Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Christmas 2014

Here's a quilt I made at the request of Sarah for Sarah.  



We were in the fabric department at Wal-Mart at the end of October looking for some background fabric for a little fall project I was working on.  Sarah liked the Christmas fabric, so I hoped we would find a pattern at home and had purchased enough fabric.  I looked thru back issues of my quilting magazines and books and Sarah picked out a pattern in the Quilter's World Magazine, February 2013 called A Day at the Spa.  And we had enough material!

Before white sashing added


After sashing added. 

 Then I took a month off, got busy with Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Finally added the last two borders at the beginning of our Christmas Break and started on quilting it.  I read an article in the January/February '15 issue of Quiltmaker about getting the most of the decorative stitches on your sewing machine.  This brought to mind the snowflake stitch on my machine and I knew immediately that was how I wanted to quilt it.  I had originally just planned to stitch in the ditch around the big blocks but I added the snowflake stitch in the sashing pieces and it was perfect.  I enlarged the stitch and freehand motion larger snowflakes in the outer border.  I finally finished it today.  So since our Christmas Tree is still up it's still the Christmas season.

Snowflake decorative stiches in the sashing.

Close up of snow flake decorative stitches.


Close Up of free hand snowflakes in outer border

Quilt label


Rug Mug I made to see if I would really like the snowflake decorative stitches.  Sarah thinks the name "Mug Rug" is hilarious.