KONA Color of the Year Inspirations

At the Atlanta Sewing and Quilting Expo, there was a fun exhibition of quilts inspired by the KONA color of the year from 2024…. JULEP!!

This challenge was done in the Bloomington Normal Modern Quilt Guild

I loved this color and equally enjoyed the quilts that it inspired…..

I’m sorry…. I don’t know who made this

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No name on this one either

In this quilt, I love the different styles of quilting that she used….from Big Sttich hand quilting to tiny machine quilted lines!

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“Sneaky Stripes” by Kathy Cook

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“Looking for Direction” by Nancy Simms

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“Sherbet Julep” by Pat Alberts

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“Nanaboard” by Mary Jean Blythe

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“Spinning to the Light” by Vicky Morrow

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“Illusion” by Gary Riss

This design is PIECED, and not very big. I imagine it was quite the challenge!!

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“Santa Fe Pines” by Pam Tannura

WOW…. I think these quilters did the color PROUD!!

We will finish out these Expo quilts next week, and then it will be time for AQS – PADUCAH!!

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Kona Color of the Year – 2025

I love seeing the “colors of the year”!

Yesterday we looked at the Pantone Color of the Year for 2025…..

Now let’s check out the Kona Color of the Year…..

Isn’t that a rich and wonderful color!!

Here is one of the palette suggestions that Kona makes….

I spent a few minutes looking thru my “Color Cube”….

…and found several other possible palettes…

And it might even pair nicely with the Pantone color….

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Okay…..now I have LOTS of inspirations!!

How about you?

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Kona Color of Year – 2024

Last week, we talked about the Pantone color of the year for 2024…..

While it is interesting, I am not super excited by it.

So, today I turned to the Kona Color of the Year……

This one seems more exciting to me!!

I need to find a few minutes and pull some fabrics and see what I can do with either of these colors.

HMMMM….I wonder if you could use them BOTH together??

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Another “Color of the Year”

When I posted about the Pantone Color of the Year, several people commented that there was also a “KONA Color of the Year” so I knew that I had to check it out.

KONA is a line from Robert Kaufman Fabrics that features only solids.

For 2022, they announced that the Color of the Year was COSMOS!!!!

Like the Pantone color of the year, I can get into this one!!!

As I did more searching about this color, I came across the Missouri Quilt Company page that features this color, and they provided several FREE patterns for quilts featuring Cosmos….