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Showcase Solids in Quilts
Solid fabrics and solid lookalikes like tone-on-tones are becoming a popular way to add texture and interest to a quilted projects! Use them as backgrounds and borders to make prints stand out or use them in blocks as a way to show off quilting and beautiful piecing.
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Strips of Solids
Bands of bold solids make a dramatic statement in this throw.
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Simply Solid
Select a variety of solids for spinning Pinwheel blocks in an easy table runner.
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Petal Pushers
A solid white is the perfect background for fresh prints in this table runner with matching napkins.
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Born to Be Wild
For a snuggly baby quilt, use flannel featuring cute animals and pastel colors to create radiating diamonds.
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Tiny Dishes
Set miniature Broken Dishes blocks inside a solid fabric frame for a contemporary setting of a traditional block.
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Earn Your Stripes
Make your stripes look twice as nice: Use them as a border and in the blocks. To give your eyes a happy resting place, pair the stripes with colorful solids.
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Rail-Fence Pillow
Sew four blocks in a variety of favorite cool-tone solids, then set them on point with an additional cool-tone solid to make a 16"-square pillow.
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Wall of Color
Coordinate favorite solid colors or use up leftovers in this graphic wall hanging. Using only squares makes it easy to reduce or enlarge the finished size based on your needs.
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Straight Furrows Log Cabin
Log Cabin blocks composed of bright orange and aqua prints and solid gray form scrappy-looking stripes across this wall hanging.
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Peekaboo Patterns
Seemingly mismatched prints come together beautifully in this table topper. In the Pinwheel units, bright fabrics peek through a solid background.
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Paisley Pop
Pack a punch with a plethora of paisleys and woven blocks made from carefully placed solid strips.
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Scrappy Rectangles
A mix of cranberry reds, sage greens, and rose petal pinks combine with a range of neutrals to create a simple quilt. Tone-on-tones ensure that each fabric stands out.
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Easy Triangles Table Topper
In each diagonal row of this table runner, triangles alternate between soft stripes and heathered solids.
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Sweet Retreat Quilt
Update a room with a pieced coverlet in flirty florals, dainty checks, and pretty prairie points against a tone-on-tone white fabric.
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Tree Time
Gather a variety of cool-tone solids for tree blocks, set the blocks side-by-side, and frame them with a narrow border to make a forest-inspired wall quilt.
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Flying Four-Patch Wall Hanging
To make a scrappy, small-scale quilt, select solids or tone-on-tones in a wide range of hues.
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Double X Wall Hanging
Showcase a large floral in the center of tone-on-tones and a dark triangle-squares.
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What a Hoot Throw
Solid whites, browns, and creams balance the bright prints in this owl quilt. Plenty of open space also leaves you room for creative quilting.
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Ruffle Pillow
Sew a simple, yet elegant, pillow using 2"-wide ruffles and solid white fabric.
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Simple Squares and Bars
Shot cottons in solid jewel tones make up a super-simple quilt.
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Fused Garden Blooms
The small prints and tone-on-tones in this quilt act as solids for the fused flowers and vines.
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Fat Quarter Bed Quilt
Floral fat quarters form pieced stripes on this easy quilt. Solid watermelon pink strips and a yellow background show off quilting.
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Solid Squares Bed Quilt
Bright solid-color squares pop off the gray background in this simple-to-sew grid quilt.
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Blooming 16-Patch Throw
Darker tone-on-tones in this quilt act stand out against lighter prints to create a diamond shape on this wall hanging. Frame the quilt with head-turning borders.
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Reproduction-Look Doll Quilt
Triangle-squares rotate this way and that to create an overall diamond pattern. A variety of prints are held together visually by the use of a single solid blue fabric.
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Bright Four-Patch Throw
Rich black tone-on-tone background fabrics let lively Four-Patch units sparkle in this Amish-look quilt.
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Circle and Square Throw
Use a solid tan to help circles and squares stand out on a quick and easy lap quilt.
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