Vintage Lace Quilt - using AGF PURE Solids
I try not to play favorites, but Vintage Lace is one of my all time favorite quilt patterns! I designed it back in late 2018 and released it in the shop early 2019. This pattern was a clear point in my design journey where I felt like I was settling into my own style. Through Vintage Lace, I discovered that I loved symmetry, intricacy and thoughtful construction. Vintage Lace is still such a satisfying design and pattern to create and if you haven't tried it yet, I really think you'll enjoy it. Especially if you love half square triangles! And lots of em. ;)
This particular Vintage Lace quilt was the first one we've made since my Warp and Weft Vintage Lace and Homebody Vintage Lace back in 2020. For loving the design so much, it was quite surprising that we didn't have a new sample in over 2 years! This lead me want to create another version, this time using all AGF PURE Solids.
From top to bottom the colors are:
- Color 1: Gingerbread
- Color 2: Raw Gold
- Color 3: Spiceberry
- Color 4: Flamingo
- Color 5: Bewitched
- Color 6: Blushing
- Color 7: White Linen
- Background: Macchiato
We have kits (found here) to create this exact quilt in the Baby (48" x 48") OR Throw (72" x 72") sizes.
I decided to make the Baby size which is actually the same exact design as the Throw and Bed size. This pattern uses the same number of half square triangles regardless of the size that you are making; the pieces are simply scaled up or down to achieve a smaller or larger design.
One of the things about this pattern that I generally assume is that Color 1 is usually the most saturated color, bringing your focal point to the center of the quilt, then I typically like to have Color 4 as a lighter value to blend nicely into the negative space of the quilt. For this quilt, Color 4 is the bright pink Flamingo fabric, so there's more movement across the design than what the cover has. It's really interesting to see how the design slightly changes based on the values (relative lightness and darkness) of the color placement.
Kara, our Community Manager, did a beautiful job piecing this quilt top! Then we sent it to Ashley of Henhouse Quilting for Long Arm Quilting. We went with a design called Diamond in the Rough by Karlee Porter. Since this is a square quilt with so much symmetry, I typically like to stick with a pantograph that doesn't fee too directional. Meaning the quilting design relatively the same regardless of which direction the quilt is rotated.
For the backing, I used one of my favorite fabrics from Sharon Holland's Willow collection, called Fanfare Jubilant. The binding fabric is from Sharon Holland's Bookish collection, called Between The Lines. I love a good stripe binding but these stripes are unique in the sense that they are printed diagonally. I cut my binding strips from selvedge to selvedge so that meant that the stripes appeared diagonally on my binding as well.
We have the backing and binding listed as an optional add-on for this quilt kit!
We brought this quilt on our recent trip to the Canadian Rockies and got some fun photos in front of Lake Louise. There's nothing quite like taking photos of a quilt in public. It's always quite hilariously awkward, haha!
This trip brought me so much joy. I've never seen such beautiful lakes in all of my life. I'll be writing a blog post about our trip in the coming weeks with more details and photos.
Be sure to grab your copy of the Vintage Lace pattern and check out our new quilt kit for this quilt. Enjoy!
LINKS:
- Vintage Lace Quilt Pattern - PDF
- Vintage Lace Quilt Pattern - Printed
- Quilt Kit - Vintage Lace using AGF Pure Solids (Baby and Throw)
Other Vintage Lace quilts that I've made over the years:
