Hot Summer Quilts
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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Summer Spinner
Celebrate summer with a wall quilt that combines traditional Pinwheel blocks and 25 colorful prints.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Appliqué Fan Quilt
Appliquéd fans in sky blue and sunny yellow are perfect for a day spent outdoors.
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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 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.