May 6, 2024
Quilting in Color: Meet the Kona Spring/Summer Color Trends Palette
Bouquets of fresh-cut flowers. Golden sunshine. Azure skies dotted with white clouds. From the first blooms of springtime to the poolside popsicles of summer, warm weather means COLOR.
This year, Missouri Star Quilt Co has partnered with Kona Cotton to create a spring/summer palette featuring the hottest trends of the season. We’ve paired dreamy pastels with vibrant, joyful colors. Together, they harmonize like a beautifully balanced rainbow.
Choose your favorite hues by the yard, or enjoy the full spectrum with a package of precuts.
How to Dream a Color Scheme
Building a color palette is a delicate dance of color theory, market research, and pure artistic talent. For this collection, our talented designers dove into trend forecasts to understand what folks are loving in 2024. They pored over 365 swatches of beautiful Kona Cotton, carefully selecting eighteen colors as delicious as their names: Dragon fruit. Bubble gum. Nectarine.
Pieced together, these colors blend and enhance the beauty of one another. They’re sweet. They’re happy. They’re just so Missouri Star.
Sewing and Quilting Projects for Spring/Summer Color Trends
What will you make with these playful pinks and balmy blues? We’ve got you covered! From quilts to pillows to front-porch decor, we’ll help you find the perfect project.
Dogwood Blossoms Quilt Pattern
Jenny’s newest quilt is made with the Spring/Summer Color Trends layer cake and Tri-Recs Triangle Ruler by Darlene Zimmerman & Joy Hoffman.
This pattern was designed by HollyAnne Knight of String & Story. It’s bold and modern, with one-color flowers on a cypress green background—a perfect showcase for all those swanky hues.
Main Squeeze Pillow
The Main Squeeze Pillow features Orange Peel applique blossoms. It’s made with a traditional square-in-a-square block and precut fat quarters.
Solstice Quilt
Misty’s Solstice quilt is a modern masterpiece made with Kona Solids yardage and the small Drunkard's Path Circle Template Set.
Quilted Ottoman
Jenny’s Jelly Roll Race is such a delight; it’s among our most popular quilt tutorials. But if you chop it into pieces and sew it up just so…it becomes a cute n’ cushy ottoman!
The Bright Spring Porch
Banish winter blahs with the Bright Spring porchscape. These color-drenched projects are filled with petals, pom-poms, and butterfly wings. Go strictly solid with Spring/Summer Color Trends, or pair ‘em with complementary prints.
We’d love to see what you make - tag us on Instagram with #msqcshowandtell!
Published by Danae M.