Fabrics.  Each fabric includes several hues of a single colorway with gold metallic flecks, and some of the fabrics include a blending of several colorways, such as the orange, yellow and pink fabric shown here.

The background fabric is solid black, the binding is a red from the Dewdrop collection, and the backing is Dry Brush wide back in black.

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

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Scrappy Goodness Throw Quilt in Bright Solids!

The Scrappy Goodness quilt pattern is the perfect pattern to use the bright and happy solid fabrics from your stash!  Grab those solid jelly rolls or solids scraps that you've been wondering what to do with and pair them with Scrappy Goodness!

The Scrappy Goodness quilt pattern includes most of the sizes - Baby, Lap, Throw, Queen, and King.  Only the Twin bed size didn't work out mathematically.

The Scrappy Goodness quilt pattern can be found in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.

So Many Quilt Sizes

This is a multi-sized quilt pattern, which the goal for all of my quilt patterns when it works mathematically.  The instructions include the following quilt sizes:

• Baby  48" x 48"  uses 32 jelly roll strips

• Lap  48" x 64"  uses 42 jelly roll strips (perfect for one jelly roll, may need to add two strips)

• Throw  64" x 80"  uses 70 jelly roll strips (perfect for two jelly rolls with the extra strips for binding)

• Queen Bed Quilt  96" x 96"  uses 126 jelly roll strips (perfect for three jelly rolls)

• King Bed Quilt  112" x 112"  uses 172 jelly roll strips (perfect for five jelly rolls with the extra strips for binding), and that's a super big quilt!

Those Happy Fabrics!

Because these blocks sat in my WIP (work in progress) bins for so long, I am not totally sure what the fabric collection is.  In the time that has passed since these blocks were made, I have begun leaving the fabric labels with projects that end up on hold in the WIP bins.  I am pretty sure it was two jelly rolls and not fabric from my solids scrap bin, because I don't think I would have put these colors together myself - and they do work beautifully together, indeed!  So, the assumption is this is made with Boundless Solids jelly rolls or a repurposed quilt kit.

The accent chains and binding are made with Kona Cotton Charcoal.  That part I do know!

There is a message in this quilt.  Even less-than-favorite solids can shine with other solids in the right quilt design!

The backing fabric is Widescreen in Gray, which we stock in The Wide Back Shop on our website.   This backing is perfect for so many quilts and is the most common backing used on my quilts. 

Because we're in the process of moving across the country, we aren't currently selling fabrics from the bolt as they are packed in boxes, ready for the big move.

Scrappy Goodness quilt pattern features

The Scrappy Goodness design includes an accent color that echoes across the quilt top in an on-point square design.  The placement of this chain varies in the blocks to create a symmetrical design.

The instructions include pressing instructions so that many seams in the quilt top nest, so using pins is more optional.  I did find that with rotating the blocks to achieve balanced color placement, that some of the seams ended up no longer nesting.  I went rogue, though, and still didn't pin these seams, because the blocks were fitting together nicely without the seams nesting and without pins.

This truly is an easy quilt pattern to make.  It does take a little more time to make the blocks with a bit of seam ripping and careful attention to the pattern to make sure the fabrics end up in the right places, but as you can see, it's so worth it!  ♥

Longarm Machine Quilting

This Scrappy Goodness quilt is quilted with light gray thread in a design called Hexi or Hex Marks the Spot (both names show up in my files), on my HandiQuilter Fusion with Pro-Stitcher, Gratitude.  I love the way this design quilts out, and I had kinda forgotten about it in recent months, so it was great to use it again.

The Scrappy Goodness quilt pattern can be found in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.

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Good Morning Throw Quilt Kit in Ocean Depth Batiks!

The Good Morning quilt pattern has been kitted by Connecting Threads in their new batik collection called Ocean Depth Batiks!  The quilt kit includes all of the fabric for the quilt top and binding for the Throw size, which is a generous size at 62" x 74", plus the printed pattern.

The Good Morning Throw size batik quilt kit is available at Connecting Threads.

Photo Credit Connecting Threads

The quilt kit includes 5 hues from the teal colorway on a background of crisp white with a bold teal binding to frame and finish the quilt.

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The Good Morning Quilt Pattern

This pattern is quick and easy with strip piecing.  You'll love how fast it goes together with no seams to match in the blocks.

Good Morning includes 5 sizes - Baby, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King.

Were you wondering how this pattern was named Good Morning?  The original quilt design was in sunrise colors of reds, oranges, and yellows and thus was named Good Morning.  Sometimes naming quilts is the hardest part of the process!  :)

This pattern is also fantastic in the American colors of red, white and blue and mirrors a waving flag.  

You can see both the sunrise version and the Americana version right here, along with many other mockups of this design.

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The Good Morning Throw size batik quilt kit is available at Connecting Threads.

The Good Morning quilt pattern is available at Busy Hands Quilts.

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