This post is linked to: Quilting is more fun than housework, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, From Bolt to Beauty.
I finished a Christmas Quilt made completely from what I already had on hand. My sister gave me most of her fabric. She loves fabric and had bought quite a bit over the years. But, she decided to de-clutter her house and I was the lucky recipient of some beautiful fabrics.
I decided that since she picked out and bought most of this Christmas fabric, she would most likely like a quilt made from it. Her birthday is near the end of October, so this will be her gift, just in time to display folded on the back of a chair or the end of a bed.
It is a typical windy March day today, so I had to get creative with the pictures of my quilt inside. I pulled out a couple of Christmas items to add to the quilt pictures.
It doesn't show up too well in a picture, but the backing fabric has white snowflakes on white. I don't know why my sister bought 5 yards (+) of this fabric, but it was perfect! I also love a striped binding and this fabric worked perfectly as well.
One of the fabrics.
It was about 80 degrees outside when I took this picture of some of my Christmas Quilts, but ..... oh well.
I tried something new when I pin basted this quilt top. Instead of disrupting our household by pinning on the kitchen table, I tried it out on the table in my sewing room. I just had to take a few things off it and slide it over to the center of the room. It works just as well and is out of the way of every thing. BUT, I remember when I used to baste on the floor and had to move furniture. I'll never do it that way again! I was much younger and more able to crawl around on the floor back then though.
My sister has good taste!!! This jelly roll was the 2 1/2 inch width I needed. I only had to cut the strips into the needed lengths. I only used the green and red fabrics, so I still have some strips left in the different blues. I added a few Christmas fabrics that I bought in the past that went with the jelly roll fabrics.
The layer cake fabrics were perfect for the corner triangles of each square and also for the border pieces.
I have beautiful blue fabrics left from the layer cake fabrics too. I'll definitely be making a blue themed Christmas quilt soon.
The twin sized quilt batting and all the thread that I used in the making of this quilt was bought with a Joann's Gift Card a few months ago. Its always so tempting to go to Walmart or a fabric store to pick up additional fabrics to match what I have, but so far in 2021, I have not given into that temptation.
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Stats:
68 inches wide
82 inches long
Blocks - 13 inches (finished)
Green outer border: 1 1/2 inches (finished)
Outer pieced border: 6 1/2 inches wide (finished)
5 and 1/2 bobbins were used in the machine quilting.
Happy Quilting!