Hot Summer Quilts
Heat up your summer quilting with tropical prints, citrus colors, and beach-worthy designs. From throws to table toppers, you’ll find all the patterns you need to turn your home into an oasis.
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Life's A Picnic
Reproduction 1930s prints are showcased in a traditional star pattern. A pieced binding reinforces the “use it up” sensibility of the era.
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Garden Party
An easy-to-piece pattern provides plenty of space to showcase large-scale floral, precut 10" squares.
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Lemon Bars
Capture the fresh feeling of cool summer breezes wafting through a flower garden in the bright quilt.
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Summer Breeze
This vintage quilt features a large selection of fabrics from the 1930s.
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Split-Rail Summer
The mottled blues and greens of this complex-looking quilt call to mind a bubbling brook and a peaceful meadow.
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Beachy Waves
For a quilt that mimics ocean waves, select dozens of batiks in sea glass colors and combine them in a bargello design.
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Fiesta Pinwheels!
Punch up your summer table with a runner that’s easier than it looks. It’s all about the fabric placement—we show you how!
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Bee Happy
Fast fusible appliqués stitched atop foundation strips make this buzz-worthy quilt cute as can “bee.”
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Star-Spangled Summer
Celebrate the season with a table runner that embraces the best of summer.
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Summer Snapshots
Sew a wall hanging with sections featuring favorite summer motifs — a bowl of lemons, blooming flowers, and sunny pinwheels.
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Summer Salsa
Stitch up Nine-Patch blocks and combine them with setting squares for an easy checkerboard-style quilt.
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Sailing Ships
Lost Ship blocks rotated 180° form bright orange and orange-and-pink vessels swimming in a cream sea. A green print inner border provides an unexpected pop of cool color.
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Pineapple Chunks
Use the quilt-as-you-go method to add pieced rows at the same time that you layer the batting and backing. Then add the binding, pop on a few ragged-edge leaves, and your pineapple table topper is ready for a luau.
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Sunny Skies
Cheery blue and yellow star in this sunny wall quilt. A variety of geometric prints complement the tone-on-tones for low-contrast piecing.
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What's the Buzz?
Combine whimsical bird and floral appliqués with playful pieced blocks for a sweet-as-can-“bee” quilt.
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Summer Refreshers
Appliqué fruit and straws to pieced glasses of refreshing drinks for a summertime table topper.
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Watercolors
Using a range of blue and green batiks and prints gives the sense of a deep, impenetrable ocean.
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Cherry Delight
Whip up an oh-so-sweet wall hanging showcasing a pair of cherry appliqués and a bushel of borders made from precut floral strips.
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Pink Lemonade
Stars created with a spirited mix of prints and tone-on-tones are sprinkled among a rosy Irish Chain of Double Four-Patch blocks.
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Summer Windmills
Happy solid orange, cheerful solid turquoise, and bright polka dot white combine to make Flying Geese units. When arranged around a center square, the units look like blades on windmills rotating in a summer breeze.
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Vive la French Country
A tablecloth lends elegance to any outdoor setting. On this inviting tablecloth, charming yellow and blue prints march around a border that looks like French tiles.
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Watermelon Table Topper
Use the flip-and-sew method to make this watermelon table runner.
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Ships Ahoy!
Think you’ll make waves with a nautical-theme crib quilt? Our instructions for easy-to-piece sailboats and appliqué accents ensure smooth sailing.
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Colorful Fun Daisies
Brighten your day with a bouquet of daisies set off by white-and-black prints in a fast and fusible, cheery wall hanging.
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Paisley Pop
Bright solids and a plethora of paisleys pack a punch in a summer quilt.
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Splash of Summer
Keep your beach towel rolled with a whimsical seaside critter belt.
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Summer Stars Table Topper
Fussy-cut large prints or a panel to make a bright and happy summer-theme table topper.
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Summer Chevrons
Purposefully arranged triangle-squares produce a chevron pattern in a summer-theme wall hanging. Pops of color in the beach-theme border echo the bright prints and batiks in the quilt center.
