It's finished before Christmas! I've been working on this quilt for about 3 months, and I did not think I'd have it finished before Christmas. After a suggestion from a reader, I decided to hand quilt snowflakes in the blocks; I thought that was going to take forever! I machine quilted around the trees which was a challenge, but I think it motivated me to try machine quilting for my next project. It's so much faster!
For the back, I used ideas from the blogs I read and found an inexpensive brown sheet that was almost the perfect size. I really like how the scrappy stripes turned out too. I cannot remember whose blog gave me that idea, but I noticed that most people were piecing their quilt backs in some way and I wanted to try it!
I've said this before, but I absolutely love this Figgy Pudding fabric. Now, I'm off to make some Figgy Pudding Christmas placemats with the scraps.
Merry Christmas!
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Beautiful Christmas Quilt.
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It's fabulous! WOW! A great combination of machine and hand quilting!
ReplyDeleteI love the stitching on the back.
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt! I've been wanting to make one but none of my LQS had the fabric. Yours is gorgeous.
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