4 Quilts • 1 Pattern • 4 Designs

Hi Friends…Do I have a fun post for you!!! I’m going to share four different quilts with you, all made from the same quilt pattern, and quilted with four different quilting designs. Have I piqued your interest?

You may be wonder why we would make four of the same quilts. Truth, we’ve actually made this same quilt two other times. It’s our favorite baby boy quilt. It’s modern, fresh, and fun. I have a very large extended family. When one of my cousins has their first baby, they receive a baby quilt from my mom and me. My mom sews the quilts, and I do the quilting. We then tell those who receive one of our quilts to use them!! No sense in having the quilt folded up on a self and not get used. Which means my mom machine binds them, in hopes that they will be so loved and washed often…and yet still hold up. I love it when we can share something we love to do, with someone we love. Plus, I really love getting pictures of their cute babies having tummy time on their quilt.

The pattern is in Modern Patchwork’s Sept/Oct 2018 magazine issue. It’s by Krystina Hopkins and is called Star Shadows. It’s a good size quilt…great for toddlers. I actually want to make a throw size and do six stars instead of just the four stars.

I have oodles of pictures to share, just so you can see all the fun textures in the four different quilting designs.

My mom and her sister have a online fabric shop, which is where she gets the fabrics that she uses. She loves to use Bella solids, except for the gray it’s a Moda Cross Weave. Our favorite white is the Bella 200. I love the modern look of solid colored fabrics.

For all four quilts I used Natural White Omni thread from Superior Threads, and my favorite 8020 cotton poly blend batting from Winline Textiles. My mom actually pieced batting for one of the quilts, with the leftovers from two other quilts.

I love the shadowed effect that is created with the gray and blue fabrics.

Can you see why we love this quilt?!?!?! My mom made three of the four quilts at the same time. I helped a little…just pressing. Which helped her sew faster.

For this particular quilt, I used my digital Cornerstone quilting design. It quilts out beautifully, as you can see, with very minimal backtracking.

Next up…same quilt, another quilting design. It's great to see the difference in what a quilt can look like, with different quilting designs. This texture is fabulous…they all are, but I am a little biased!!

Love this close up of the block and quilting!!!

An angled look at the texture.

This design is one of my Domestic Stitches designs, called Domestic Stitches - Squared, designed to mimic designs that domestic quilters quilt on their quilts with their sewing machines. Which, believe it or not, is hard for longarm quilters to do. After getting requests over the years, and hearing other quilters get the same requests, I decided to design 9 different designs. I actually offer them in a bundle…which means you get 9 designs for the price of 8 designs. I used one of the other designs on one of these quilts , too.

Another close up…because why not!

Quilt number three…

Another fun texture, don’t you think?!?!?!!!

This is the first time that I have quilted out this design…which is the same for the other designs, with the exception of the Cornerstone design.

This design is called Steps, and I can’t believe its taken me this long to quilt it out. I designed it back in 2019. I can’t wait to use it again. It lined up great from row to row, even after advancing it.

Love this texture…it creates so many fun angles and shapes.

In this video, which I created a few years ago, I share some tips on lining up quilting designs after I advance a quilt to the next section. I actually do this with every single quilt that I quilt edge to edge, whether they rows touch or not. Let me know if you have any questions.

Last, but certainly not least…

This quilt has a more minty bluish green color, instead of the blue used in the other quilts. The fabric color is a little darker in person, but you know…trying to brighten a photo it gets lighter and lighter.

Okay…here is a close up and angled picture. I have shared a similar picture…the one above…of all the quilts. If you look back, you can see the variety of different quilting designs in this same picture. Plus, I love a good closeup picture of a quilt block.

This is another one of my Domestic Stitches designs. This one is Domestic Stitches - Triangles. I quilted it at a 5.5” height, which is perfect to make this quilt cuddly. My friend Kaitlyn from Knot and Thread, just used it on her Lemur quilt and did it super small at 2.25” height. Which I want to try sometime! This design also lines up great!!

Here is a great look at the minty color of fabric!! love it!!

I also bound this one by machine myself…which I am not good at, but this time it turned out great!! I need to keep doing it to get better at it. I still prefer to hand bind my quilts…it’s my favorite part of the process, which may be because when I’m done, I’m DONE!! Hahaha!!

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope that you enjoyed looking at the same quilt, quilted in four different ways. Have a great week!! And, happy quilting. - Leisha