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August 16, 2026

Summer on the Porch Quilt Pattern Mockups!

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This week's featured pattern is Summer on the Porch, so I'm sharing mockups in newer fabric collections to inspire you to make your own Summer on the Porch quilt. Maybe you already have these colors in your fat quarter stash, ready to sew up into a beautiful star and chain quilt design.

The Summer on the Porch quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts Shop.

Below each image is the name of the fabric collection shown in each quilt. All quilts shown are the Throw size.

Firework Fields by Riley Blake Designs with white background

Firework Fields by Riley Blake Designs with Confetti Cottons Coastal Blue background

Summer on the Porch Quilt Pattern Features

Includes 4 sizes - Throw, Twin, Queen, and King

Fat Quarter friendly

Skill Level: Intermediate or Confident Beginner as there are a number of pieces to keep track of and types of blocks to make.

Boho Garden by QT Fabrics

Petal and Hazel by Riley Blake Designs

A Cat Named Stitch by Camille Roskelley for Moda Fabrics

Garden Dalliance by Shelley Cavanna for Benartex

Petal Whispers by White Owl Textiles, a division of Lumin Fabrics

Star Spangled Beauty By Maywood Studio

Vibrance by Riley Blake Designs

Autumn Afternoon by Heather Peterson for Riley Blake Designs

Among the Wildflowers II by Shelley Cavanna for Benartex

Berry Market by Beverly McCullough for Riley Blake Designs

Chloe by Riley Blake Designs

Freedom Garden by Riley Blake Designs

Morning Meadow by Riley Blake Designs on white background

Morning Meadow by Riley Blake Designs on navy background

The Summer on the Porch quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts Shop.

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October 26, 2022

Rainbow Summer on the Porch Quilt Kits!

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We have kitted Summer on the Porch in bright and happy rainbow colors for you! This is a fat quarter friendly quilt pattern that includes four sizes - Throw, Twin, Queen, and King. We have all four sizes of quilt kits available in the shop. The quilt kits include the quilt pattern.

The Summer on the Porch quilt kits are available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.

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February 7, 2022

Winter Solstice Throw Quilt in Peppered Cottons!

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Today I'm sharing a Winter Solstice Throw quilt that I made in 2020. Uh, well, better late posting it than never!

Winter Solstice combines oversized star and Irish Chain blocks for a super quick finish. The Irish Chains are made with two different grays for an added twist.

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

Winter Solstice Quilt Pattern

The Winter Solstice quilt pattern includes two sizes - Throw and Queen. This quilt is the Throw size. The design is exactly the same in both sizes, but with different sized blocks. The large blocks go together delightfully quickly and still result in a stunning quilt design.

Throw Size

Queen Bed

A Rainbow of Goodness

This Winter Solstice quilt is made with a rainbow of Peppered Cottons. I won a FQ bundle a number of years ago, and it sat around just waiting for the perfect quilt, and this is it!

You'll find Peppered Cottons right here.

For fabric selection, choose three colorways and gather three hues (light, medium, and dark) in each of the five colorways. Then add a background color (black is shown), and add two colors for the Irish Chain blocks (light and medium gray shown).

The Throw size uses a FQ or less of each of the rainbow of colors for the star blocks, and the Queen size uses 1/2 yard or less of each of the colors.

Longarm Quilting

Unfortunately, I cannot find the name of the longarm quilting design in my design file. It was stitched in black thread on my HandiQuilter Fusion with ProStitcher.

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

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October 21, 2021

Shooting Stars Quilt Pattern - The Throw Size in Belle Isle by Moda!

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I have a fun patriotic quilt to share today! This is Shooting Stars, a new quilt pattern for you!

Of course, Shooting Stars can be made in your favorite colors and doesn't have to be Americana.

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

Shooting Stars Quilt Pattern

The Shooting Stars quilt pattern is a great way to let a large print focus sparkle as the star points. The oversized floral from the Belle Isle collection is perfect for the points.

The Irish Chain quilt blocks are made with two different fabrics placed in opposite directions in the block and then alternating directions across the quilt top.

Red White and Blue Fabrics!

This Shooting Stars quilt is the Throw size, made in the Belle Isle fabric collection by Minick and Simpson for Moda Fabrics by my professional sewist, Kare. She enjoyed making the large star blocks.

Belle Isle includes florals in several sizes, large, medium, and small, as well as dots, plaids, and tone-on-tones. The background is a very light cream, not quite a true bright white.

Belle Isle is available right here on Etsy and right here at Fat Quarter Shop.

Two Sizes Included

The Shooting Stars quilt pattern includes the Throw and Queen sizes, and the design of both sizes is exactly the same with larger blocks in the Queen size. Thus, this is a fairly quick Queen size quilt to make.

Longarm Quilting

This quilt is quilted with Pirouette in cream thread on my HandiQuilter Fusion with ProStitcher.

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July 8, 2020

Ava's Garden Twin Size Quilt Kit!

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Photo Credit Connecting Threads

Ava's Garden has been kitted by Connecting Threads in Wild Crimson in the Twin size! This is a twist on a classic design and is oh so sparkly!

The Wild Crimson fabric collection is a great mix of shades of blue, deep red, tan, and cream with a lot of blenders that are so easy to work with.

Photo Credit Connecting Threads

The large blocks in Ava's Garden go together quickly, and would you believe this is a layer cake friendly quilt pattern? Yep! Toss in a few other fabrics and go!

Photo Credit Connecting Threads

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Quilt Kit Pattern Fabric Collection

An Ava's Garden Quilt I've Made

This is the Twin size Ava's Garden in Smitten and Little Snippets. This quilt has dark indigo Irish chains in comparison to the cream-colored chains in the Wild Crimson quilt.

Truth - I forgot to add the narrow navy border and didn't notice until after it was quilted. I can laugh now, but it wasn't so funny at the time. I had to add a border to the picture for the pattern cover since the pattern includes one.

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February 20, 2020

Winter Solstice Rainbow Throw Quilt!

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This week's finish is a Winter Solstice Throw quilt in a rainbow of Peppered Cottons. The gray chains are made with two shades of gray for added texture. These quilt blocks were made to test the pattern last spring, and they were set aside until this week.

Winter Solstice has been kitted by Connecting Threads in Faux Linen, a lovely textured-looking fabric in solid-ish colors. Our color schemes are very similar which is amazing since I was just using a fat quarter bundle I had on hand.

Photo credit Connecting Threads

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

Photo Credit Connecting Threads

Quilt Stats:

Pattern: Winter Solstice, available only at Connecting Threads
Fabric: Peppered Cottons (colors) and Robert Kaufman Manchester (black and grays)
Size: 60" x 72"
Batting: Hobbs Heirloom Cotton in Black
Backing and Binding: Kona Cotton in Black
Quilting: Feathers Allover on Gratitude my Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher

This quilt will be for sale! Just as soon as I get more pictures of it.

Linking to: ♥ Needle and Thread Thursday ♥ Finished or Not Finished Friday ♥ From Bolt to Beauty ♥ Can I Get a Whoop Whoop?!? ♥

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