Colors trends are fascinating. I love seeing what color combos catch on and start popping up all over my favorite quilting blogs. The gray and yellow quilt color trend is one that I have particularly taken a liking to. The combination of gray and yellow is calming and is great for many types of decor. It's especially fantastic (and popular) for baby quilts because it's color neutral, so a yellow and gray baby quilt would be great for a boy or a girl. Here is a roundup of some of my favorite uses of gray and yellow fabric combinations in quilts. You can also find some free quilt patterns that would look great in gray and yellow in our how-to section. Star Bright This is a fun, simple and modern star baby quilt done in soft gray and yellow. It was designed by Katie Blakesley from Swim Bike Quilt for the 100 Quilts for Kids Charity Quilt Drive. This is definitely a beginner-friendly quilt, and is available as a baby or throw-size quilt. She also includes instructions for making "Star Bright" with pre-cuts, charm packs or a layer cake. The quilt can easily be made with scraps or assorted fat quarters, prints or solids, or a mix of both. Find the free star quilt pattern at her pattern store. Chain Linked This modern gray and yellow quilt is Amy Smart's "Chain Linked" pattern and this quilt was made by Catherine of My Life In Binding. She did a guest post on Quilt Story Blog for this particular quilt. I really love the contrast with the dark gray mixed with light gray and yellow. It looks amazing against the snowy background and blue sky! Find the story behind this quilt and what fabrics were used over at Quilt Story. Embracing Gray Many people, like Alissa from Handmade by Alissa, feel conflicted about using gray in their projects. She ended up loving it though, as did her husband! She is a member of the Modern Quilt Guild and she makes some amazing quilts that she puts up on her blog. This one is very simple but it packs a punch. Check out her cute quilt models in more pics of this asymmetrical quilt on her blog. Gray and Yellow Strip Quilt This stash quilt is absolutely gorgeous! The fabrics go perfectly together and the simple design just makes it so much more appealing. This was done by Leanne at Make it Perfect. Find out more about this show stopping gray and yellow strip quilt at Make it Perfect. Flying Geese Flying geese quilts are fun because you can play around with color and fabric to make them unique. This gray and yellow quilt made by Emily from Emmy Lizzy has varying shades of yellow and gray mixed in with different fabric patterns to make it a modern wonder. Head to EmmyLizzy to find out more on this gray and yellow flying geese quilt. Hand Quilted Crosshatch This gray and yellow quilt really caught my eye. I haven't seen many like it and the kicker is that it was hand quilted! Blair Stocker calls it her "Wintertime Sunshine" quilt. Find out about the process of making this quilt at Blair's Blog, Wisecraft. Broken Plaid This is another quilt made by Alissa from Handmade by Alissa. This gray and yellow quilt she made is pretty unique, as you don't see many quilts that use dark gray as the base color. She used straight line quilting, which is also something else you don't see a lot of. Here, the texture adds to the great design. Check out more pictures of this quilt at Handmade by Alissa. Follow CraftFoxes's board Quilt Patterns + Tutorials on Pinterest. Find more of our favorite Quilts, Patterns and Tutorials on our Pinterest Quilting Board!

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The third of the memory quilts from my grandfather's shirts is finished, and this one has a decidedly campy feel. I'm pretty pleased with the final result! These photos were taken in a brief break from the rain we've had all morning. So, even though I envisioned a photo shoot in the woods with a camp chair and sleeping bag, I had to settle for quick photos taken in my backyard. Oh well! The quilting, backing and binding have been the same on each quilt. I've been trying to use details like this to keep the set unified. It is quilted with stippling, and the backing is Kona Coal with a chambray stripe. The binding is Kona Rich Red. I love how the red binding just sets the whole thing off. I think the Kona Biscuit sashing really makes the quilt feel more woodsy, as well as the pattern. It feels a little bit like a giant log cabin to me. And, of course it has to get labeled (using my own method found HERE)! I have just one more of these to finish, and the last one will have a preppy/nautical vibe. I'm planning to do a plaid chevron quilt with navy and white thrown in.

