Ready for Christmas In July!
A finished Christmas quilt! I've been spending a lot of time this year finishing up my quilt-along quilts from 2016 and when I came across this stack of Christmas tree blocks I decided they needed to get done as well! I made these in October 2015 from the book Winter Wonderland by Sherri Falls . I had also already made the car, an adaptation of a block from the Snapshots quilt-along that Greg Jones of Grey Dogwood Studio came up with. With all the harder pieces done, it seemed silly to let it sit any longer so I got to work. This quilt is a scrap-buster; all of the trees and churn dashes are various fabrics from my stash. Speaking of churn-dashes, these are an improvisation: the pattern called for four-patches but I couldn't find a fabric I liked in my stash to contrast with the red. Luckily 2015 me way over-bought the background fabric so I was able to adapt the pattern without running out of fabric. The tree trunks all match and ar...