quilt project

Free sewing pattern for an Autumn quilt!

by modes4u October 29, 2020

We at our kawaii shop modes4u are paying homage to the season today with a magnificent free sewing pattern that celebrates autumn colors. It is a quilt design by Ariga Mahmoudlou that makes the most out of a gorgeous panel panel fabric by Robert Kaufman featuring a lovely birch copse in all its splendor. This nature fabric will indeed dazzle you with its metallic gold embellishments: check out the images below for a golden close-up!

Birches are slender thin-leaved trees with a delicate appearance, sometimes white-barked like those in the panel. They love boreal and temperate climates, and humans have found a great diversity of uses for their wood, bark and leaves since prehistory. Due to their beauty, especially during autumn, birches are also used for ornamental purposes.

This charming quilt will measure about 107cm x 152cm when finished. The sewing pattern is recommended for beginners, who will have to be extra careful when cutting and assembling the elaborate frames around the birch wood panel, with many little triangles in different shades of brown, red, orange and yellow. If you decide to give it a try, make sure to send us your photos of the finished quilt, as we would love to see and share them! We have included some solid color fabric suggestions as well!

Free sewing pattern for an Autumn quilt! 1

Learn to make this beautiful quilt!

metallic gold fabric with Autumn birch trees by Robert Kaufman

Robert Kaufman Kona cotton fabric light snow cream

Timeless Treasures wine red mini grid design fabric

shimmery solid white Cosmo cotton sheeting fabric

solid mustard yellow Alexander Henry Ghastlies fabric

solid dark olive green fabric by Cosmo

October 29, 2020 0 comment

Free sewing pattern for an Asian themed quilt!

by modes4u September 25, 2020

Some flower fabric designs make us feel like there is something magical floating about them! Hyun Joo Lee is one of the designers working for Robert Kaufman fabrics whose Asian-style floral works usually have this effect on us. Some of her gorgeous designs from the series Florentine Garden recently arrived in our kawaii shop, and we find them just stunning!

If you like sewing and Asian style fabrics, like those in the well known Imperial Collection series, here is a treat for you: a free sewing pattern for a quilt, using the absolutely beautiful fabrics by Hyun Joo Lee! Patterns feature different lovely flowers with metallic gold embellishment, and her chosen colors are ivory, turquoise, purple, and blue. We love each and every single one of them! The finished project is a square quilt measuring 157 x 157cm, and will be a magnificent addition to anyone’s bedroom.

This free pattern is recommended for sewing enthusiasts with intermediate skills, and you will be using many different fabric cut shapes arranged to form a central star alternatively surrounded by complex and simple frames. Go for it if you have some quilting experience and are ready to keep on perfecting your abilities! We’ve included some fabrics for you to check out and try in this pattern, plus a solid color fabric suggestion!

And do send us photos when you finish this fabulous quilt: you know there is a kind of magic in sharing what you do, too 😉

Free sewing pattern for an Asian themed quilt! 1

You can make this lovely quilt!

metallic gold and cream fabric with blue poppy flowers by Robert Kaufman

Robert Kaufman dark blue and metallic gold poppy flower fabric

sky blue and metallic gold poppy flower fabric by Robert Kaufman

Robert Kaufman metallic gold and cream sakura flower fabric

solid dark marine blue Kona cotton fabric by Robert Kaufman

September 25, 2020 0 comment

Free sewing pattern for a flower quilt!

by modes4u May 27, 2020

As most of our fabric fans know, we have recently received lots of gorgeous new Timeless Treasures fabrics. One of our favorite designers for this brand is Chong-a Hwang, who exuberantly delights in color and nature, as well as in tastefully exploring aesthetic traditions from her Asian roots. Today we are sharing with you a new free sewing pattern for a quilt featuring one of her colorful floral designs.

This pattern makes use of pieces of fabric cut in basic shapes: strips, triangles, rectangles and squares. There is a simple triple outside frame in purple, light aquamarine and rainbow colors, plus a more complex frame around the central panel. This rich inner frame is composed of eight-pointed-stars triplets, set on 2 diagonally opposing corners, and joined by wide colorful bands made out of fabric rectangles featuring flower and small bird patterns. The finished quilt measures about 1.85 x 1.47 meters (or 58 x 73 inches).

