Free easy quilt patterns for the kitchen

Check out these free easy quilt patterns for the kitchen for you to download and make for your home or give as gifts throughout the year!

If you are looking for some last-minute ideas for handmade gifts to make for your family and friends, consider these patterns I designed for Blank Quilting. Download the patterns right now, make the gifts, and then, come January – when the fabrics are shipping to stores – get the fabrics to make them just for you!

All these projects (there is a table runner set below!) are fast to make. I love them with the Fruit for Thought collection by Blank Quilting as they are cheerful, bright, and have a vintage feel to them. As you can see, though, they are perfect stash busters, too!

The first pattern has a complete kitchen set: fabric bread baskets, hanging towels, and placemats. The bread baskets measure 7-1/2” x 11” x 2-1/2”. I love this size for small loaves or rolls.

The fabrics in this collection are perfect for the year-round decor of your kitchen. I also like to have the hanging towels made with fabrics for the different holidays and seasons of the year. I chose a design that is simple and does not require advanced sewing techniques.

The towels measure 5” x 15”. Notice how I worked with contrasting fabrics. You can also make the topper with a solid fabric that coordinates with one of the colors of the towel print.

The button can be made with one of the fabrics, or it can be a button you already have. Covering your own buttons is easy and adds whimsy to the project.

These quilted placemats are so fun! The fruit labels are cut from the fabric in pairs so they can be the center of the placemats. Then, just add the borders and the binding. The instructions are detailed, making this an ideal beginner sewist or quilter project.

I use placemats on the kitchen table or counter. They contain crumbs, can be easily washed, and make any meal a cozy event even when you are the only one around.

I meant it when I said these are free easy quilt patterns for the kitchen! The Table Runner Set showcases the mouth-watering fabrics from the Fruit for Thought collection and comes together very quickly, allowing you to refresh your kitchen decoration in a flash. The runner measures 22″ x 64″ and the blocks finish at 13″.

The pattern for the table runner shows you how to assemble it so that you put the squares together into four blocks before stitching them together. As you can see, only a few seams are needed to make the blocks as the goal here was to display the fruits in all their glory, instead of cutting the fabrics into small pieces.

The placemats measure 18” x 14”. For their center, I ‘picked’ the fruit fabrics that offered the most contrast to the border print. Your eyes are immediately drawn to the center first, then you can take the time to feast on the border.

I have also designed placemats that are self-binding (click here for the free pattern) and am just now working on another table runner set design for Blank Quilting featuring placemats without binding, too. Sometimes, as in the case above, the border fabric calls for a dark color as a boundary. In other cases, the border can be featured on its own.

It is fun to design easy quilt projects. At times, ‘easy and fast’ is all we can make, right? And, yet, handmade gifts, even the simple ones, are so satisfying to give and to receive!

Speaking of designing, this is all I have been doing for the past few weeks and the reason why you haven’t heard much from me! I have been knitting in the evenings, too, while I listen to books to relax.

I am looking for another knitting project. It has to be something that does not require me to constantly look at the pattern, otherwise, I lose track of the story I am listening to. Yeah, there is that requirement, too.

Wait, I did make two super cool quilts but I can’t show them to you yet as they will appear soon in the American Quilter magazine. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, enjoy these freebies courtesy of Blank Quilting. And… I hope you are having fun during this Holiday Season. Stop for a cup of coffee or tea, even if you are alone and in between errands. Listen to OTHER music while you are driving if holiday music is causing you to gasp at this point!