Happy Thursday!!! Today is my stop on the Bonnie Christine Ribbon Tour to introduce her new line of ribbons from Renaissance Ribbons. Now, I may not have shared this before, but I have a serious thing for bees, and Sweet as Honey is one of my favorite collections of all time (I used some in this baby quilt too). So, when I saw Bonnie put out a call on Instagram for people to join her blog hop tour, I didn’t hesitate to volunteer.
Now of course, me being a quilter, I instantly go to a quilt when asked to make a new project — It’s almost like a disease really. And did I plan on making a small quilt? No. I guess even though school is over, I’m still an overachiever at heart. I thought and thought, and looked all over the internet for something to compliment the ribbons, and went with a quilt based of this one by Blue is Bleu (love her too!). It’s about 72″ x 80″, so a nice small throw size, right?
I appliqued the ribbon onto the solid pieces, after they were cut to size, then joined them with the previous pieces, and mitered the corners. Sounds more complicated than it really is. I looked up this video for the miter, then after that it was easy peasy. Except when my cat tried to help. Claws and ribbon don’t mix so well, but it’s a problem easily remedied.
So what can I say about the ribbon? It’s gorgeous for starters. Like keep it in eyesight at all times gorgeous. Though the ribbons are designed for Winged and Sweet as Honey, there’s some fabrics from Hello, Bear that also coordinate really well. If you’d like to purchase some they’re available at Renaisance Ribbons, and Bonnie’s mother’s store A Stitch in Time.
Yesterday, Ashley at Mommy by day Crafter by Night posted about this completely adorable make-up case she made. Tomorrow we can all find out what Bethany at Bee Always Blooming has been up to. And the tour continues, with a new project/blogger every week day until April 8th.
So now that you know all about the ribbon, you’re probably wondering about the name, right? Well, my husband and I have this arrangement – he names all the quilts, and gets first dibs on keeping them. So even if I make a quilt for someone else, it’s not allowed to leave our apartment unless he says so. When I first showed him this quilt top, he thought it looked like a broken TV…and then somehow in his head that became “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Don’t ask me how…his head can be a strange place, but the name is growing on me. In a few days, I’ll be sharing more details about the quilting of VKRS (you know an acronym was in order!). And yes, there is a QuiltCon post (or two) coming – I just got sidetracked by making a quilt. 😀
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Very impressive! And nice use of the ribbons. I can’t believe you made a whole, huge quilt in that time! I finished a quilt top last september and started quilting it a couple of months ago. I got so bored quilting that it’s sitting in the corner of my sewing room waiting to be finished…
It is a beautiful use of the ribbons! Well done and congrats for getting this big quilt finished in time, awesome!
The mitered corners look lovely, as does the quilting detail. 🙂 I clicked on several images and zoomed in to get a good look at the ribbon – a few of them are really intricate and they all look lovely. Congratulations on getting such a large quilt done so quickly!
You sure give your husband a lot of executive powers over your quilts! My husband is more like a consultant for when I’m stumped or need math help, haha. The quilt turned out so fun to look at with the ribbons and different quilting textures!
I love how you incorporated Bonnie’s ribbon into a quilt. I would have done that … never! But it completely works, although I don’t know if I believe the whole sounds-more-complicated-than-it-is thing. Do you think your husband would permit VKRS leave during our next playdate? I would love to check it out firsthand!
This is so neat! Seeing the MBCR train brings back memories of taking the commuter rail into Boston too 🙂 There’s something so lovely about the balance of the perfect edges of the focal point rectangle against it’s 4 different quadrants that I really connect with on this quilt. I hope that makes as much sense in words as it does in my head!!
Sarah, your quilt is lovely! The quilting is beautiful, too! Mitered corners are a lot of work, and you did a great job. Thank you for linking to my shop for Bonnie’s ribbon!
Nice job Sarah! So much work and so fast too.
I was hoping to see a quilt on this ribbon tour! So gorgeous!
I often look longingly at the ribbons in the shop but fail to know what to do with them. What a great idea!
I will be singing the VKRS song all evening now. Thanks, STL Hubby!
Creative bumblebee you are, love the ideas you inspire!
Hi from Haberdashery Fun and the ribbon tour.. love this. Your quilt is amazing and the colors are gorgeous.