Take a look at the pictures below for the finished quilt! We have also included some other images of colorful flower fabrics from our kawaii selection plus solid color fabrics to complement the design, in the hopes that they will inspire you to try some quilting 😉 Good luck with your sewing, and remember to please send us photos of your own finished sewing projects, we do love to see and share them!

This quilt is STUNNING!

colorful blooming flowers panel fabric by Timeless Treasures

light blue Timeless Treasures fabric with tossed colorful birds

small pink flower fabric by Timeless Treasures

digital print flower panel Timeless Treasures fabric

turquoise fabric by Timeless Treasures with mini grid design

Cosmo solid purple fabric

solid light green Cosmo fabric

May 27, 2020 0 comment

Free sewing pattern for a kawaii car racing quilt!

by modes4u January 14, 2020

Are you just starting to learn the ropes of quilting, and would like to make an easy but brilliant project? Would you like to create a fun and convenient home textile that is great for a young kid’s room? Are you looking for sewing projects that are beautiful, useful and playful? Here is a free sewing pattern by Elise Lea that you are definitely going to love! It uses Robert Kaufman fabric, specifically a panel fabric from their Let’s Go series, featuring colorful vehicles and a winding road panel, to create a really cute quilt…plus some soft toys to play along with!!

Yes, that’s right! This quilt will not only be useful as a decorative item, or to keep any young one warm in bed: it will also work as a soft playmat for some fun toy car racing. Therefore, it makes for a great gift that both parents and young kids will greatly enjoy! We love the car fabric included in the design, featuring construction vehicles and more! Take a look at the images below: you will see the full central panel fabric, with its 8-shaped road among houses and trees, as well as 8 different vehicles on top and bottom rows. We’ve also included suggestions for solid color fabric you can use for the borders and binding. The finished project measures about 142 x 173 cm (or 56 x 68 inches).

We hope you have just found your next sewing project! It is really very easy, in fact it’s recommended for beginners, and should not take long to complete. Do send us your photos of the finished quilt, we would love to see them!

What a fun and kawaii quilt project!

Robert Kaufman town and car race panel fabric in white

white Robert Kaufman construction vehicle and fire engine fabric

solid black fabric Robert Kaufman USA Kona Black

solid buttercup yellow Kona cotton fabric by Robert Kaufman

solid light turquoise Pool Kona cotton fabric by Robert Kaufman

Kona cotton fabric in bright solid lime green by Robert Kaufman

Cardinal solid red Kona fabric Robert Kaufman USA

January 14, 2020 0 comment

Paw-ssibly the funniest cat quilt of the season? Get the free sewing pattern here!

by modes4u October 29, 2019

We just found an incredibly charming quilt design by Wendy Sheppard, featuring a great panel fabric of the Feline Friends collection by Michael Miller, and of course had to share its free sewing pattern here! Some of the fabrics in the series, featuring a gang of really cute and funny cartoon-like cats and kittens, have recently arrived in our Hong Kong store, and have been a real source of enjoyment for us all! 🙂 This project will suit any cat lover with some sewing experience and skills, being recommended for confident beginners.

The quilt uses a panel fabric made up of smaller rectangular panels with different cat-related designs, and you will need to cut each of these to use them separately. Check the images below for an overview of the quilt, some close-ups and our picture of the full panel fabric required. You will see the basic design alternates those smaller panels with rectangular pieces of other cat fabrics in the series over a white background, all joined together by blue and white horizontal and vertical sashing blocks. Undoubtedly, the clever cat corner blocks are our favorite design feature!! They make all the difference when framing each small panel. 🙂

The whole picture is then surrounded by matching frames, plus the outer binding, again in white and some other colorful fabrics with flowers and cats. We’ve included adorable cat fabrics you can try out here, plus some lovely solid color fabrics too.

