Buttercup in Feed Company fabrics

June 1, 2024

I used my last little bit of an old out-of-print line by Sweetwater Fabrics called Feed Company to make this quilt I gifted to my brother and his family for Christmas. They live in rural Indiana in the cutest yellow farmhouse - it's just perfect! I made my debut Buttercup in modern prints using fat quarters, so it was fun to break out more traditional quilting fabrics for this one. A fun memory I have this of quilt - I hosted a casual Instagram sew-along to motivate myself to get this one pieced while I was 2-3 months pregnant! I never would have finished it otherwise!

I used a jelly roll and a charm pack for the prints, Kona Bone for the background, and Kona Sage for the coordinating solid. I lucked out having a solid in my stash that matched Feed Company perfectly! I love how Kona Bone was just the right shade of off-white to match the softer whites in Feed Company. I usually use a bright white like Kona Snow, but if there's a lot of warm whites in your prints they can look dingy next to a cooler white background.

Quick mention of my favorite quilting notion - the Bloc Loc ruler. I have the 6 1/2" size and it makes trimming half-square triangles bearable.

I'm so tempted to make this recipe!

Quilted by Nicole (KwiltIt!) in one of my all-time favorite pantographs - Clamshell Mushroom.

The plaid binding is my favorite! I love all sorts of binding and use a wide variety of prints and solids to frame my quilts, but I'm really crushing on this plaid.

I absolutely love the look of a bold cotton backing, but when you look at what quilts get used the most in our house, it's always the minky quilts. When this quilt was made, I didn't have the skills yet to tackle minky on a domestic machine. I'm finally there now, with lots of practice on smaller baby quilts - it can be done!

What version would you make? Modern and bold or sweetly traditional? I love that both work for this pattern!

Pattern Details

A pre-cut and yardage friendly pattern that uses beginner-friendly blocks set on point. Pattern includes two variations - a scrappy version (all blocks are different) and uniform version (all blocks are the same).