Scrappy Christmas stars was finally finished this morning. Hurray, I've got a Christmas quilt ready for 2018, eleven months early!
Here's a photo of the quilting in progress. I did this quilt-as-you-go style. The center 16 stars and the inner border were set together first. I quilted all but the inner border, and then added the outer borders of stars and red strips. In this photo, I have just added the top and bottom borders. Once joined together, I quilted the rest of it. I'm using my electric Pfaff with the built-in walking foot.
It's a small quilt, only 64 in. x 64 in., shown here on a twin bed.
I quilted the red borders with a leaf stencil I've had for years and never used til now.
Instead of a label, I wrote on the back with permanent red ink. The binding is sewn on by machine. It's in the dryer now, and I hope it will be all crinkly when it comes out.
So that's Christmas red.
Here's ice blue--blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2018. Our color for January is light blue. The pattern is called Mary's Baskets, and comes from this book:
Classic & Heirloom Quilts, by Betsy Chutchian. I'm also making a variation of the quilt on the cover.
Five blocks done so far. I'm changing things around a little, I always do.
I've been collecting, studying, documenting, and drooling over antique quilts for many, many years, but I've never seen a quilt just like this one. Until...
this one! Weirdly, it's in a book I bought on the same day as the Chutchian book.
Pioneer Quilts, by Lori Lee Triplett. It's a nice easy block, and should use up tons of reproduction fabric scraps from the 2.5 in. bin.
I'm happy to have finished a quilt this week, but I realize I just started two more. Is that even legal? At any rate, it makes me happy.
Stay warm and happy this week, if you can.
Cheers,
Sylvia@Treadlestitches
Linking up with Myra at
Busy Hands Quilts, Amanda Jean at
Crazy Mom Quilts, and Angela at
Soscrappy.
