Holiday quilt link up

Here is my reponse to Bonnie's invitation to post our holiday quilts.

I made Good Cheer! in 2013 with blocks from the Progressive Swap. 

You can read more about it, and see the bargain-Christmas-fabric backing here

I made two patchwork Christmas pillows long ago and bring them out every year. The pine tree was inspired by a Marti Michell quilt called "Cardinal in the Pines." I no longer have the book and I keep meaning to interlibrary loan a copy so I can get thae pattern to make a bed-sized quilt.  The wreath was in McCall's Quick Quilts. The pattern called for appliqueing circles for the berries. I opted for buttons. 

Today's fabric decision: which vintage tablecloth will I put on the table for Christmas dinner? I checked the inventory and found all of these. 

 Same design, two different fabrics (one is linen, the other sort of rayon-y).

 Poinsettias are ever-popular. (I have lots of poinsettia-print quilt fabrics, too.)

 This one is signed.  I have found other Dearden-designed textiles on eBay but haven't searched deeply enough to find out about him.

 Never-used napkins. Four pine boughs, three poinsettias.















Table runners. The one on the left hasn't been used.  You often see evenly-spaced identical motifs on runners or table cloths. That's because they were designed to be able to be cut apart, hemmed, and sold as napkins.

I have some vintage Christmas dishtowels, too, but if I open the dishtowel box I will not get anything else done today.

See other Christmas quilts in the linkup at Bonnie's Quiltville.