This may paw-ssibly be the funniest cat quilt of the season! What do you think of it? Do not wait any longer, let yourself be carried away by cute cat-fueled inspiration! Remember to send us images of the finished project, as we always love to see what you do, and would love to share them! 🙂

Paw-ssibly the funniest cat quilt of the season? Get the free sewing pattern here! 1

Michael Miller colorful panels fabric with cats

Michael Miller fabric with striped cat pattern

Michael Miller white cat fabric

cute white Michael Miller fabric colourful Calico Cat

birch organic fabric in solid blue

Aqua blue solid Kona fabric Robert Kaufman USA

light blue fabric by Timeless Treasures

October 29, 2019 0 comment

Make a Flower Fairies Collage Quilt!

by modes4u October 24, 2019

We just found a stunning free sewing pattern and had to share it with you, whether you’re an experienced sewing wizard or a confident beginner in the art of quilting! It is with great pleasure that we dedicate this post to another set of lovely fabrics in the Elderberry Flower Fairies collection by Michael Miller.

This specific quilt makes the most out of a gorgeous fabric with a collage-like or patchwork design: here, the well beloved fantasy creatures and their companion flowers cleverly populate a background of rectangles and circles adorned with different directional patterns, where the color palette features periwinkle, teal and different shades of blue, balanced with two different peach-pink tones. Check out the images below for a general view of the finished quilt and the collage fabric.

All textile designs in the Flower Fairies series revolve around the original classic illustrations created by Cicely M. Barker, mixing delightful fairy children and a truly exquisite rendering of many real flowers. She was influenced by previous artists belonging to the so-called Golden Age of Illustration, like Beatrix Potter, Kate Greenaway and others.

We hope to have helped you get inspired and motivated to try your hand at this beautiful project. Do not forget to send us pictures of your finished flower fairies quilt, we would love to see and share them!

What a stunning quilt!

colorful Michael Miller fairy and elderberry flower collage fabric

light purple Michael Miller elderberry flower fairy fabric

peach-pink elderberry flower fairy fabric by Michael Miller

light purple fabric with silver metallic embellishment by Michael Miller

blue sky clouds fabric by Timeless Treasures

Art Gallery Fabrics pink diamond fabric

October 24, 2019 0 comment

Here’s a purrfectly precious free sewing pattern!

by modes4u October 18, 2019

Recently some gorgeous Michael Miller fabrics arrived in our shop, and we are enthusiastically admiring many of their new designs, knowing for certain that they will be a source of visual joy for as long as stock lasts! However, we also know many of our customers are great fans of this popular textile company, so these beautiful designs may likely be gone for good pretty soon. Therefore, let us make the most of them while we can!

Here is a great way to do so: a wonderful free sewing pattern by Natalie Crabtree for a meowvellous quilt. It uses a delightful panel fabric plus some other designs from the collection Feline Friends, which – yes, you guessed right – is all about the funniest and cutest cats. Check out the images below for an overview of the finished project!

You will need just a little quilting experience to succeed with this free quilt pattern. It features different sized fabric strips that frame the panel, together with some blocks using triangles and squares, and the clever balls of yarn marking two of the corners. Any beginner willing to practice newly acquired sewing skills will enjoy this pattern, and probably learn a few useful tricks from it. In the hope that we help you get inspired, we have added pictures of some other cat fabrics in our online shop. Enjoy, and do not forget to share with us your own photos of the quilt, should you decide to give it a go!

What a creative kitty quilt!

colorful big cat panel fabric by Michael Miller

Michael Miller fabric with striped cat pattern

Trans-Pacific Textiles light blue lucky cat fabric

cream quilting fabric with cats

light blue batik fabric by Timeless Treasures with cat faces

navy blue cat face fabric by Robert Kaufman

Michael Miller cat fabric in white

turquoise fabric with small cats by Dear Stella

cat fabric by Alexander Henry in off-white

October 18, 2019 0 comment

Enjoy this free sewing pattern for a watermelon quilt!

by modes4u September 20, 2019

We want to share here a beautiful and fun free sewing pattern for a project that requires just a little quilting experience to succeed! You will get the chance to hone your basic skills with a fresh design that is all about watermelon fabric!

Check out the images included below for an overview of the finished project: a square quilt slightly larger than 1.48m which will finely decorate a child’s bed, or warm you up on your comfy sofa. The quilt uses Timeless Treasures fabrics, and starts inside out with a central pinwheel shape made of large triangles in light pink, dark pink with black ants, and watermelon slices on a black background.

Thin green strips surround this central motif, seemingly introducing the first of two main frames completing the design: it features light cream fabric squares with watermelon slices in each corner, plus a clever composition of triangles combining the green fabric and a super funny one in pink with lots of watermelon-ish items. Enclosing this, we see thin green strips again, and a final delightful outside frame: four fabric squares in dark pink with ants for the corners, joined by strips of green mini squares and watermelon slices on a light background.

