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We carry two Celestial Blooms Kits. One is just the EPP papers needed to make this quilt. The other is bigger and contains all the EPP papers, Acrylic Templates and two EPP patterns that goes over the EPP blocks used in making this quilt. You can purchase the EPP Papers Kit here and the Complete Kit here.

If you are a quilt shop owner, and would like to kit the Celestial Blooms quilt, please reach out to us and we’ll set you up.

Celestial Blooms is the newest quilt pattern from Brimfield Awakening. It uses Tula Pink HomeMade fabric and includes 8 Brimfield Blooming Star blocks surrounding a Brimfield Block in the center. — This is the Celestial Blooms quilt from Brimfield Awakening. Using Tula Pink’s HomeMade fabric collection, this EPP quilt features 8 Brimfield Blooming Stars blocks surrounding one Brimfield Block in the center. The Brimfield Block (minus the orange peels) features Tula’s Pedal to the Metal sewing machine fabric. The custom quilting is by Danyella Nava @Madesewmodern

Tula Pink HomeMade Fabric Requirements

Pedal to the Metal (Morning) 1/2 yard
Pedal to the Metal (Noon) 1/2 yard
Pedal to the Metal (Night) 1/4 yard
Getting Snippy (Morning) 1/3 yard
Getting Snippy (Noon) 1/3 yard
Getting Snippy (Night) 1/2 yard
Getting Snippy (Brunch) 1/3 yard
Measure Twice (Morning) 1/2 yard
Measure Twice (Noon) 1/4 yard
Measure Twice (Night) 1/2 yard
Tools of the Trade (Morning) 1/3 yard
Tools of the Trade (Noon) 1/4 yard
Tools of the Trade (Night) 1/4 yard
Busy Fingers (Morning) 1/4 yard
Busy Fingers (Night) 1/4 yard
Pins & Needles (Morning) 1/4 yard
Pins & Needles (Noon) 1/4 yard
Pins & Needles (Night) 1/4 yard
Cut Once (Morning) 1/4 yard
Cut Once (Noon) 3/4 yard (1/2 yard for binding)
Cut Once (Night) 1/4 yard
Seed Stitch (Noon) 3 yards (background fabric)
Seed Stitch (Night) 1/4 yard
Measure Twice 108″ wide for backing 1.5 yards

EPP Requirements + Notions

Celestial Blooms Papers, Acrylics + Patterns Kit by Brimfield Awakening
OPTIONAL Brimfield Block solid or window acrylic templates
Sewline Glue Pen & refills
Milliners Needles (we use size 10)
Roxanne Glue Baste It (with the long syringe applicator)
Embroidery Perfection Tape
Wonderfil Specialty Thread 80 weight DecoBob
Sharp scissors, Iron/ Ironing board, pen for tracing fabric, Spray Starch

What This Tutorial will Cover

This tutorial will cover how to assemble the quilt top for the Celestial Blooms Quilt. The Celestial Blooms kit includes 2 EPP patterns – Brimfield Blooming Star and Brimfield Block. Those pattern instructional booklets will take you through the process of doing the EPP for the blocks included for this quilt top. Please refer to those instructions for completing the individual EPP blocks up to the part of popping the papers out from the completed blocks. You do not have to prepare the background squares from those instructions. Below are detailed pictures of each quilt block to help you plan your fussy cutting if you plan on making your quilt exactly as we did. The fabric requirements above are what we used for our fussy cutting purposes. If you “do your own thing” (and we hope you do!) you will find that you may have way more fabric left over, or in some cases, not enough fabric for what you want to do. We strongly encourage you to use acrylic templates to audition different motifs within the fabric and plan ahead what you will need before tracing and cutting.

Shows the Tula Pink HomeMade fabric in a Brimfield Blooming Star quilt Block for the Celestial Blooms quilt by Brimfield Awakening — This is the first Blooming Star block that is in the “12 o’clock” position on the Celestial Blooms quilt. The fabrics used in this block are Pins & Needles (noon), Cut Once (noon), Tools of the Trade (noon) and Pedal to the Metal (noon)

This is a picture of the Brimfield Blooming Star block made with Tula Pink's HomeMade fabric. It is one of the many blocks used in the Celestial Blooms quilt by Brimfield Awakening — This Brimfield Blooming Star block is featured in the top right corner of the Celestial Blooms quilt. The Tula Pink HomeMade fabric used in this block is: Pins & Needles (Night), Tools of the Trade (Night), Cut Once (Night), and Measure Twice (Night)

This is a picture of a Brimfield Blooming Star quilt block created in Tula Pink HomeMade fabric from Free Spirit Fabrics. It is an EPP block. — Against the white background of the blog post, this one is difficult to see, but the creamy “Busy Fingers” fabric used on the outer points of the Brimfield Blooming Star block looks stunning against the navy background fabric (see first picture in this blog.) The Tula Pink HomeMade fabric used in this Blooming Star block (that goes in the 3 o’clock position on the quilt) is: Busy Fingers (Morning), Getting Snippy (Brunch) and Getting Snippy (morning)

Getting Snippy (night) takes over the center portion of this fussy cut Brimfield Blooming Star block using the Tula Pink HomeMade fabric. Four of the ice cream cone complete pieces are from Measure Twice (Noon) and the other ice cream “cone” pieces are in Seed Stitch (Night). The “scoops” of those blocks are in the Measure Twice fabric in the Night color way.

