Riley Blake Designs Project Tour- Christmas Adventure

Hi, Everyone!  Today I'm sharing the project I made for the Riley Blake Designs Project Tour for Christmas Adventure by Beverly McCullough.

I love all of Bev's work so I was really excited to work with this fabric!  Christmas Adventure is absolutely gorgeous!  I love all of the prints and their gorgeous details.  Also, this collection has gold sparkle in some of the prints and it is so pretty!

Photo Credit: Riley Blake Designs

You can see the Storyboard for Christmas Adventure- here.

I decided to make the Sun-Kissed quilt from my book- Season to Taste: Quilts to Warm Your Home All Year Long.

Here is the original Sun-Kissed quilt I made for the book-

I absolutely adore two colored quilts and yellow and white ones are at the tippy top of my list.  But, I was excited to make this quilt again into a scrappy version.  I was not disappointed one bit!  Making Sun-Kissed scrappy was so fun and the results were quite different than the original!  

I made this quilt top using the Christmas Adventure fabric collection and I also added in a bunch of Riley Blake Basics.  

I used basics in both the colored portions of the quilt and to make a scrappy background.

For the colored portions of the quilt, the basics I added in were:  Bee Basics C745-Denim and C6405-Denim, Texture C610-SweetMint, Shabby C606-Cherry, Riley Blake Designs Poplin CP100-RileyRed and CP100-Peony, and Bee Backgrounds C9940-Pewter.

For the scrappy background, the basics I used were:  Bee Backgrounds C9710-Pebble, C9940-Pewter, C6381-Gray, Pin Dot CC705-Red, Swiss Dot C670-80 Red, Riley Blake Designs Gold Sparkle Snowflake SC566-Gold, and Kisses Reversed C220-Red.  I also used the white prints in the Christmas Adventure collection as part of the scrappy background. 

For the backing, I used Riley Blake Designs Poplin CP100-RileyRed.  This was the first time I've used Riley Blake Poplin.  It is such a luscious fabric!  It makes a soft, drapey, incredible quilt backing!!  I am so pleased with it and will definitely be using their poplin again for quilt backs.  For the batting, I used The Warm Company Warm 100- my favorite batting.  I pieced and quilted this quilt on my Janome Continental M7.  I used a free motion stipple design for the quilting.  

 

Isn't it neat how fabric choice can change the look of a quilt so much!?  I think that makes for endless possibilities when quilting!  Thank you for following along!

Talk to you soon,


Jessica