Vintage Vibe — Quilt 1

I fin­ished the Scrap Jars last night from Vin­tage Vibe by Amber John­son and.… I LOVE it!     Woo­hoo! thats one quilt down on my way to Quilt Through A Book after see­ing the idea on Blue Ele­phant Stitches blog.

It was­n’t long after I first saw this quilt that I thought it would be fun to turn some of the scrap jars into ‘spe­ci­men’ jars and, since I have a thing for but­ter­flies, figured they would be the per­fect spe­ci­men.     The gor­geous but­ter­flies from Bon­nie Christine’s Winged col­lec­tion were great for fussy cut­ting and they inspired the for the fab­ric pull for the rest of the quilt.

I was­n’t sure what fab­ric to use for the lids but I remembered I had just got a Fresh Air Dots bundle from West­wood Acres.   This par­tic­u­lar print is called blue but they were a great match for the oth­er fab­rics I had selected.

I quilted Scrap Jars using a simple stipple in just under an hour, I love quilts that come togeth­er really quickly.   Some­times you need a quick fix and this quilt sure fits that bill.

If you read my ori­gin­al post about quilt­ing through this book you might remem­ber that Amber had sent me some scraps from her own Scrap Jars quilt as part of a com­pet­i­tion she ran on Ins­tagram.   I’m try­ing to incor­por­ate some of them into each quilt I make from Amber­’s book.    So far so good!   This cute little orange/peach print made it in.

And so did this green stripe.

I could­n’t be hap­pi­er with this little quilt and there’s a baby on the way for my young­est child’s teach.  If she has a girl I think it would make the sweetest gift don’t you?   Or… I might just keep it myself!

I was think­ing of mak­ing Big Baby next but thought I would throw it out there to see if any­one wanted to pick for me?   If you have a sug­ges­tion I’d love to hear them.

Until next time,

Link­ing up this week with Heath­er & Megan over at Quilt Story for Fab­ric Tuesday.