This Brimfield Blooming Star block lives at the 6 o’clock position in the Celestial Blooms quilt and uses only 2 prints from the Tula Pink HomeMade fabric collection. Getting Snippy (noon) and Pins & Needles (Night)

Tools of the Trade (Morning) make up the cute snips portion of Tula Pink’s HomeMade fabric collection in this Brimfield Blooming Star Block. Other fabrics used are: Pedal to the Metal (Morning) and Cut Once (Morning)

This Blooming Star block is in the 9 o’clock position on the quilt. This ended up being one of my favorite blocks from the Celestial Blooms quilt. I love the fussy cutting and the pattern achieved overall by using only one fabric in two color ways. Pedal to the medal (Noon) and Pedal to the Metal (Night). Those loops created within the pinwheel pieces are actually sewing machine cords! Tula Pink HomeMade is a dream to fussy cut 🙂

Measure Twice (Morning) is loads of fun to fussy cut! In this round Brimfield Blooming Star block, it acts like a stripe and draws the eye out in concentric circles from the center of the block. The Pins & Needles (Night) is the perfect resting spot for the eyes.

Initially this was the layout for the final, center, Brimfield Block. I ended up swapping out 4 of the spools on the “small house” pieces for some needle and thread “loops” from a different part of the fabric. See the picture of the final quilted block below. The Tula Pink HomeMade fabrics and color ways used in this block are: Pedal to the Metal (Morning), Getting Snippy (Noon), Measure Twice (Night), Busy Fingers (Night) and Getting Snippy (Night)

Here is the center Brimfield Block in the Celestial Blooms quilt by Brimfield Awakening using Tula Pink's HomeMade fabric — And here is how the center Brimfield Block turned out. You can compare the pink small house pieces to the original idea in the picture above. Don’t you just love the quilting by Danyella Nava @madesewmodern ?

Create 8 Blooming Star and 1 Brimfield Blocks

The papers should be removed and the blocks should be starched and pressed so that the “dog ears” are pressed towards the insides of the EPP. Remember to use the Brimfield Blooming Star and Brimfield Block pattern instructional booklets to walk you through the EPP. Also remember that in this particular quilt, we did not use any orange peels in the Brimfield Block. Set aside.

Piece the Background

Piece (4) 26″ squares together from the background fabric (Seed Stitch in the Noon color way) using a quarter inch seam allowance. Use the diagram below as a cutting guide.

Applique the EPP to the Background

Using the “+” from the seams of the background fabric as a guide and working clockwise around the fabric, apply small dots of Roxanne Glue to the back of one of your Brimfield Blooming Star blocks. The long tip of the Roxanne glue applicator makes this easy to make small precise dots around the outside perimeter of the seam allowance as well as the seam allowance of the inside “petal” cutouts of the block. Place this first block centered in the 12 o’clock position along the top vertical seam of the background fabric. Place it so that the inside pointing tip of the star – the one pointing towards the center of the background fabric – measures 9.25″ from the center. Carefully take this over to your hot iron and heat set the block. Affix 3 more Blooming Stars the same way, aligning so that the inside pointing tips end up 9.25″ away from the center of the quilt and along one of the main background seams. Place the remaining 4 blocks onto the background of the quilt in between the other blocks. We found it useful to press diagonal creases into each of the 4 quadrants to make a guide. Measure 12″(you might have to eyeball this – if any of your other blocks are “off” you might have to hedge this distance closer to 11.75″. Do what looks good!) from the center of the quilt top to an inside pointing tip of the Blooming Star. Glue and heat set the remaining blocks.

This graphic shows how to applique the Brimfield Blooming Star blocks to the background fabric using Tula Pink's HomeMade fabric.

Machine or hand applique the blocks into place. We get asked all the time what to do about the dog ears. We recommend keeping them and folding them under as best you can. Snipping them is what you’ll want to do, but it is best to trim them down only a little and fold them under. This will prevent fraying at the edges of your applique.

Center the Brimfield Block

Once all your Blooming Stars are appliquéd into place, it is time to center your Brimfield Block. Using the “tall house” tips as your guide, align them along the seams from your background fabric. Use the graphic below as a guide.

Celestial Blooms Quilt top layout instructions by Brimfield Awakening using Brimfield Blooming Star and Brimfield Blocks and Tula Pink HomeMade fabric

Just like with the Blooming Star blocks, apply dots of applique glue to the outside edges of your house tips and heat set the Brimfield Block to the background. Applique into place. Once all the blocks have been appliquéd, very carefully cut away the background fabric from underneath the EPP sections. Be careful not to poke your scissors into the front of the EPP.

You may wish to add borders. Our sample does not have borders. Now it is time to quilt and bind! If you wish to create larger background squares, this does not affect the distance from the center with which you measure your applique. It remains the same. You can make the distance away from the center greater if you want, just be sure to add proportionately to the Blooming Stars along the diagonal creases as well.

We used the 108″ Measure Twice fabric for the backing and it couldn’t have been easier.

This is the Celestial Blooms quilt from Brimfield Awakening. It shows the Measure Twice 108" wide backing fabric from Tula Pink's HomeMade fabric collection. The EPP blocks are the Brimfield Blooming Star and Brimfield Blocks

We hope you love making this quilt. Please tag us on Instagram with your makes! We are @brimfieldawakening Also use the hashtags #celestialblooms + #brimfieldawakening