Free pattern day! Sun & Moon quilts

Happy solstice! Here are some fantastic FREE patterns for Sun and Moon quilts.  NOTE: This post has been UPDATED.  For the latest patterns please visit our Free Pattern Day for Sun & Moon Quilts (CLICK HERE!) 

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Image credits: This post was updated on June 20, 2025. All images are copyrighted by their owners. Please respect their generosity in sharing their free patterns, and the restrictions they have placed on the use of these designs. Complete information can be found at the designers' websites provided in the links.  Some of these are tutorials while others have downloadable (.pdf) patterns; we have tried to note which is which in the title above each photo.  If any links are broken, we'd love to know; email us at Quilt Inspiration {at} gmail {dot} com. 

Two-million-view milestone: Part 2

Quilt Inspiration recently hit a major milestone, with over 2 million page views.  We're taking the time to say THANKS to the many talented artists who inspire us all.  Here is Part 2 of our retrospective, with some contemporary quilts we've featured.

Reversible patched pojagi table runner by Victoria Gertenbach

Pojagi stitching, as explained by Victoria Gertenbach,  is a Korean art of seam construction which produces beautiful flat reinforced seams that add to the visual appeal of  works, especially with  bulky denims or delicate thin silks or voiles. For more information see our October 2011 post, Modern Quilting at The Silly Boodilly. 

Sparkling Spools by Laura Nownes 
 

We love simple patterns that look spectacular. "Sparkling Spools" is just one of Laura Nownes' Simply Strip Pieced Patterns. For more information see our June 2011 post, Simple Shapes by Diana and Laura.

Walks In the Woods by Frieda Anderson

Frieda Anderson's quilts almost always reflect her fascination with nature, and what she sees on her walks. This quilt celebrates the trees in the woods, with golden sunlight shining through the leaves.  For more information see our 2010 post, Dances with Nature: The Quilts of Frieda Anderson.

Totally Tubular Triangles by Rita Hutchens

We love the contemporary design and colors of this quilt, which is the subject of one of Rita Hutchens' workshops. Her tubular strip-piecing techniques, which are a cross between Seminole and Bargello, are the subject of her book of Totally Tubular Quilts.  For more information see our July 2012 post, Totally Tubular Quilts by Rita Hutchens.

Tiny Town, 17 x 17", by Karen Eckmeier at The Quilted Lizard

Wouldn't it be fun to live in this miniature village with its brilliant hues?  Tiny Town is a collage of small overlapping fabric pieces cut into rectangles, triangles, stair steps, window and door shapes.  For more information see our October 2012 post, The Quilted Lizard: designs by Karen Eckmeier.

Shots and Stripes quilt by Kaffe Fassett and Liza Prior Lucy

The 2013 book Shots and Stripes: 24 New Projects Made with Shot Cottons and Striped Fabrics by Kaffe Fassett and Liza Prior Lucy is the newest of the books that showcase Kaffe's fabulous fabrics. One of the intriguing projects is this contemporary take on the traditional "Lady of the Lake" pattern.  For more information see our April 2013 post, Winner of Kaffe Fassett Quilts: Shots and Stripes.

Paisley by Bruce Seeds

Bruce Seeds' quilts are composed of small triangles that are grouped into hexagons, each hexagon resembling the view through a kaleidoscope. In "Paisley", Bruce created the illusion of a third dimension by placing some of the lighter blocks on top of a black inner border and frame. For more information see our February 2011 post, Seeds of Genius.

Image credits:  Images are shown with the generous permission of the artists.

Modern quilting at The Silly Boodilly

Victoria Gertenbach hails from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, probably the most famous area in the nation for traditional patchwork quilting.  However, Victoria utilizes her fabulous skills to design and construct quilts with a very contemporary focus, as you will see below.

Reconstruction 1 by Victoria Gertenbach at The Silly Boodilly

Victoria originally set out to make a quilt solely from recycled denim, when she realized that the twill weave fabric was so stretched out of shape that it puckered severely when she tried to quilt it.  Rather than give up ( which we might be tempted to do !) she turned this quilting challenge into the greatest strength of this work. 

Victoria made the ingenious decision to add beautiful orange-red applique Japanese fabric patches to the areas where the denim fabric was most distorted. She carried through this  motif by enhancing the quilt with long straight rows of orange-red stitching which create beautiful vertical and horizontal lines. She also used the Japanese fabric for the binding, which adds a very eye-catching and lively energy to the utilitarian and vintage look of the denim.

Reversible patched pojagi table runner at The Silly Boodilly

Pojagi stitching, as explained by Victoria, is a Korean art of sewing seam construction which produces beautiful flat reinforced seams that add to the visual appeal of  works, especially with  bulky denims or delicate thin silks or voiles. After stitching, the edges of the  seam allowances are carefully turned underneath themselves, then stitched down again.  As you can see above, this technique, expertly rendered by Victoria in this reverse patched table runner, creates a clean, crisp, geometric effect. We love the restful, serene, monochromatic colors here, so evocative of the ocean and sky.   

Mini scrap quilt at The Silly Boodilly

Victoria's creative and highly unique work is for sale at her Etsy Shop, the link to which is shown on The Silly Boodilly sidebar.  Here, she has designed and constructed a quilt in beautiful cool hues of grape and cyan blue, contrasted with warm hues of  gold, brown, and burnt orange. Victoria refers to this very artistic piece as a "scrap" quilt, but to our eyes, it is so perfectly designed and thought out, that there is nothing "scrappy" about it.  One of Victoria's many strengths is that even though she sometimes works with recycled fabric and small pieces of leftovers, her work always contains thoroughly unified motifs, with careful and exacting arrangement of colors and patterns.