Quilting by your favorite colors just got easier than ever! With all these free patchwork and applique quilt patterns, and project ideas, you’ll be able to keep your family toasty-warm this winter.
You might even want to make extra quilts for selling or bartering. Start first by organizing all your fabric scraps into different color shadings, as listed below, and then begin quilting.
Blue Shades
For a simple blue floral quilt, with the look of Dresden-dishes, in white with “Bluework Garden”, as shown here in prominent floral squares, is surrounded by brick-layer-staggered patchworking, and blue floral fields, from RJR Fabrics. Yet tiny triangles make up this Dresden-blue themed patchwork quilt, “Little Blue Triangle-Squares” (great for using up small fabric scraps) from AllPeopleQuilt.com.
Also from AllPeopleQuilt.com comes this Early Americana styled, quilt patchwork “Star Formation”, combining shades of brown, beige, and cream with bold lattice-work patterns in federal blue. Along with this Americana-trendy denim-blues hanging quilt, “Focus on the Triangle Blocks”.
Periwinkle blues against highlights of sunshine yellow create an inviting floral quilt-extraordinaire, as presented in “Summer in the Garden Pattern”, as well as this child’s whimsically-colorful “Let’s Party Pattern” in a wavy-lined and bordered panel quilt, along with this enchanting “Patchwork Bouquet Pattern” quilt in blue and green, shimmery-scaling prints, all from Robert Kaufman Fabrics.
Earth Tones
This ever-changing “Kaleidoscope Pattern” wall-hanging quilt, is crafted in graduated shades of brown, beige, tan, chocolate, and cream, which appear to move like airplane propellers when focusing on the different pattern groupings. Another way to use earth tones is with a splash of watery blue, as presented with feminine scalloping, around a diamond-patterned “Empress Bouquet Pattern”, both from Robert Kaufman Fabrics.
For your cowboy, try making this skillful “Blazing Saddles” patchwork quilt, in deep earth tones, with touches of yellow, and blue, using a dark red-bandana paisley border, and lots of horse-wrangling cubes. Browns, cream, tan, and rose mini-printed triangles make up this wall-hanging “Harvest Crossing” quilt, both by RJR Fabrics.
Golden Yellows
Intricate design work is used within each quilt block of this delicate golden-color palette, along with the braided appearance of the border-striping, gives this “Florentine Fantasy Pattern” bed quilt the look of an Indian rug. Or try this child’s playful animal quilt with circle-like patterns in yellows, blues and greens, as pictured in “Monkey in the Middle Pattern”, both from Robert Kaufman Fabrics.
“Kitchen Fans” is a whimsical multi-colored quilt, with strong yellow highlights, and would be a good project for using up all your odd-colored fabric scraps, from RJR Fabrics. Or this golden-sunshine striped “Fat Quarter Twin-Bed Quilt”, mixed with colorful print blocks, makes this so easy for beginners, from AllPeopleQuilt.com.
Greenery
Trendy lime green is the focus for this citrus-flavored floral, and striped, patchwork wall-hanging “Bright On! Quilt Pattern”. Or perhaps this antique-looking deep spruce, and burgundy accented, floral quilt “Hyakkaryouran Pattern”, along with this “Shades of the Season Tablerunner Pattern”, displaying diamond-shaped green leaves, with blue, brown, and golden highlights, perfect for fall entertaining, all from Robert Kaufman Fabrics.
For an updated ’60s stitchery-look combine green and burgundy, with mustard-colored sunflowers, in “Autumn’s Grace Pattern” by Robert Kaufman Fabrics. Soft sage greens and pale terracotta are used in this advanced-quilting-skills “Interweave by Project House 360 features Sayan”, with the look of woven cane, from RJR Fabrics.
Jewel Tones
For dazzling jewel tones set in diamond-patterns (constructed of striped-batiks) shown in positive and negative values, Robert Kaufman Fabrics presents a “Strip Disco Pattern” quilt, as well as this bold modern-art looking, deep colorfully-bejeweled quilt, against a black ground, filled with quilted squiggly lines in “The Fire Within II Pattern”. For a sparkling jewel-toned confetti quilt, as pictured here in “A Thousand Stars” from RJR Fabrics, you will need advanced sewing, and quilting skills.
Pink Florals
Alternating cabbage roses and rosebuds grace this Victorian pink-striped quilt “Mary Rose 6 Pattern”, as is this Victorian flower patch “Rachel’s Reel Pattern” quilt hanging, in deep pink-floral tones, from Robert Kaufman Fabrics. As is this ultra-feminine, pastel pink-coral, and blossoming-roses patchwork, “Summer Bloom Pattern” quilt, which makes a delicately enchanted wall-hanging, perfect for the boudoir.
RJR Fabrics shows us two variations of feminine pink-floral quilts, as in this muted, pale-pink field-of-flowers quilt “Liberty Home” which seems to hide a quietly-centered band of stars. While the striking deep-pink tones, and bold burgundy-wine, ribbon-striping patchwork, on this floral quilt, “Border Garden in Burgundy” is simply breathtaking to behold.
Purple Haze
From AllPeopleQuilt.com, dragonflies fly through every shade of purple, violet, periwinkle, and pale lavender in this rhapsody-of-color quilt, “On the Fly 10-Inch Block”, or in lavender-field floras framing the golden patchwork flowers of this “Asian-Print Applique Wall Quilt”.
Lavender flowers are checker-boarded against swirling lavenders, blues, and cream, in this Victorian looking “Garden Patch Pattern” quilt by Robert Kaufman Fabrics. This eye-popping, yet romantic, lavender ribbons and flowers quilt “Zen Garden Pattern”, along with this wall-hanging quilt “Watercolor Meadows Pattern”, as shown in vibrant waves of purple flowers, bubbles, and triangles, splashed with highlights of green and indigo, are also from Robert Kaufman Fabrics.
Shades of Red
The “Use Novelty Fabrics to Make a Themed Quilt” pattern shows how to combine vibrant shades of red, coral, and burgundy, perfect for Christmas or Valentine’s Day. Along with this graduated red, orange, and yellow collage, which can represent a year’s worth of holidays, by quilting “Position Blocks to Form Bands of Color”, both from AllQuiltPeople.com.
A red and white lacy-look is presented in a “Redwork Garden”, featuring red roses spread over the entire patchwork quilt, by RJR Fabrics, as is this wall-hanging quilt “A Changing Season”, with burgundy-red, and dark coral diamonds over field flowers.
Now you can organize all your scrap fabrics by colors, and jump right into any one of these free quilting patterns shown. Make quilting a family-friendly project with your children or grandchildren, and your heirloom quilts will be treasured for years to come!