Hello and welcome to my stop on the High Tea Collection Blog Tour. I’m so happy to be joining so many wonderful bloggers sewing along with the High Tea Party. What a fun theme for a blog tour and just perfect for Jera Brandvig’s debut collection for Lecien.
Jera’s High Tea fabric is a gorgeous collection reminiscent of fine bone china and all things good and proper. I’m such a creature of habit and normally choose the same basic 5 or six colours when I buy fabric so its been really lovely and creatively fun to work with this range.
My plan was to make a small table topper for the High Tea Party but when the fabric arrived the idea evolved a little bit and I’ve ended up with a small quilt that could be used as a table topper or a small baby quilt. It finishes at 38″ x 38″.
It was a pretty simple little quilt to make and I’m sure you could all work it out yourself but just in case I’ve popped a very quick tutorial below you can follow along with if you like. The tutorial will be available right here on my website so you can access it anytime.
Right… back to the quilt! I quilted this one myself in a simple meandering design. There’s a few jigs when there should have been a jag but I don’t think my rusty skills did too badly. It certainly was nice to sit and do a little bit of free motion rather than straight line sewing.
I hope this little quilt gets some inspiration happening for you. High Tea is such a sweet little collection and it’s in stores now so you can grab yourself a little (or a lot!) on your next trip to the quilt shop.
Happy quilting,
Love this and your ‘style’ of quilting pretty things.
Thanking you.
R.
Thanks Regina that’s really lovely and I appreciate it.
Just lovely! I look forward to your blog posts. It makes my day.
Thanks for all your beautiful ideas.
Thanks KC — you sure know how to make a girls day 🙂
Lovely quilt and your quilting looks great!! Such a pretty fabric line!
Thanks Angela, that means a lot to me.
It’s so soft and subtle — a perfect baby quilt!
So, so pretty. Thank you for the lovely pics and for sharing your tutorial. Smiles!
Marion in the UK
I really love the pattern and the fabric you chose for this quilt. I am new to quilting. I looks like there are about 7 different fabrics from the High Tea fabric line. I really would like to make this quilt as it is pictured here, but I am lost when it comes to the fabric requirements for this darling quilt. Is it 7 FQs? If so, which color fabric is the BACKGROUND fabric? I would very much appreciate knowing exactly how much fabric to buy. Please advise. Thank you.
Hi Phyllis, The quilt is actually made with a charm pack and six fat quarters of print fabric. You will also need 1 fat quarter of white for the background.
Hi Peta, Thank you so much for your answer. Your quilt pattern goes perfectly with this lovely fabric. I am confident that I can make this darling quilt with your tutorial and the High Tea fabrics.
That’s great Phyllis, I’d love to see a picture of it when it’s done. XO