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I was really excited to have the opportunity to design a block for Jane's Desperate House Wives quilt. And then I got stressed (I've never designed a block from scratch before). And then I went into denial about having to do it. And finally last night I was mucking around with Touchdraw (using Lynne's fantastic tutorials) and came up with this: I'm calling it Woven Chevron block (cos I'm so great at coming up with creative names for things!). Why woven? Well, if you put multiple blocks together, you'll get something like this: That's only four blocks, but you get the idea... So how to make this little pretty? I used solids for mine (Kona Ash, Kona Orange and Kona Surf) but you could use any combination of solids/prints. I'd probably avoid directional fabrics cos it would be quite tricky to make it all line up. I did actually take photos for the first part of this tutorial, but then my camera died, and we didn't have ANY batteries around. So you'll have to bear with descriptions for the first part sorry! Anyhoo, you'll need to cut: From background fabric (Ash): * Four 2 1/2" squares * Four 3" squares. * Two 3 1/2" squares From colour 1 (Surf): * Four 3" squares * One 3 1/2" squares From Colour 2 (Orange) * Four 3" squares * One 3 1/2" square. Right. Lets deal with the cross-over squares first (the woven ones). I'm sure these have a proper name, but I'm going to call them cross-over squares cos that's what they are in this block. 1. Take your 3.5" squares (two background and one of each colour). Pair a coloured square with a background square, and draw a diagonal line from one corner to the other on both the background squares. 2. Sew along both sides of the line, 1/4" away from the line. 3. Cut along this line, creating two half-square triangles from each of your pairs (total of four HSTs) 4. Press your seams open (or to the side, I prefer open) 5. Trim your HSTs to 3" squares. You should now have four HST squares - two surf/ash and two orange/ash. 6. Pair each of your surf/ash squares with an Orange 3" square, and pair each of your orange/ash squares with a Surf 3" square. 7. Draw a line diagonally through each of the solid 3" squares (ie two orange and two surf). When you pair these with it's HST partner, make sure the drawn line runs PERPENDICULAR to the HST line (see below). 8. Again, sew either side of the line, 1/4" away (as per #2) and cut along the line. 9. Press your seams open. You'll end up with eight squares (two pairs of each of those below). You will only need to use the two like that at the top left, and the bottom right. 10. We'll be trimming these to 2.5" squares. First, line up the 45 degree line on your ruler with the long diagonal seam on your block, and trim off the side. Then turn your square 90 degrees to the right, and line up the 45 degree line with the short diagonal seam, and the 2.5" line along the bottom of the square. Trim this side. Continue turning your square and trimming until you have a 2.5" crossover square. Repeat for the remaining three crossover squares. Right, now the tricky stuff is done, we can make the other HSTs. 11. Pair your remaining 3" squares as per the photo. Follow steps 1-4 and make a total of eight HSTs. 12. Trim them to 2.5" squares. All the preparatory work is done now. So you can lay out your HSTs, background 2.5" squares and crossovers like so: 13. Sew the squares in each row together: 14. Sew your rows together, and you're done! Please ignore my awful points - I promise not to leave these things to the last minute again! UPDATE: this is bugging me so much, I'm going to rip it apart and resew it together. Better block to come (hopefully!) :o) I hope you enjoyed my tutorial! Thanks again to Jane for inviting me to design a block :o) xx Jess

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I finished and named this quilt Pointed yesterday. She is 50" square and is made from Michael Miller fabrics and a bunch of solids that were on my shelf. After the helpful input of the Instagrammers, I decided on a black binding to match the sashing. I have to say that working with black is not the easiest thing, but it sure makes the colours pop. Pointed is the quilt I made for the Modern Quilt Guild Michael Miller fabric challenge. The lovely folks at Michael Miller Fabrics send participating modern quilt guilds and members the above set of fat eights of fabric. The challenge was to make something quilted with them. The rule was that you could add any solid or any other Michael Miller print or solid you wanted to but no other fabric. I decided to make improv diamonds using a white and grey solids. I trimmed each diamond to a rectangular shape. I decided to use some Kona black fabric for the background. I laid out the improv diamonds in a roughly diamond shape and then measured and cut pieces to fill in the spaces. There were a few resulting Y seams, which I, invariably encounter when working this way. I like to think they are there to remind me that improv is not that easy. I quilted Pointed with wavy lines using a light grey slightly variegated Wonderfil thread. I wanted the quilting to be a strong feature and to not obliterate the feature fabrics. By the time I had the top together, all that black and orange was looking a lot like Halloween to me. So I embraced that theme and picked these Michael Miller fabrics for the back. The oranges are by Laura Gunn and the black birds are by Violet Craft - two of my most favourite fabric designers. This quilt is going to be my fall lap quilt, with just enough Halloween-y feel to it to work. You can see the scale better on my new garden swing - the swing will seat three people. Also, you can see that we are in the height of summer here when the grass turns brown if you don't water it and since water is in short supply on this island, the grass is not watered. The grass is also longish, so it makes the quilt a bit bumpy - maybe more like it might appear draped over a person - when you toss it down but in real life it is square. This quilt is also a finish for Q3 of the FAL and my July finish for AYOLF. Best, Leanne

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