Hello Sewing Friends,
Add elegance and romance to your sewing projects with Bari J’s newest collection Anthology. The life-like painted florals makes it feel like you can smell the fresh sweet aroma of handpicked flowers. I love the combination of her large scale and small scale design, perfect for home decor and quilting projects. With the addition of such a great variety of stripe prints to mix and match back with her floral designs, it really is endless in the combinations of quilting fun you can come up with. Make sure to visit my blog post where I take you through an afternoon of patchwork with Anthology fabrics using the magic of strip piecing.
Bari J is an absolute legend when it comes to boho, maximalist, floral fabrics. I respect and admire her work over the years producing so many amazing collections for AGF. I love how thoughtfully curated her collections are, carefully considering a quilter and a garment sewer. Her background in interior design and creating home decor truly offers us the most amazing collections to be able to work with!
Page through the Anthology Lookbook below to fall in love with the heavenly botanical world that is Bari J.
The “Maximalist,” free quilt pattern uses strip piecing, template cutting, along with sashing between units to create stunning movement and depth perception. You can literally stare at this quilt for hours admiring its beauty.

Anthology offers so many fun things to sew with! My favorites being three amazingly designed fabric panels.
With the “Kercheif Folklore” panel you have a premade table runner project measuring 18” x WOF. All you have to do is quilt it up and bind it! No cutting required. Cut up the panel to incorporate the pretty floral borders in garments, bags or quilts. I love the floral tile designs, which makes it easy to fussy cut and use in quilt blocks or sew into napkins, potholders, add embellishments to garments or use to create pockets.

*Featuring Kercheif Folklore” panel
The “Plaid Tales” panel was my favorite panel to cut into. Like the “Kercheif Folklore” panel you can quilt it up as is and it would make a fantastic center piece for your table. I enjoyed cutting out the plaid strips and cross stitch designs to use in my strip piecing to create intricate looking blocks . Use the center cross stitch design with birds and florals for a bag or fussy cutting project!
*Featuring “Plaid Tales panel
The “Stripped Narrative” has so many different stripes and zig zag designs to cut from the fabric. What makes it even more amazing is Bari J's thoughtfully placed seam allowance in all her panels to allow you to cut out all these strips to make it easy to quilt with. I loved using this panel to create a fun chevron quilting design using strip piecing!
*Featuring “Stripped Narrative” Panel and Anthology By Bari J
Ever since AGF came out with Linen Blends, it has become my new favorite substrate to sew garments with. “Garden Study Fresh” is such a great print for garment making to show off the larger florals in skirts, dresses, and blouses. Even larger home decor projects like curtains or table clothes and duvet covers! I love the matching tank and short set made in the lookbook with this fabric. Definitely takes lounge wear to a whole new level!
*Featuring “Garden Study Fresh” Linen Blend
“Beloved Memoir Fern” works in a similar way, perfect for garments and home decor. The linen pants made in this lookbook are so adorable in this mommy and me duo!
*Featuring “Beloved Memoir Fern” Blended Linen
Who likes piecing backing pieces together for quilt projects? I have to say if I could skip this step and have no seams in my backing fabric I am all for it! Which is why I love that AGF always has our backs. With AGF’s 108 edition you can choose from a growing list of fabrics that has larger scale prints and measures 108” wide for even your largest quilting projects. “Garden Study Blush” showcases my favorite florals in the collection, but larger, which will make you want to make a whole cloth quilt just with this print.
*Featuring “Garden Study Blush” 108 edition (quilt backing)
There is so much goodness offered in just one collection I don’t want to forget to shine a spotlight on “Memoir Bound” the 2.5 edition offered in this collection. With two different plaids and small scale florals to choose from to frame your projects to add that sophisticated polished look!

*Featuring Memoir Bound” the 2.5 edition
Bari J really knocked it out of the park with the Anthology collection and she had to take it a step further by adding to our list of Designer Essentials with her stripes with scalloped details in a nostalgic rich color palette called Legacy. Legacy was created to mix and match back with Anthology and many more of her previous fabric collections that we all love.
*Featuring Legacy by Bari J
Last but not least, I need to make sure to let you know that Legacy and Anthology are offered as Fabric Wonders. Get the full collection in fat quarters or 10” precuts.

Whether you are new to Bari J’s fabric collections or you have been a Bari J fan for years I would love to know what you all end up making with this collection! Make sure to use the hashtag #AGFAnthology on social media to share with us.
Comment below with your favorite prints, what you want to make or what you like about this collection and make sure to share this post with your sewing friends!
Happy Sewing,
Melissa