Quilty Cabins Wall Hanging / Baby Quilt in Sincerely Yours!

It's one month until Valentine's Day!  Today I'm sharing the perfect Valentine's Day quilt that I finished yesterday.  This is Quilty Cabins.

Quilty Cabins is a long cabin quilt design with a heart pieced right into the blocks. There is no applique in this quilt; it is made with traditional piecing.  This pattern is Fat Quarter friendly and includes 6 sizes so you can make just the size you want.  

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

I am using this quilt as a wall hanging and it is made following the Baby size instructions.  It measures approximate 35" square.

In January of 2024, I began hosting a Quilty Cabins Quilt Along with my newsletter subscribers, and this is the quilt I began making along with them.  Just after beginning the QAL, I had to head west to help my parents and was gone for almost three months, so the QAL was canceled, and my quilt blocks were stored away.  

Yesterday I assembled the blocks and quilted and bound the quilt top and am sharing it with you today, one month before Valentine's Day!

Oh, Those Fabrics!

This quilt is made with the Sincerely Yours fabric collection by Sherri and Chelsi of A Quilting Life for Moda Fabrics.  It's from a few years ago, and I was saving it for the perfect pattern, and that is Quilty Cabins!  

The Baby size quilt is made with 5 FQs or scraps, and using scraps is the better option as using only 5 FQs would make it very difficult to keep matching pieces from touching each other.  Using a FQ bundle of Sincerely Yours, I cut just a few strips from each print so almost the entire collection is included in this quilt.  Only the light prints were excluded.

The quilt pattern includes a chart that details how many of each piece size are needed, so it's really easy to use scraps instead of fat quarters.

Sincerely Yours is available right here.

Longarm Machine Quilting

The digital quilting design used is Heart to Heart by Karlee Porter.  The design is stitched out horizontally, so the quilt top must be placed horizontally on the rails with the top of the quilt on the same side as the top of the hearts.  You don't want the hearts upside-down!  ♥  Thread color is Natural White, quilted on my Handi Quilter Amara with ProStitcher.

The backing is Bee Basics Heart in Red by Riley Blake Designs, available right here in the shop, and the binding is a heart print from the Sincerely Yours collection.

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

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Horizon Throw Quilt in Moonchild Purples and Pinks!

Today's share is a purple and pink Horizon quilt in the Throw size.  This interpretation of the Horizon pattern uses two colorways instead of three as shown in the cover quilt which you can see right here.  The peachy pinks and purples in this quilt are very soft and sweet.

The Horizon quilt pattern is easy to make and includes 6 sizes - Baby, Lap, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King.

You'll find the Horizon quilt pattern in the Busy Hands Quilts shop right here.

Sweet Moonchild Fabrics

This quilt is made with Moonchild fabrics by Fran Gulick for Riley Blake Designs.  I pulled out only the purples and pinks from the collection and left out the navy and gold prints.  The prints are a planetary mix of stars, constellations, tiny flowers, and the sun and moon.

In the image above, the fabrics are in the order I used them in the quilt, in groups of threes.

For the typical Horizon quilt, you'll need three hues for the three sections of the quilt, but with this quilt, I melded the peachy pinks and purple into one section together, so the quilt flows so beautifully from the purple on one end to the deeper peachy pinks on the other end.

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.

The Quilt in a Day Triangle Square Up Ruler in various sizes is available here and here.

You'll find the Horizon quilt pattern in the Busy Hands Quilts shop right here.

Longarm Machine Quilting Design

This longarm quilting design is Stars and Loops, quilted on my Handi Quilter Amara with Pro Stitcher in white thread.  

The background fabric is a Lori Holt gingham wide back by Riley Blake Designs, and the binding is a creamy pink from the collection.  

This quilt top was made by Kare Ybarra and quilted and bound by me. 

You'll find the Horizon quilt pattern in the Busy Hands Quilts shop right here.

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Horizon Baby Quilt in Mini Fab!

Today I'm sharing a baby size Horizon quilt with you!  This one is the bright and happy version that will light up your home.  The Horizon quilt pattern features a light, medium, and dark hue in each of three colorways.  This is a fun design with lots of movement and spark!  This quilt features hot pink, bright orange, and lime green in a mix of flowers, bubbles, and dots.

The Horizon quilt pattern includes 5 sizes - Baby, Lap, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King.  

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

The Horizon Quilt Pattern

The Horizon quilt pattern is a simple pattern made with half-square triangles.  Block size in the Baby quilt is smaller than the other quilt sizes.  The pattern is made with blocks which increases the chance of getting the HST orientation correct, since the blocks are all the same layout.  

The Horizon quilt features three different sections, each in a different colorway.  This one is hot pink, bright orange, and lime green.  So bright and bold.  I had originally planned to integrate some of each colorway into the next section but found that writing, but when I went to write the quilt pattern, my brain said "keep it simple" and make each section a totally different color.  That said, there is a Horizon quilt that is made with two colorways with the center section a combination of the other two.  Look for the Horizon quilt in Moonchild.

The three sections are assembled separately, so you don't have to decide the order you place the sections in until they are all made.  It is important to sew the sections together with the blocks all oriented the same direction, which I did not do in this quilt.  Ug, I didn't notice the mistake until I pulled it off of the longarm.  The green section should be rotated 180 degrees so the green large floral triangles line up in a diagonal line with the large floral triangles in the pink and orange sections, with all of their triangle tips facing the same direction.  It's not really noticeable until you know; and then when you know, you just know.  So, be careful of that!

Bright and Bold Prints

This fabric collection is Mini Fab by Boundless fabrics from Craftsy/Bluprint.  It's been in my stash for a long time, but you may be able to find some on Etsy.  Each colorway includes the same large floral print as the dark hue, with different prints in the medium and light hues for each colorway.

The backing and binding fabric is the large floral from the collection which ties it all together.  Maybe mod, retro, or 60s would describe this fabric well.  :)  It's just bright and happy!

Even though the pink, orange, and green colorways came with the same prints, I didn't place identical prints in each hue for all of the colorways because sometimes a print in one colorway read lighter or darker than it did in the second colorway.  I hope this is making sense.  It helps to take a black and white photo of your fabrics to put them in order from lightest to darkest.  This pattern is more effective when the fabrics truly are in order from lightest to darkest hues.  

The Horizon Quilt Pattern

The Horizon quilt pattern includes all of the sizes - 6 in all - Baby, Lap, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King.  The Full size did not work out mathematically without using half blocks.  

The original Horizon quilt, which you can see right here, is a sunrise or sunset over the horizon, in gold, orange, and purple.

The blocks are smaller in the Baby quilt than the other quilt sizes, to make the math work.

I press the seams open on HSTs, so there is less bulk where they all meet together.  

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

Longarm Machine Quilting

The quilting design is bubbles in white thread on my Handi Quilter Amara with Pro Stitcher.  I used bubbles to reflect the circles in many of the prints.

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

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