Today I'm sharing a bright and happy Cottage Love wall hanging quilt! This is a quick and easy quilt pattern that you can make in a few hours for the Baby size, aka, Wall Hanging size.
Follow the Baby instructions to make the Wall Hanging size. A hanging rod pocket is attached to this quilt for easy hanging, since I am thinking this fabric is not typical for a Baby quilt and is better suited as a Wall Hanging.
This bright watercolor quilt is made with fabrics from my stash - Painterly Petals by Robert Kaufman. This is the older collection, and the newer collection is available right here.
Cottage Love is in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.
This is the quilt I made to test the pattern, and to make sure the pressing instructions were correct and that the magic that I claimed happened (every seam nesting) really did happen. And it does!
You may look at this quilt pattern and wonder why there are even nesting seams. Hmm, it's not assembled in the way you might think. It's a super quick and easy way to make this quilt, and there indeed are seams to nest. :)
Stash-Friendly Quilt Pattern
The Cottage Love quilt pattern includes instructions for using 5" charm squares, 10" layer cake squares, and fat quarters (for Lap size and up). All of these options make this a super stash-friendly quilt pattern, since you likely have these cuts in your stash already.
- 5" charm squares
- 10" layer cake squares
- fat quarters
- scrap bins (of course)
These Painterly Petals fabrics were in my stash, cut from a FQ bundle I had hoarded for several years and finally cut into last year to make a Through My Window quilt. You can see that quilt right here. The fabrics are so bright and colorful that making quilts with them is simply joyful!
All the Quilt Sizes
Cottage Love includes a huge number of quilt sizes - Seven! There are two Throw sizes so you can make exactly the size that fits your purpose. I love doing all of the math for you!
- Baby / Wall Hanging 40" x 40"
- Lap 40" x 50"
- Throw 50" x 70"
- Large Throw 60" x 80"
- Twin 70" x 90"
- Queen 100" x 100"
- King 110" x 110"
Those Bright Watercolor Fabrics!
This quilt is made with an older collection of Painterly Petals by Robert Kaufman which I had in my stash. They have updated the collection, including a number of the same prints and also adding new prints. It's even more spectacular than this collection, I think! You'll find the new collection right here.
The deep blue background fabric is Kona Nightfall, a vivid navy that's not as dark as Kona Navy or Nautical. This fabric is also used on the quilt back and binding.
Longarm Machine Quilting
The longarm quilting design used on this quilt is Belly Bop, a rounded version of Diagonal Bias Plaid. Quilting is done in navy thread on my HandiQuilter Fusion with Pro-Stitcher.
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