Riley Blake Designs Project Tour- Sugar and Spice

February 25, 2022

Riley Blake Designs Project Tour- Sugar and Spice

Good Morning, Everyone! It’s Jessica Dayon here and today I’d like to share the Calico Comfort Quilt that I made using Sugar and Spice by Lindsay Wilkes.

I love all of the vintage-y fabric collections that Lindsay Wilkes designs! I get so excited to make quilt with each one! Look at these gorgeous prints!

photo credit: Riley Blake Designs

You can see the Story Board for Sugar and Spice HERE

Every single print in this collection is filled with cuteness but one of my favorites is the main print with the cutest cats ever! Aren't they sweet?!

I paired Sugar & Spice with some RBD basics. For this quilt, I used the following RBD basics: Red Swiss Dot, Hot Pink Swiss Dots, Bee Basics Stitched Flower in Cayenne, Aqua Kisses Reversed, Shabby in Cherry, Blossom in Peony, and Blossom in All the Pink.

The pattern I used to make this quilt is called Calico Comfort Nine Patch and it is found in the Big Book of Civil War Quilts.

This book is fantastic and the quilt patterns in it are wonderful in reproduction prints or in more modern prints like I used for this quilt!

Here is a look at the full quilt-

I added a heart in the middle of one of the nine patches for a special little touch.

I'd like to share the pattern I made up for the little heart as a free download. I used foundation paper piecing to make it. The heart block measures 5" unfinished (4.5" finished). I made the heart in two steps. First, I pieced the two sections of the heart and sewed them together. After that, I put the heart into a square using a diamond in a square technique (put the assembled in heart in the A1 spot). To make it, you can download my patterns- you'll need to download both the HEART PATTERN and the DIAMOND PATTERN (click on the capital letters of each to get the free downloads).