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My family loves handmade gifts, which means Christmas is a very busy time for me. I should also add that all handmade gifts are appreciated. I still have and proudly display a small bowl my severely disabled great grandnephew made of pinches of clay. To me it is lovely.
Moving on. the quilt above I made for my sister. It is the fastest quilt I’ve ever made. (I’m not fast on doing quilts or anything artistic.) The basis is a panel. I initially chose another panel, but she thought it had too dark a background and preferred this one. The throw quilt is the panel, an inner border, and then 2.5” squares in three rows. I did the squares as short strips because I wanted variety. Each strip was chosen for color theme — shades of purple as below with two prints and one sort of solid.
Or complimentary colors like blue and green, or green and yellow, etc. The patterns and the solids alternate so you never have a strong pattern next to another strong pattern. And then you spend a long time making sure the arrangement of strips works to give a “random” appearance.
I also put in 6 Sawtooth blocks. I don’t have a close up of the block together, but the green fabric is dragonflies. The outside points of the Sawtooth block didn’t turn out as well as I liked. I was doing the 4 up method and the middle V was exactly right but I frequently didn’t have a full 1/4” at the top of the point. Doesn’t matter that much.
Last was an outer border with a butterfly print. When I took it to my long-arm quilter, she said she had just bought a butterfly pattern long arm quilting. She did an overall pattern of that.
I love it as it adds to the flowers and butterfly theme.
And as I usually do, I did some of the front pattern on the back.
Binding was pink. It doesn’t show but it is color on color pink flowers. She really loves it.
I did a couple more quilt Christmas gifts. A pillow for a nephew, and what will be (when finished) a pillow for a niece.
Nephew Andy’s pillow
I will have to stuff out the corners more before I give it to him. I always have a problem with that.
Below is a pillow in progress for a niece who wanted a Christmas scene with a farmhouse.
Dale’s pillow in progress
I will have Santa in his sleigh with reindeers (in buttons) going across the top and I have more detail work to do. I’ll have it finished this week. This pic is from a few days ago. Last night I stitched a tiny cardinal on the fence. I’ll show the finished pillow next week.
So what did you make for Christmas and what quilts are you working on now?
