Lori Holt's first book is built around the Bee in My Bonnet Row Along, a scrappy sampler quilt assembled one playful row at a time. The rows step through 4-patches, butterflies, chevrons, apples, flying geese, cocoa cups, spools, mittens, winter stars, little houses, sewing baskets, and spring tulips, so the quilt grows in friendly, bite-size stages rather than all at once. Ten coordinating projects carry the same cheerful, scrap-friendly look into cushions, tablerunners, and smaller quilts. It is bright, homespun, and approachable, and it is the first book in Lori Holt's catalog.

What the Book Includes

This listing is for the printed pattern book, not a kit or a finished quilt. Fabric, batting, backing, and notions are not included.

Inside are complete instructions for the Bee in My Bonnet Row Along quilt, built from thirteen rows plus a bumble bee block quilt label, along with ten coordinating projects. The 116 full-color pages cover cutting and assembly with photos and diagrams throughout, plus Lori's quilty favorites and techniques. A semi-concealed spiral binding with a covered spine lets the book lie flat at the machine.

The Projects

Beyond the Row Along quilt, the book includes ten coordinating projects with full instructions:

• Quilts: Butterfly Garden, Apple-Licious, Town Square, Vintage Baskets, Tulip Patch, and Calico Hive
• Smaller makes: Cute Cups Cushion, Fall Leaves Quilty, Snowball Fight Tablerunner, and a Sewing Machine Cover and Mat

What You'll Need

The quilt and projects are built with conventional patchwork: rotary-cut squares, rectangles, and triangles joined with straight seams. The scrappy look is a natural fit for fat quarters, precuts, and the prints already in a stash. A rotary cutter, mat, and ruler are the core tools, and full fabric amounts for the quilt and each project are inside the book.

Perfect For

• Quilters who like a row-along format that builds a sampler in manageable stages
• Anyone with a scrap or fat-quarter stash looking for a cheerful, homespun project
• Newer quilters who want a first sampler with clear, encouraging instructions
• Fans of Lori Holt curious where her signature style began

Why You'll Love This Book

A row-along quilt is a forgiving way to build something ambitious. Instead of facing a whole sampler at once, the Bee in My Bonnet Row Along comes together one row at a time, and each row introduces a new little motif, an apple, a mitten, a spool, a house, so there is always a fresh thing to try and a clear sense of progress. It is a format that suits a newer quilter learning as they go and an experienced one who just wants an easygoing scrappy project.

The ten coordinating projects give the book a long life after the quilt is finished. A cushion, a tablerunner, a sewing machine cover, and several smaller quilts all share the same cheerful, scrap-friendly look, and all of it is straightforward patchwork that rewards a well-stocked stash rather than special tools or techniques.

The 116 pages are full color throughout, with clear photos and diagrams, and the semi-concealed spiral binding with a covered spine lets the book lie open flat next to the machine. As Lori Holt's first book, it is where her scrappy, homespun style took shape, and it still reads like a warm invitation to sit down and start sewing.

Product Details

• Brand: It's Sew Emma
• Item #: ISE-902
• Authors: Lori Holt
• Category: Quilt Pattern Book
• Skill Level: Confident Beginner to Intermediate (conventional patchwork piecing in a row-along format that builds a sampler in stages)
• Technique: Conventional Patchwork
• Number of Designs: The Bee in My Bonnet Row Along quilt (thirteen rows) plus 10 coordinating projects
• Finished Sizes: Project sizes vary and are listed inside the book
• Pages: 116, full color
• Format: Printed Pattern Book
• Made in the United States