My second Ribbon Box quilt is back from the quilter. Friends, I am thrilled with the result! For those of you new to my blog, Ribbon Box is a free pattern from Cloud 9 Fabrics. It was designed to showcase eight fabrics from a single line but of course any pleasing combination of eight fabrics can be used. Before I show you the entire quilt, let me tease you with a few close-ups:

When it came time to pick a quilting motif, I knew immediately there was only one possible choice:  “Embellish” by Quilts Complete. Karlee of SewInspired2Day used it on my first quilt finish of the year, Celebrating Spring, so it was fresh in my memory.

I often choose loopy quilting designs on quilts with lots of straight lines but I had another reason for choosing Embellish. Can you guess what it is? I’ll give you a hint. In the next photo you can see all eight fabrics I used for my ribbons:

Now take another look at the quilting. Do you see what I see? Yes — ribbons!

The simple pieced back — just three fabrics — shows off the quilting design nicely:

Coco seems to approve:

Either that or she just enjoys flopping on whatever I’m working on.

The Dear Husband and I have been so busy working outside — it’s time to put the summer garden to bed — that I haven’t even trimmed the quilt yet but I hope to get that done and move on to the binding and label this week. I think I’m going to bind the quilt in an indigo blender by Maywood to set off the two dark prints — the floral print that was my focus fabric and the vintage indigo vine print:

By the way, when I chose Embellish as the quilt motif, the name I needed to give this quilt popped into my head immediately:  Beribboned.