I made this from a kit.
I think I ordered it from somewhere. It's signed on the back 'Nov. 92' but I think I had the kit for a few years before making it. I didn't like the pink background for a Christmas quilt. After it was all done, I noticed that the far right row of geese were "off" top one should have been green. This kind of thing really bothers my eye. This quilt used to really bug me.
I'm used to it now and think it's quite charming, but my eye still zero's right in on that top right corner. I'm using it this year as a table topper in my kitchen.
This next quilt is just a panel that I got at Joanne's and made 10/2000. I hand quilted it. The blue colors don't really go with my red sofa, gives too much of a patriotic feel. So I hung it in our bedroom. If you click and enlarge, you may be able to read the words "Do you see what I see?".
That's one of my favorite Christmas songs.
This is a "Little Quilt" design. I made in 1998. Its hand blanket-stitched and hand quilted. It is 14.5 x 18.5 inches.
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Another Little Quilt, I made him in Nov. 2002. I made 7 of them! The rest were gifts. He's made all from scraps. I just love him and since he's not really Christmas but winter he stays out for the rest of the winter.
This is the last Little Quilt design.
This is all scraps. I finished this one 9/2003. It is hand quilted as well. Those little HST finish 1 inch!
I love this quilt too. (I say that a lot, I know.)
These 2 quilts are Thimbleberries designs. I use them for table toppers or to just stick somewhere there isn't a quilt...one is on the back of the sofa and the other is on the back of a wing chair in the living room this year. The 9-patch blocks use black fabric, instead of say a green for traditional Christmas palette. Both quilts are a mix of Christmas fabrics and just regular prints. I don't know why I made 2, but both were made in December 2003.
This is made with all Christmas fabrics. I don't remember the quilt show or designer who was on it. But I got this idea from a show I watched. It was a lesson in color placement and to just let the colors 'go where they may'. You cut out 120 2 inch squares no more than 3 of the same fabric and just 1 if you had enough. Then you mixed them all up in a bag. You reached in pulled squares out and arranged those 10 rows across 12 down. Not re-arranging at all! After they were all laid out you could move 2 or 3 (if say 2 of the same were right next to each other). I made another one with batiks, it actually was the 1st and I liked it so much I made this one. The batik one is gone and I don't think I have a digital picture of it.
This is my Weaver Fever quilt that I made in 2006. I took a class at
my LQS
The Quilting Needle. I was able to use fabrics from my stash and only had to buy yardage for the borders and one of the green prints. The backing is a Christmas toile print. I quilted this on a HQ16 that I rented from another LQS. This was before I got my own. It measures 57 x 46. I keep it out most of the year, since my living room is red and green anyway. It goes.
Oops! This should have been earlier. (I am trying to list these in order they were made, but am failing.)
I made this in April 2005. It was another class at The quilting Needle. The pattern is from another LQS
The Quilt Company the link should go to the pattern Reversible Runner too. It's a quilt as you go pattern. I made several of these, not for Christmas, just to use up fabric. I didn't keep them though. I gave a few away and donated the rest to our church festival's craft booth. It's one of those easy addictive kind of patterns.
This was another class at The Quilting Needle. I took this class and made this quilt in March 2007. It was a technique class for the ribbon border. We really only needed a plain square of fabric for the center, but I had been wanting to make a machine appliqued Oak and Reel block so I made the center one of those blocks and then added to it to get the correct size. I actually made 2 of these as well to use up this LOUD fabric. The back on this one is just muslin. The other one had a pieced backing sort of like a trip around the world using up all the leftovers. That quilt was donated to church festival. This one my son John took just a few weeks ago to his apartment. (He came over and hinted that he needed a quilt for a big blank wall in his living room!) He picked this one.
This last picture is not a quilt but a crewel work piece that I finished around 1990. In 1984 we moved to the house we lived before moving here. My Granpap bought this kit for me as a housewarming gift. I didn't quilt then. I didn't finish it until after we moved here which was in 1989. I was up to my eyeballs in babies and toddlers during those years!!! My dad made the frame for it, which I just realized you can't see. Ha! Sorry!
I'm almost done with my Spring Journey quilt. I will finish it today. I unloaded it to turn it to do the side borders. I hope to have a couple pictures soon. I'd really like those pictures to show it with the binding on it too. But I'm not holding my breath! Just getting it quilted after all these years is joyous!!!
