Sweetness Throw Quilt in Dream - a bright and happy rainbow quilt!

Today I'm sharing a bright and happy rainbow version of the Sweetness quilt pattern. It really is a sweet, bold quilt!  It's also easy to make with large pieces and is precut friendly.  As a Bonus, I'm also sharing the other four quilts I've made with the Dream fabric collection!

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

Sweetness Quilt Pattern Features

This is the perfect quilt pattern for you to just sit down and sew without a lot of fuss.  It's perfect for a gift quilt for anyone on your list who will surely love it and appreciate you for all of your effort.

• Includes 6 sizes - Baby, Lap, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King

• Instructions include using 5" charm squares, 10" layer cake squares, FQs, and half-yards

• Skill Level: Confident Beginner

Bright Happy Rainbow Fabrics

The fabric collection used in this quilt is Dream by Kristy Lea of Quilt Play for Riley Blake Designs.  The collection includes clouds, rainbows, and tone-on-tones in all colors of the rainbow; bright pinks, reds, oranges, yellows, greens, teals, blues, and purples.  One print is a clamshell rainbow print which is super fun.  You can easily see it in the image below.

The Dream fabric collection has been out for quite awhile and is hard to find.  Kristy Lea, the designer, has created a newer, very similar collection called Imagine.  You can find Imagine on Etsy right here.

Other Quilts Made with DREAM Fabrics

I have long loved the Dream fabric collection and have made several quilts out of it over the years. The Sweetness quilt is the fifth one I've made in the collection.  Below are the other four quilts in Dream by Kristy Lea for Riley Blake Designs.

You could easily substitute the Imagine fabric collection to replicate this super fun quilts.  You can find Imagine on Etsy right here.

Above is Hand Picked in the Baby size, made in July of 2022.  This pattern is 2.5" jelly roll strip friendly, includes all of the sizes, and is made with strip piecing for a fast finish.

Read about this quilt on the blog, and shop the Hand Picked pattern in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.

Above is a Baby size quilt in the Good Morning pattern in the Dream fabric collection on a gray background.  This pattern includes 5 sizes and two options for fabric selection - 5 colors to create an ombre effect - or scrappy which allows for the use of 2.5" jelly roll strips.  Both fabric options still allow strip piecing.  This quilt represents the scrappy version with strips cut from fat quarters.

Read more about this quilt on the blog, and shop the Good Morning quilt pattern in the shop.

Above is a Quilty Cabins Throw quilt in Dream fabrics, for a super sweet Rainbow Heart win!  This pattern is Fat Quarter friendly with the hearts pieced right into the blocks.  There is NO applique in this pattern.  Included are two layout options - traditional placement, and Offset which creates a wave down the quilt.  There are six quilt sizes included in the pattern.

Shop the Quilty Cabins quilt pattern in the shop, and read the blog post on this quilt right here.

Above is Jacks quilt made in Dream in the Baby size.  This pattern includes 6 sizes and is FQ and 1/4-yard friendly.

You can shop the Jacks quilt pattern right here and read about the quilt on the blog.

Heading Back to the Sweetness Quilt!

Includes 6 Quilt Sizes and Precut Friendly

You'll love that the size you want to make is included in the Sweetness pattern.  The six sizes are Baby, Lap, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King.  The Lap size measures 51" x 64" and requires (45) 10" squares, so this is a good fit for a layer cake with a few additional squares added from your stash.

You can choose to use 5" squares, 10" squares, or fat quarters.  Cutting instructions for all of these precuts are included in the pattern.

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

Longarm Machine Quilting

The quilting design used on this quilt is a combination of swirls and clouds.  Quilted on my Handi Quilter Amara with ProStitcher in Superior Omni Bright White thread.

I am unsure who made this quilt as it sat in my to-be-quilted box for a long time, and I didn't keep track.  It may have been made by Kare Ybarra or me.  🙃  It was quilted and bound by me this week in June, 2026.

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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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Quilty Cabins Throw Quilt Kit in Spiced Cider by Connecting Threads

Quilty Cabins has been kitted in the Throw size by Connecting Threads in their beautiful fall collection called Spiced Cider!  This is a really lovely collection of peach, plum and brown with creamy accents.

The Quilty Cabins quilt kit is available at Connecting Threads.

The Quilty Cabins quilt pattern is super sweet with a heart pieced right into the center of each block.  The pattern includes six sizes and two layout options.  The blocks can be offset to create a wave design down the quilt or placed traditionally as shown in this quilt.  This is a great stash-busting quilt pattern with the use of fat quarters.

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Quilty Cabins Quilt Along!

It's getting to be that time of year again where the holiday shopping is slowly coming to an end.  Gifts are being wrapped, food has been purchased, and you're finally able to settle down and thoroughly enjoy this holiday season with your family and loved ones.  But what do you have to look forward to once the year is over?  Well, it's time to get excited about our Quilty Cabins Quilt Along that begins on January 7!

Quilty Cabins quilt pattern is available in the BusyHandsQuilts shop.

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After several years' hiatus, we have jumped back on Facebook and created a Busy Hands Quilts group where you can share your progress on quilts you make in my patterns!

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Let's Get Quilty!

Create your very own Quilty Cabins Quilt with us in this years Quilt Along.  A Quilt Along is when you get to sit back and follow along with us to create your very own Quilty Cabins quilt.  Watch in amazement as you make an absolutely stunning quilt that you get to call your own!

Quilty Cabins is our super sweet log cabin heart quilt pattern that uses Fat Quarters and includes two layout options - Traditional and Offset.  The Traditional layout option creates the age-old log cabin design, while the Offset layout creates a stunning cascading wave design.

