Introducing Cuddlekiss: A Valentine's Day Quilt Pattern
In the past, I wasn't much for themed quilts. Some of my quilts were themed, but they still got tossed in the general pile in the family room and people just used whatever was closest when they wanted a quilt (or dug through the pile for a flannel-backed quilt because those are the most popular, but no one really cared what the front looked like). But recently, something changed. I made a point to round up all the Christmas quilts and put them in the family room (I even took some non-Christmas ones out to encourage the use of the Christmas quilts) and it made me happy to be sitting under a Christmas-themed quilt with the tree lights twinkling merrily beside me. So I dug out my Stranger Things quilt and made sure I used it as we watched each new episode. And you know what? I think I'm a convert!
Meet Cuddlekiss, my brand-new Valentine's Day quilt pattern! What I love about this pattern is that if you know it's Xs and Os, it's obviously Xs and Os. But if you don't know that, maybe it's just a fun shape repeating across the quilt - it could be anything! Another great thing is that the parts of the Xs and Os are big enough to show off a great novelty print. The red of the larger version has little hearts in it, and the scrappy Xs and Os of the baby quilt are large-scale cat prints!
Both of these quilts were quilted by me. The row quilt had each shape outlined and meandered in a matching thread, then I did a geometric pattern in the back background. The baby quilt is wavy lines that I made with my walking foot. I traced the first line with a hera marker and a wavy line template, then "followed" this line with the spacer on my walking foot so they are all roughly the same.
Unintentionally, the name of the game for the binding of the quilts is matching! The row quilt's back is a fantastic large-scale Valentine's Day print with a couple of random fat quarters cut into strips on both sides of it to bring the width up slightly. The binding matches the background of the front of the quilt. The baby quilt is bound in the same fabric as the back of the quilt.
Cuddlekiss is cut out using template shapes, but all of the piecing is done traditionally. I'm not normally a template sewist, so if I can find a way to make them fun for me, I think that they will be fun for you as well! The pattern includes instructions for sewing the quilts in rows or in a checkerboard and tells you how to make it scrappy instead of using yardage if that is more up your alley.
Cuddlekiss is available now in both my BluePip Designs pattern shop and my Etsy shop. I'm running the following sales:
- Etsy: 10% off the entire pattern shop through 2/14/26, no coupon code needed
- BluePip Pattern Shop: $2 off Cuddlekiss AND Floppy through 2/14/26, no coupon code needed
- BluePip Pattern Shop: Use code CUDDLE for 15% off your entire order, on top of the $2 discount on Cuddlekiss and Floppy
- BluePip Pattern Shop: Use code CUDDLE2 to get 40% off any pattern when you buy Cuddlekiss or Floppy
- BluePip Pattern Shop: Use code FLOPPYKISS to get 50% off Cuddlekiss or Floppy or both through 2/3/26 - the best possible deal!
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