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!