Vintage Vibe quilt book + Scrap Jars quilt

I'm excited to share this fun new quilting book today, Vintage Vibe: Traditional Quilts, Fresh Fabrics. Honestly, it's one of my favorite recent pattern books. For me the mark of a great book of patterns (and one worth spending the money on) is a book that has multiple good patterns - especially when they're something new and different. Vintage Vibe is one of those books! Plus, it's just pretty to look at.

Vintage Vibe is by Amber Johnson (her blog is A Little Bit Biased.) She has been designing patterns for a while now and I love her clean, fresh style. This book is a collection of brand new patterns.

Here are a few of her patterns from the book. All of them have classic quilt inspiration, but with a fresh new twist. This one is called Playing Favorites. (Book photos are shot by Brent Kane, courtesy of Martingale.)

I love the simplicity of this design called, Vintage Vibe. The color choices could give it a variety of looks. And such a great one for showing off amazing quilting.

A couple more cute designs from the book: Big Baby and Sugar. I love that they are so classic and pretty, but also so do-able. I want to make so many of them!

Check out these pretty dresden plate blocks in a quilt called Pretty Petals. If you've always wanted to learn how to make dresden blocks, Amber has great instructions.

This is a mini quilt called Scrap Jars and as soon as I saw it, I wanted to make one. It's so perfect for showing off favorite prints.

Here's my version in progress. All of the 'jar's are made from precious scraps to represent things I personally love: my kids, my neighborhood, the beehive is for my state - Utah, the Beehive State - England, Paris, sewing, a few Cath Kidston and Liberty prints I bought on our trip this summer, etc.

I was having a hard time deciding on what sashing to use since so many of my fabrics have a light background and I needed some contrast. At first I was trying to go neutral with a linen or gray, but the whole thing looked washed out.

Then Cheryl suggested a coral on Instagram. Genius! I didn't have just the right coral, so I went with a light red. I love how it looks! It's still a work-in-progress, so I'll share the finished result when it gets done. Sometime after the holidays...