Remember to send us your own photos of the finished project if you decide to give it a go. We would love to see and share it!

What a fun and kawaii quilt design!

light pink watermelon summer accessory fabric by Timeless Treasures

black watermelon slice fabric by Timeless Treasures

watermelon slice fabric by Timeless Treasures in white

dark pink ant fabric by Timeless Treasures

mini grid design pink fabric by Timeless Treasures

Timeless Treasures mini grid design hot pink fabric

Birch organic fabric in clover green

September 20, 2019 0 comment

Unleash your inner artist with this free quilt sewing pattern!

by modes4u August 23, 2019

If you are a lover of the arts, besides a fan of needle and thread, you will probably enjoy very much the free sewing pattern we want to share here today. It is a marvelous design by Elise Lea, with the wondrous panel fabric by Robert Kaufman featuring Gustav Klimt‘s famous painting, The Tree of Life. The Austrian genius loved using gold leaves in many of his paintings, therefore plenty of Gustav Klimt fabrics with golden hues are used to complete the quilt pattern. All of them belong to the Robert Kaufman fabrics collection, named after the symbolist painter, where many of his remarkably original designs can be enjoyed in textile form.

This pattern is recommended for those who have some quilting & sewing experience: the required level is defined as Intermediate. You will see in the images included below that the panel with the tree is delightfully framed with multiple strips, most of them pretty easy to cut and sew. There is however a wide strip made out of gorgeous blocks on the bottom and side of the central panel which will require some work to complete. Created with dark triangles and squares that are themselves made out of colored mini squares, it stands out beautifully.

The finished quilt measures about 120 x 145cm, and you can choose any of your favorite fabrics as backing, although we would advise to match the main colors used for the quilt top: beside gold, there are red, black, ivory and blue. Do not forget to send us pictures of the finished project if you decide to undertake it, as we would love to see and share them!

You can learn how to make this quilt!

brown gold metallic tree panel fabric Robert Kaufman Gustav Klimt

red brown diamond shape gold metallic fabric Robert Kaufman Gustav Klimt

blue brown diamond shape gold metallic fabric Robert Kaufman Gustav Klimt

blue triangle gold metallic fabric Robert Kaufman Gustav Klimt

black gold metallic purple green oval shape fabric Robert Kaufman Gustav Klimt

metallic gold and black brushstrokes fabric by Robert Kaufman

Robert Kaufman oval shape fabric in grey and metallic gold

Robert Kaufman red and metallic gold brushstrokes fabric

August 23, 2019 0 comment

Learn to make this breathtaking Effervescence quilt with a FREE sewing pattern!

by modes4u August 16, 2019

Sometimes, you just need a quilt design that exudes freshness and creativity. If that’s the case for you, we just found what we believe is a great free sewing pattern you’ll definitely want to try out! You’ll just want to have a little practice under your belt as the recommended sewing level for this specific design is Intermediate.

This design uses Robert Kaufman panel fabrics. Just like many of our customers, we are great fans of their Effervescence fabrics, so this quilt using designs from their Effervescence Digital collection immediately caught our eye! We’ve included a few more colors in our list of fabric recommendations so you can also try out this project in different tones! We also have a different quilt pattern using Effervescence Digital fabrics on our blog, which you can take a look at here.

It is a good chance to try your hand at working with cuts of different sizes and shapes, especially stripes and squares. The geometric features of this design mean that accuracy becomes most relevant for a successful and balanced result, so you should take extra care to keep all those lines really straight.

Thus, with sewing tools at the ready, check out the images below to get an idea of what you may soon be enjoying in your own room, maybe on your own bed! If you like the design and are willing to go for it, but are unsure of how it will suit your own home décor, remember that anything you make with your own hands is a truly unique gift, and that a handmade quilt is a very valuable piece of artful sewing. Any loved one you know getting married, or moving into a new home? Well, this is a mighty fine gift, if you can complete it on time for such a special event. Take into account that the finished quilt measures about 184 x 184cm.

We hope you enjoy working on this quilt. Don’t forget to share with us pictures of the finished project if you decide to take it on!