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Hot Summer Quilts

June 14, 2013

Heat up your summer quilting with tropical prints, citrus colors, and beachworthy designs. You’ll find all the patterns you need, including throws and table toppers, 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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Beach Umbrella Table Runner

Use stripe fabric to mimic an overhead view of umbrellas at the beach.

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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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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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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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Watermelon Table Topper

Use the flip-and-sew method to make this watermelon table runner.

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Ice Cream Wall Art

Treat yourself to a foundation-pieced ice cream cone block. Frame it for cool wall decor.

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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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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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Summer Sea Glass Table Runner

Tone-on-tone prints in sea glass hues sparkle in a table runner just right for summer.

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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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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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Hot Summer Quilts

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Life's a Picnic

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Beach Umbrella Table Runner

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Garden Party

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Lemon Bars

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Summer Breeze

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Split-Rail Summer

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Beachy Waves

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Bee Happy

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Star-Spangled Summer

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Summer Snapshots

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Summer Salsa

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Sailing Ships

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Pineapple Chunks

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What's the Buzz?

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Summer Refreshers

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Watercolors

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Cherry Delight

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Pink Lemonade

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Watermelon Table Topper

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Ice Cream Wall Art

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Ships Ahoy!

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Colorful Fun Daisies

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Splash of Summer

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Summer Stars Table Topper

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Summer Chevrons

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Beachy T-Shirt Throw