Double Cross Christmas

A few weeks ago I posted the first month of the AccuQuilt block of the month program. I had forgotton to add an alternative layout option.

This is one option if you don't want to make the sampler quilt, but want to use the first block - the Double Cross Block, in a single quilt.

Here is the original block:

Here is a quilt using the Double Cross Block, with solid cornerstones and an alternative faux irish chain block:

I changed the colorway to red, green and gold for christmas. I'm not finished with this quilt, and I expect with my other projects it won't be done in time for christmas. At least cutting it out was a breeze!

Cheers,

Dionne

Carrie's Chrismas Forest.

Carrie has a little Christmas forest growing.

I made this little tree to add to the cheer.

I love how the Santa sits among all the trees, some very modern and others are rather traditional. Most are applique but some are pieced.

Aren't they lovely!

Cheers,

Dionne

There once was a quilter named Jane...

There once was a quilter named Jane.
Who hosted a quilting bee from the US to Spain,

and then back again.

It was trees that she desired, in colors quite wild.

Not one of her blocks could be called mild.

When her quilt left my door, the blocks counted four,

in hopes to gather more.

Cheers,

Dionne

PS - Today is the last day to leave a comment for my 'Plume' giveaway. Leave your comment on the post HERE.

We're growing a little fabric forest

We are growing a little forest for FlossyBlossy.

These sweet little blocks measure just 6 1/2" and aren't they lovely. Too bad my photo is so dark.

Three blocks are applique and three are pieced.

Cheers,

Dionne

You've Seen these in process...

Did you Freda's Hive Today?
And if not, better get over there quick because today is the last day! Well, at least to potentially win a prize!

...well, here they are finished. I had meant to post these as I finished them. But, well, I put up so many pictures as I was making them that it hardly seemed worthwile.


Not only that, but it's winter in Seattle and there has not been even an inch of blue sky in eons! So today, I thought I would take advantage of a dry sky (if not actually blue).



The first, of course you've seen before is my little guys christmas quilt, the backing is just one big piece of fabric that he picked out months ago "If you ever make me a christmas quilt mommy will you put this on the back?" What could I do!



This second is for my middle daughter. Also featured here on my blog as I put the backing on it and did the quilting. I know she will love the back, because it has many fabrics with gold detail and she LOVES any and all bright and shiny things, including fabrics. For the binding, I found a technique on the internet that I thought I would try, but I wasn't really pleased with the result. Still, probably only I will notice.

Second Christmas Quilt (Almost) Done!!

I actually got this all sandwiched and pinned before I left, but I never got around to posting the pictures.

Here is a close up, there are some very cute christmas kids on the print. This is a bit risky because my middle child is right at that stage... almost a tween, still a kid. Will she like it? Will it be too young for her?

This quilt is for my middle daughter, I'll quilt it and finish the binding when I get back.

(Almost) Done with Christmas Quilt One!

Well Here it is, everything done but the binding! Yahoo. I finally finished up the quilting.

Here is the back:

This fabric was picked out by my little guy. I was looking through fabrics for a backing on another quilt at my LQS several months ago and we came across this fabric. He told me that if I ever made a Christmas quilt for him he wanted that fabric as the backing, well, it went on sale and perfect timing too!

UFOM #4 - Almost, Almost Done Christmas Wallhanging

This one is nearly done. And I remember very clearly why I didn't finish it. I couldn't decide what to put in the green panel. If you look closely, I've used scrap from my very first quilt (UFOM #1) for two of the trees.

That and I didn't have enough buttons to finish the trees. Now that is a silly reason, I know, especially because you can pick up buttons so easily!

I remember wanting not only the skin color of the angels to be varied, but the shading on their wings. So I took the doily, and tea-stained them in different shades. Then I was disappointed because I thought the stained wings didn't show up quite as well from the background. It doesn't bother me so much now. Maybe that was the real reason why I didn't finish it.

Now, what to put in that green panel. Mmmmmmm....