Blossoms and Buds - Emily Belle Version

 Good morning! 

I've been wanting to share this quilt with you

for a while now; I finished it back in 

September of 2022, I think.

I love this quilt because

A. It's a classic design

B. It's scrappy

C. It uses lots of my favorite fabrics from my stash

and

D. The Baptist Fan quilting gives it a very vintage vibe.

This is the original version:

It's the Blossoms and Buds 

pattern from my book,

Quilt the Rainbow.

It's amazing how different this

version looks compared to the orange version!

In the orange version

the background is scrappy and

in this version the background is all

one fabric.  They look so different!

Which one do you prefer

(and disregard the orange if that's not your thing)?

I've seen several different versions online

and they're all awesome.  There are

so many ways to make this pattern your own

depending on your colors and fabric placement.

The only fabric I bought specifically

for this project was the background fabric -

Emily Belle Liberty from Riley Blake

in the color, Magnolia (a soft, buttery yellow). 

Emily Belle comes in about 45

different colors so you could

pick the one that speaks to you!

And it's such a great stash buster!

Even the binding is scrappy!

Quilt the Rainbow gives instructions

on how to make a scrappy binding

or scrappy quilt back!

There are lots of useful nuggets of 

information in it, besides the 10

versatile quilt patterns.

You can grab the book HERE.

I had this wild backing fabric in my stash

just waiting for the perfect project!

It's called Cameo by Kaffe Fassett.

It incorporated so many of the colors I used

for the quilt front so I thought

it would give this simple quilt just

the "wow factor" it needed.

I like to label my quilts with labels from Everemblem.

I get the 2" cotton, fold-over, sew-in labels.

If you go to their site, you'll have to pick a cotton label 

and customize it from there.  They're so convenient.

Now I don't have an excuse to not label my quilts!

Jen Ostler of Dry Creek Quilting

in Highland, UT quilted it with this

classic Baptist Fan pattern.  There are many different

Baptist Fan pantographs out there but I love this particular

one because it's so traditional.  It's the

Baptist Fan by Three Sisters Fabric

pantograph and I've used it many times!

Before I let you go, I just want to remind you

about the 2023 Quilt the Rainbow Challenge.

If you make any quilt (in any size and colorway)

from the Quilt the Rainbow book and 

post it on Instagram with the hashtag

#quilttherainbowchallenge

you could be entered to win some fabulous

prizes!  I'm giving away prizes quarterly

and you can enter as many times as you'd like!

All the details are in THIS blog post.

Well, I hope I answered any questions

you might have but if not, be sure to drop them in the

comment section below.  I love any interaction with you!

Thank you for stopping by today!