CHRISTMAS PLAIDISH QUILT

My Christmas Plaidish quilt has been a project for 2021.

I just finished it... in time for Christmas!

The Plaidish pattern is by Erica Jackman

at Kitchen Table Quilting.

Sew it began after I finished my first Plaidish

and I selected red, green and white holiday prints.

Because Plaidish has scraps sorted into 3 volumes of color

that read as Low, Medium and Dark 

I sorted lots of holiday prints that read...

Red as Dark Volume

Green as Medium Volume

White as Low Volume

This is the flimsy top 

567 pieces and 63 blocks.

Clan Gordon has a Tartan Tree...

sew the Plaid quilt is perfectly to

display beside it.

A close up makes my Christmas sew Merry!

My good friend Kim Hensley, has an Innova long arm machine.

She needed some quilts for practicing and learning the techniques.

Look at the Holly Swirls, an E2E she used on this one.

The Plaid peeking thru on the right bottom corner

is the backing and binding.

But my favorite picture of all...

is the quilt on my hubby in his recliner.

This photo op has become a tradition and he loves it.

Anytime I finish a quilt...SNAP!

we have been taking this finish picture for many years!

I hope your Christmas is Merry and Bright!

Like my beautiful quilt and handsome hubby!

CHEROKEE MYSTERY FINISH!

Columbus Modern Quilt Guilds

Mystery Quilt Challenge for 2019!

Every other month we received a clue or instructions on how to

finish a unit of the mystery quilt.

You can read about that here!

Once I had the top completed my good friend Betty

quilted it for me on her Statler Gamill Machine.

My hubby thought this looked like an Indian Blanket design.

Betty used a Fire Flame for the E2E quilting.

I have 2 great-great grandmothers who were Cherokee Indians.

It was a Mystery Quilt design.

Therefore...

Cherokee Mystery

 I finally got outside to get a few pics.

 

It was a bit windy...

perhaps some Cherokee winds blowing thru!

The mystery quilt designer is Meadow Mist Designs.

This pattern name is Mosaic Mystery Quilt.

HO HO HO-LD ON!

Yes, its' been a SWELL time making my

Vintage Santa Quilt top. 

I am always late to the sewing party, as

this design came out a couple years ago.

I don't care....it's timeless.

As always, I began with cutting and labeling.

I decided to use a dark charcoal gray fabric

for the background.

Sewing the HO HO HO letters was fun and quick.

Labels help!

My H Letters all in a Row!

Here you can see the dark charcoal gray background.

I love all these vintage inspired prints.

The O letters were soon finished.

Then the HO blocks came together nicely!

It didn't take long for the top to be pieced.

I love an easy and quick quilt top!

I put my least favorite fabrics (hard choice) in the

bottom left corner.. The huge Santa will be appliqued over them

and they get cut away.

 The HO-LD ON comes into play now. 

The Santa needs to be appliqued onto the top.

I think the glue used for Lauren Heiney collages would work well! 

The fabric behind the Santa will need to but trimmed out.

The Santa Panel is HUGE! 60 x 52 but Santa gets trimmed down.

You can place him on the top however you like.

Kim Hensley and I will get together and do that part next year,

Our plates are pretty full right now. 

She wants to investigate long arm quilting ideas for this quilt. 

I am OK with that!  

I WAS IN STITCHES!

Why did I not know...there was a fabulous quilt shop in Cincinatti OH

Called STITCHES?

When my friend Kathy Guenter took me there, 

my first thought was..."man this is small"

Nope...don't let that storefront fool ya!

It was narrow but deep...lots of rooms all the way back.

We found lots of notions.

Modern patterns/designers

3 Shelves of Charley Harper fabrics

Solids on Sale!

A great sale area

with these 1/2 yd cuts at $6

And I found a remnant of a Charley Harper

Racoon Christmas print

Yes...I was in STITCHES and will go back!

CHARLEY HARPER DREAMS

Seems like a long time ago...

I found a love of Charley Harper fabrics.

I kept collecting them, and made a few smaller projects.

All became part of my guest bedroom.

Then I collected more...and found a pattern I thought

could work for a king size quilt, for the queen size bed.

I cut a lot of blocks and worked on them at intervals.

I didn't like the pattern churn dash corners...

so I just made regular Churn Dash blocks.

Fussy cut centers of many Charley Harper fabrics.

I made 36, 16" Churn Dash blocks

White GRUNGE framed all of them and I selected

a color from the fussy cut pieces for accents.

The background was a Gray with Black Polkadot.

Added a 4" drop of the background fabric

 so it would fit the Queen bed, like a comforter.

It finished at 85 x 89"

I selected Dream Cotton batting

and off she went to my friend Patty Estadt for quilting.

Here you can see the backing...a print called Stitched

and it was perfect for this backing.

I used the background fabric for the binding.

As you can see here...Patty did a beautiful E2E  free-hand 

long arm quilting desgin....not a pantograph!

I made a couple pillow cases out of the backing fabric

and here she is in all her glory!

I still have a ton of Charley Harper fabrics.

Oh gee....what will I make next?

TESTING!!! TESTING!!!

Recently I was interviewed to become a pattern tester for 

The Frannie B Quilt Company.

Two rounds of survey questions and I was in! 

Corinne Wells is the owner and 

has a staff of excellent artists and designers. 

Riley Blake is one of her fabric sponsors. 

Corrine also has released her own fabric designs.

Like this Rocky Mountain Wild

for Riley Blake

Their mission is to take vintage patterns and fabrics 

and give them a Modern feel. 

Just perfect for me!

First up…I did a read only test!

Corrine said I provided excellent feedback

on the written pattern! 

Next test, I made a quilted Christmas Stocking.

Corinne sent me these Riley Blake prints to use. 

I will be mailing this back for a Charity effort

to provide Foster kids a Christmas Stocking. 

I am currently testing on a new pattern 

for Frannie B Quilt Company

 ‘Stargazers’ 

Sizes from crib to full size and precut friendly. 

Pattern drops November .23), 2021 

My fabrics are Zen Chic, Quotation 

with a lot of scrappy Low Volume for the background. 

A stack of stars!

If you like making Flying Geese…

This pattern is for you. 

And here is my stargazers top!