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
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.
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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