Virtual Cookie Exchange Blog Hop

 

What a fun year it has been!  I've been able to play along with all the blog hops hosted by Carla, Carol, and Joan this year.  It has been so much fun and full of inspiration all year long and this month's hop hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt is no exception!  Everyone in the hop has shown off some fun and fantastic treats so far, both of the fabric and eating variety and we still have one more day to go!

Today I am showing of a fabric treat.  I am calling this one Peppermint Cookies.  

The inspiration for this quilt actually came last year when I went to my Brother's house for Christmas.  He had his house decorated in red and white with a little bit of silver.  No green anywhere. It was pretty cool.  I noticed the only thing missing in his décor was a red and white Christmas quilt to drape over his white couch.  

I went home and looked up red and white quilts and came across a blog post by Barbara Brackman about red and white quilts.  You can see it HERE.  Halfway down the post is her version of this quilt and she even gave sizes.  Her snowballs were 12 inch blocks.  I wanted something smaller so I opened EQ8 and drew up blocks and sashing half that size. I also added some Square in a Square cornerstones and an inner border to finish up the stars on the edges. 

During the rest of December last year and throughout 2022 I snatched up some red and white prints. Some Christmassy and some just red and white.  I  ended up using 24 different prints for the snowball blocks.  The star points are more of a solid red without any white.  I contemplated using scrappy prints for these, but decided to go with one darker print to help bring everything together.

I even found the perfect fabric for the back.  Some red and silver ornaments.

I had the intention to make some white chocolate chip peppermint cookies to show off with this quilt, but alas, I feel more at home in the sewing room lately than in the kitchen, so that part didn't make for this hop,  But I can give you the base recipe for this Peppermint Cookie Quilt!

Yardage Needed:

Red: About Three Yards.  Can be a total of Scraps or one print for everything.
White:  About 2 3/4 yards.

Ingredients for a quilt that measures approximately 58 x 74 inches:

Use your favorite method to make each specific block,
or click for either a free Paper Piecing PDF or a Template PDF option for some of them. 

	48 Snowball Blocks:  6.5 inch unfinished Paper Piece PDF,   Template PDF
	110 Rectangle Star Sashing:  6.5 x 2.5 inch unfinished Paper Piece PDF,   Template PDF
	28 White Rectangles:  6.5 x 2.5 inch unfinished
	32 Triangle in a square blocks:  2.5 inch unfinished Paper Piece PDF
	31 Square in a Square blocks:  2.5 unfinished Paper Piece PDF
	32 Red Squares: 2.5 inch unfinished
	4 White Squares: 2.5 unfinished
	2 Border Strips: 2.5 inch x 70.5 unfinished 2 Border Strips: 2.5 inch x 58.5 unfinished.

Instructions:

1. Layout the snowballs in a grid of 6 across and 8 down
2. Fill in with rectangle star sashing.
3. Add cornerstones from top to bottom, starting with a solid red squares and alternating with a Square in a Square block.  
4. Use the White Rectangles, White Squares, and Triangles in a Square to make first inner border.  The Triangles in a Square blocks make the final outer star points. 
5. Add the white outer borders:  Sew on the side borders and then the top.
6. Quilt, Bind, Snuggle under and eat some real homemade peppermint cookies.

Be sure to check out the other blogs today. 

You are sure to see some great recipes and fun decorating ideas!

December 5

Creatin' in the Sticks
DesertSky Quilting
Karrin’s Crazy World
Days Filled With Joy
Just Because Quilts
That Fabric Feeling
For The Love Of Geese
Words & Stitches
 
December 6

MooseStashQuilting
Just Sew Quilter
Ms P Designs USA
Beaquilter
Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
Stitchin At Home
 

December 7 - TODAY

Inflorescence
Crazy'boutquilts
Patchouli Moon Studio
Texas Quilt Gal
Pinker n' Punkin Quilting & Stitching
Needled Mom
Quilted Delights (Me)
 
December 8

Just Let Me Quilt
Quiltscapes
Songbird Designs
Patchwork Breeze
Quilt Schmilt
Homespun Hannah's Blog
Happy Cottage Quilter

Happy Sewing!

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