6 Sizes Available

I absolutely adore getting the opportunity to see everyone's skills flourish with this project.  I feel like it really brings us fellow quilters together to showoff our talents!  Quilty Cabins comes in 6 sizes that you get to choose from that are listed below.

• Baby

• Throw

• Twin

• Square Queen

• Long Queen

• King

Quilty Cabins quilt pattern is available in the BusyHandsQuilts shop.

Ready, Set, Quilt

While you are encouraged to work on this at your own pace, I have outlined a timeline of this year's quilt along so that you can have a goal of where you should be at in the process.  

Quilty Cabins Quilt Along Schedule:

January 7: Begin cutting your fabric

January 14: Make blocks

January 21: Make blocks

February 11: Finishing your quilt

Share the Love!

Busy Hands Quilts is officially live on Facebook and I hope to see you following us!  We love seeing everyone's talent come alive, so please share your progress and finished quilt with us in our Busy Hands Quilts Facebook Group.  We ask for clear photos of your work. 📸  Don't just share pictures with us, share it's story!  How did you like working with this quilt pattern?  Any unique outcomes along the way?  We hope you enjoy participating in the Quilt Along as much as I do!

If you don't have the Quilty Cabins quilt pattern, visit our shop here to purchase your pattern today.

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A Log Cabin Heart Quilt - Quilty Cabins in Dream!

Today I'm sharing a rainbow bright Quilty Cabins quilt in the Throw size!  This happy quilt has hearts encircled with log cabin logs.  The quilt pattern includes 6 sizes and is fat quarter friendly.

The hearts are pieced into the blocks and are NOT appliqued on.  :)

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

Quilty Cabins Pattern Features

Quilty Cabins includes all of the quilt sizes - 6 in all - Baby, Throw, Twin, Square Queen, Rectangular Queen, and King.  It's such a great value for your dollar, and you'll use the quilt pattern more than once.  :)

You'll love that Quilty Cabins is stash friendly!  You can use your stash of fat quarters in Quilty Cabins, or use a FQ bundle of your favorite fabric collection.  

There are two layout options in Quilty Cabins.  This quilt is made in the Traditional layout where the "logs" in the blocks create a "square" design where they meet.  The second layout is Offset, in which the "logs" in the blocks create flowing waves down the quilt top.  You can see an example of the Offset layout in this blog post.

A Rainbow of Fabrics

Fabrics in this Quilty Cabins quilt are from the Dream collection by Kristy Lea for Riley Blake Designs with a background of white.  They are fun, bright prints encompassing the entire rainbow, and many are tone-on-tones which read as solids.  Then there are those cute rainbows and puffy clouds!

We carry fat quarter bundles of Dream in our shop.  Click here to see them.

The backing is a yellow sunburst wide back which is no longer available in our shop, and the binding is a blue print from the collection.

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

The bright and happy quilt on the ladder in the background of the picture above is Hand Picked, also made in Dream by Riley Blake Designs.  The Hand Picked quilt pattern is jelly roll friendly, includes 5 sizes, and is stri pieced.  Click here to see the Hand Picked quilt pattern in our shop.

Longarm Quilting

The quilt design on this quilt is Double Bubble, quilted in white thread on my Handi Quilter Fusion with Pro Stitcher.  It's a fun circle design that stitches out without a lot of stitching over previous stitches, which I prefer not to happen.

This quilt top was made by one of my sewists, Kare, in August of 2022.

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

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Quilty Cabins Quilt in Picadilly

Today I'm sharing a red, white, and blue Quilty Cabins quilt in the Throw size.  This quilt pattern combines log cabin blocks with heart blocks all in one!  The hearts are pieced right in, and this pattern is all traditional piecing and does not include any applique.  You can easily make it!

The Quilty Cabins quilt pattern includes all of the sizes so you don't have to do any math to create the size you really want to make.  It also has two layout options for two different looks.

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

Ah, this is a sweet picture with the quilt hanging on the pool shed at our previous home in Washington State.  We've been in Ohio for over two months already, and we are really loving it!

The Quilty Cabins Quilt Pattern

This pattern includes two layout options - Traditional and Offset.  This is the Offset layout, with the blocks forming waves of logs down the quilt top.  Perfect for a red, white, and blue Americana quilt!  The Traditional layout has the blocks laid out in standard rows.  Click here to see a Quilty Cabins in the Traditional layout.

The Quilty Cabins quilt pattern includes all of the sizes - 6 in all - Baby, Throw, Twin, Square Queen, Rectangular Queen, and King.  The Full size didn't work out, unfortunately, so it's not included in the quilt pattern.  

Use fat quarters from your stash or scraps from your scrap bins for a stunning scrappy quilt!

Red White and Blue Fabrics

The Picadilly fabric collection includes so many amazing prints in a number of colorways - navy, medium blues, red, and grays.  Stars, bandanas, fireworks, circles, and orange peels add a 4th of July / Labor Day feel to the fabrics.  Click here to see the Picadilly fabrics.

That quilt above on the ladder is the Good Morning quilt pattern.  Click here to see the Good Morning quilt pattern (jelly roll friendly and strip pieced for a quick and easy finish)!  It's made with the same fabrics as this Quilty Cabins quilt.

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

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Longarm Quilting

The quilting design on this quilt is Double Bubble in light gray thread, finished on my Handi Quilter Fusion with Pro Stitcher.  

The backing fabric is a print from the Picadilly collection, and the same print was used for the binding.

This quilt top was made by Kare, one of my professional sewists.

The hearts are pieced right into the quilt blocks, and no applique is required to make this quilt.  I have tried applique on occasion and have never fallen in love with it, so as of now, you won't find it in any of my quilt patterns.  Never say never, though!

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

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