I'm about 3/4 through with quilting the bullseye stars It is not going as well as I'd like. I didn't press the top flat enough. I will wash and dry it on hot in hopes that it will shrink up enough to make the bubbly quilting less obvious.
Rather than continue to frustrate myself I looked at my quilting to-do list. At the top: AAUW Christmas Quilt. (I made the list at random, not in alphabetical order, but AAUW came first.) I make two raffle quilts to benefit my AAUW branch fundraising. One is at the spring convention (Good Fortune this year) and the other is at the holiday/Christmas party. Usually I begin thinking about the Christmas quilt in July. Or August. Sometimes inspiration comes slowly. But this year it came very early.
I saved a photo of a Christmas quilt -- Pinterest, probably -- I don't remember the source. I figured out that the star blocks were 12", 8", and 4". I may use the layout in the photo, or I may use the layout for the Churn Dash quilt I coordinated for the ALA Biblioquilters* or I may come up with something else.
Meanwhile, I'm having fun pulling fabrics from the Christmas stash as well as the red and the green shelves.
* This is the Churn Dash quilt. Units are 9", 6", 3".
The 4" star blocks for the Christmas quilt are a lot easier to make than the 3" churn dashes.
I'm linking up with Susan's Midweek Makers
love the christmas quilt nann...another beauty!
ReplyDeleteYou're fortunate to have an idea early. Good luck finishing it before the hot weather arrives.
ReplyDeletewow love those stars with that zippy red!!
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