In case you missed it, Celtic Crossing 2.0 quilt pattern is now available! Did anyone else's jaw hit the floor when they saw Amy Sinibaldi's new fabric collection, Velvet?? I know mine sure did. The first thing that struck me about the collection was her use of color! The pinks, peaches and teals feel light and airy, then the darker green really tones everything down and makes the palette feel earthy and rustic. I absolutely love how they all work together and offer a sort of balance in that sense. Then she threw in the lime green, which really sets the entire collection off! It just really feels perfectly balanced, and I was SO excited to make a quilt with them! . . . . . I really love how Amy creates so much interest with her florals! There's the perfect mix of small, medium and large scale prints and each one has a life of it's own. Overall, each one also seems to have a relationship with the next....if you will. I love the soft flower petals and whimsy stems, I just think this collection is so well done!! I'll be honest, my original plan for this collection was to make a Christmas Joy quilt without the sashing. I was going to inverse the background fabrics so that there would be more of each fabric for each block. Then, I was going to keep them in order so that each of the fabrics would visually relate to their neighbor...if that makes sense! Here's what it would've looked like: . . I then played around with mixup up certain block elements and came up with this: . These quilts would finished at 42