How are you all coming on your Abacus Quilt Along? The best part of any group project is seeing how everyone interprets the pattern in their own colors and fabrics. In fact, I have an alternate colorway to share with you today. I call this colorway “Parfait,” using some of the new 2014 Kona Cotton colors with a white background. Isn’t it cheerful?
Alternate Kona colorway – designed by Christa Watson in EQ7
Thanks to my generous friends at Robert Kaufman, one of you will get to win this lovely bundle! It contains 1 fat quarter of the following colors shown in my sketch above: Heliotrope, Honeysuckle, Grellow, Limelight, Creamsicle, Niagra, Titanium and Nectarine. Plus enough white for the background and binding. Aren’t those fun colors?
Fabric Bundle of New Colors up for Grabs
Here’s another sketch of what the quilt would look like with the colors in a different arrangement. There’s enough fabric that you can play around and put them in any order you like! Isn’t half the fun of any project picking the fabric placement?
Here’s How to Enter
- Click here to check out all 32 new Kona Colors on the Robert Kaufman website.
- Leave a comment below telling me which new color is your favorite!
- Contest is open to everyone worldwide through Noon PST on Tuesday, October 7th.
- You do not have to join the quilt along to win the bundle. 🙂
Kona Cotton solids are definitely one of my favorite fabric to work with. To stock up on some of your favorites, checkout my huge selection of Kona Solid precuts! (And yes, I should have the new color bundles in stock soon!)
Christa Quilts 
Niagra is the color of my true love’s eyes!
Dreamsicle wins my vote. What a fab giveaway!
Astral……it’s like the Stars, so true.
I love the cobblestone, the limestone the bordeaux the……..Actually I love the whole offering!
I really love all of the blues. Especially the Mediterranean, Jamaica, and Ultramarine…so pretty. 🙂
cabbage and creamsicle!
The new Kona Colors are gorgeous, but picking just one is not possible. I love color! Thanks for the Giveaway and the chance to win.
I choose Jamaica because it reminds me of sea glass.
Honeysuckle is my favorite today….but tomorrow it could be Mediterranean or Sangria!
Honeysuckle is my fave!!
Honeysuckle is beautiful, although heliotrope is a close second.
Can’t remember if I answered yet. Honeysuckle, sangria, merlot all look great. Trying to break out of my blues rut.
Jamaica is my favorite and I love all the names for the colors.
Well, if i can’t say I love them all, I will go with Parrot. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
How can I choose? I have at least 5 favorites, but if I must choose only one, I will choose #479, Mediterranean. Thanks for sharing.
GRELLOW is a nice hearty color. Thanks for the chance.
Honeysuckle and Sangria for sure!
Heliotrope (or anything purple!) Thanks for the giveaway.
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Terracotta is lovely.
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MEDITERRANIAN!!
I love them all, but creamsicle is the favorite, and watermelon comes in second.These colors are all fabulous. Thanks Christa!
What a wonderful giveaway! I LOVE solids and these are gorgeous. I think Niagra is especially soothing.
I love all these colors, but watermelon is special. Thanks for the chance to win
Hard to choose just one…love them all, but Heliotrope really caught my eye.
Thank You!
Thanks for such a fantastic give-a-way. My favorite: Honeysuckle! It is so hard to choose since all the colors are so beautiful.
I could use any of the new colors, because I love them all. I like the limestone color because I would like to explore using it for a background color for use with the more muted shades of Kona solids. I think this would let me have a quilt with a modern look that would blend in better than the black or white color ways.
I could find a use for any of the new colors. I like limestone the best because I would like to use this as a possible background fabric for a modern quilt. This would allow me to use some of the more muted solids.
Helitrope certainly is a rich color in this bundle. Send it my way, Kathy in Colo
I pick Malibu as my favorite. All are really luscious.
Titanium is my favorite new color! Would love to win!
Gotta go with my first thought -nectarine
I love all the Kona Colors. In the new category Niagara took my eye. It is a cheerful happy tone but also calming. This color will survive the ages in both modern and vintage quilts. A beautiful choice for both adults and children.
Grellow ~ love the color and love the name!
Parrot is my favorite color. The perfect green.
I love titanium as a neutral/background fabric. But Mediterranean grabs me – it’s the perfect color.
I think I like Cobblestone the best.
The colors are all amazing. My favorites are the blue and purples, but Astral wins the gold medal. However, I can see all kinds of things do to with every color in the collection.
Honeysuckle and Malibu (couldn’t pick just one!). Thanks! notwendy gmail
Heliotrope and Limelight. I LOVE purples and limes together!
cremescicle and titanium are my favorites, if I have to choose one it would be cremescicle
Love the ‘orangey’ colors but I think the Nectarine is my favorite. Would like to see what it looks like with the Bordeaux and Cobblestone. And good luck, Christa, with your newest adventure in fabric design!
As a Baltimore Orioles fan, I’d have to go with the oranges…nectarine and dreamsicle…which also sound delicious.
Heliotrope! I love purple!
I love love Niagara, it’s a beautiful sky blue. We’ve been having Indian summer here. It was about 95 yesterday. I think all the colors are great though. I hope I win.
Malibu spoke to me!
The parrot satisfies my lime urge.
I like Niagra.
Creamsicle drew my attention right away, and when I read the name, I knew it was the one for me. That color will “go” with everything from thirties to modern. Right now I’m working on one quilt in an autumn leaf palatte, and another with cream and mango batiks. Creamsicle is the one!
I like the Niagra.