Is it Christmas yet? 🎄
It's getting pretty close! The last four months of the year always go so fast. But this year I'm ready! I already have a new Christmas quilt for the season and now I have a nice mini quilt to go with it.
This month Island Batik Ambassadors were challenged to create a Marvelous Mini Quilt. Mini quilts are marvelous for many reasons:
They make great decorations, they can be used to test hard blocks, they are small enough to practice different Quilting motifs, and they help use up the last bit of scraps from another project.
For my mini quilt I decided to use up the left over Winter Wonders scraps from my New York Beauty project from June. You can find this fabric line in stores now.
These Christmasy fabrics by Kathy Engle are right up my alley and I had just enough to make a small lonestar.
I still had a little more fabric left over so I decided to add some triangles and borders as well. The size of each shape was determined by how much fabric I had left. This really was a design as you go project.
For the quilting I used some red, green, and yellow thread from Aurifil and used a Schmetz Microtex Chrome needle. They play together perfectly.
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