Most years I show you my same three Christmas quilts - one for the King bed, one for the Queen bed, and one for the living room. THIS year I'm showing you some customer quilts.
This is a gorgeous selection of Cardinal fabrics. It's not exactly a Christmas quilt, but the birds always evoke winter.
This one's really cute - just squares of Christmas fabrics stitched into a throw.
There's a ton of work in this one - Round the Twist or Garden Trellis quilt. This version used a lot of half-square triangles.
And a very Canadian hockey quilt.
Since I'm officially on vacation until Jan. 6th, this TFUQ is getting booted off the list. The blocks were cut using JAWS (the Accuquilt die cutter). I dragged this around as a UFO for quite a while, and finished it earlier this year. With the curved Apple Core piecing I need to do some extra-careful perimeter measuring for the binding. And the binding must be bias to maneuver around the curves. For curvy edges I also like to cut the binding just a wee bit narrower - usually I cut 2 1/2", but for this I'll cut 2 1/4". And I'm not foolish enough to try attaching this binding with the longarm.
I have a big to-do list that I really hope to complete. I have a bad habit of writing things down, and feeling pretty virtuous because I wrote them down. Note to self... that doesn't actually get anything DONE. So far all I've crossed off is the quilting for one Quilt of Valour. That still needs the binding, but I'm waiting for some QOV labels to arrive in the mail, since I ran out of them. Bookkeeping is also on the list. I've managed to tick off an hour per day three days in a row (fell down on day four, but getting back on that horse today!).
This is a gorgeous selection of Cardinal fabrics. It's not exactly a Christmas quilt, but the birds always evoke winter.
This one's really cute - just squares of Christmas fabrics stitched into a throw.
There's a ton of work in this one - Round the Twist or Garden Trellis quilt. This version used a lot of half-square triangles.
And a very Canadian hockey quilt.
Since I'm officially on vacation until Jan. 6th, this TFUQ is getting booted off the list. The blocks were cut using JAWS (the Accuquilt die cutter). I dragged this around as a UFO for quite a while, and finished it earlier this year. With the curved Apple Core piecing I need to do some extra-careful perimeter measuring for the binding. And the binding must be bias to maneuver around the curves. For curvy edges I also like to cut the binding just a wee bit narrower - usually I cut 2 1/2", but for this I'll cut 2 1/4". And I'm not foolish enough to try attaching this binding with the longarm.
I have a big to-do list that I really hope to complete. I have a bad habit of writing things down, and feeling pretty virtuous because I wrote them down. Note to self... that doesn't actually get anything DONE. So far all I've crossed off is the quilting for one Quilt of Valour. That still needs the binding, but I'm waiting for some QOV labels to arrive in the mail, since I ran out of them. Bookkeeping is also on the list. I've managed to tick off an hour per day three days in a row (fell down on day four, but getting back on that horse today!).
I especially love the first cardinal quilt!
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