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Beachy T-Shirt Throw
Life’s a beach with this sand castle-inspired T-shirt throw. A muted background of tone-on-tone tans and ocean blues lets the summer-theme shirts shine in the sun.
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Sunny Side Up
Watch new shapes emerge when you cleverly arrange light and dark fabrics to create an optical illusion.
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Tropical Twist
Cut bright batik fabrics in strips to form vibrant geometric blocks. Vivid blue sashing frames the eye-popping blocks.
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Nautical Baby Quilt
Make a splash with a nautical-theme crib quilt. Stitched in pink prints and rose polka dots, this baby quilt will make a great gift for any baby girl.
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Mango Tango Throw
Each block of this sizzling, south-of-the-border 54-1/2-square throw uses nine assorted stripe, plaid, and solid fabrics.
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Sea and Sand Quilt
Combine batik and tone-on-tone fabrics in an easy-to-piece quilt that conquers images of the ocean.
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Tropical Crossing Wall Hanging
Bright batik fabrics pop off a light, scrappy background in this wall hanging.
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Pineapple Twist Wall Quilt
A square and cross pattern takes center stage on this wall hanging, which contains four Pineapple blocks.
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Tiny Treasures
An X marks the spot on this table topper, where Four-Patch blocks and X blocks form a large overall X. Sea blues and sandy tans contrast perfectly with pops of red and orange.
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Citrus Patch Throw
Citrus prints combine beautifully in a sunny throw.
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Blue Jeans Quilt
Recycle your old blue jeans into an easy, pieced throw perfect for a summer picnic.
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Double Dutch
Even if you never played this two-jump-rope game in grade school, you'll enjoy pairing up the pieces for a happy-go-lucky quilt. Stars within stars and triangles within triangles play off each other for piecing fun.
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Nautical Pinwheels Quilt
Make pinwheels pop by using a navy blue print and a crisp, solid white for the large triangle-squares.
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Citrus Stars
A playful palette of citrus colors—orange, green, and yellow—brings a summery look to this wall hanging. Careful placement of triangle-squares produces pairs of star blocks.
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Two-Block Citrus Quilt
Use setting rectangles grouped by color families to create diagonal patterns across a quilt top.
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Here Comes the Sun
You’ll have sunshine on a cloudy day with this cheery throw that features yellow bursting through black and gray. Geometric prints lend a modern feel to a traditional block and color combination.
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Two-Block Kid’s Quilt
Set a circus scene on a crib quilt with animal-theme novelty prints.
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Sherbet Rail Fence
Make a cheerful summer throw of cleverly arranged Rail Fence blocks. Cheerful sherbet-tone prints liven up this traditional, easy-to-piece pattern.
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Floating Boxes Quilt
For a striking, fresh take on modern quiltmaking, piece together blocks of bright fabric and frame them in a stylish sashing of pieced rectangles.
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Salute to Summer
Greens and grays bring a modern feel to this otherwise red, white, and blue table runner that can be used long after summer ends. Carefully combining triangle-squares results in the fun banner shapes.
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Applique Fan Quilt
Appliqued fans in sky blue and sunny yellow are perfect for a day spent outdoors.
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Hot and Cold Wall Hanging
Mix hot and cool colors in a large wall hanging. A fiery border offsets the calming sea of blues in the center.
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Blue Ocean Waves
Serene aquas and cool blues rule in a tranquil wall hanging. Soft prints and large floral fabrics result in Ocean Waves blocks with less defined edges, adding to the relaxed feel of the piece.
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Tropical Blooms Wall Hanging
The black tone-on-tone background provides subtle movement in this wall hanging, yet doesn’t compete with the appliqué flowers.
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Tropical Medallion Wall Hanging
Tropical fabrics give this wall hanging an island vibe. Fussy-cut tropical birds and dragonflies appear in the Square-in-a-Square blocks in the middle border.
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Tropical Patches Wall Quilt
A bevy of batiks results in a tropical-look wall hanging. Punches of orange and pops of teal interspersed throughout the patchwork draw the eye around the quilt and add sparkle.
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Rectangle Bargello Quilt
Alternate strips of blue dot fabrics and pieced novelty prints to create a bargello design.
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