Showing posts with label Handmade Christmas Challenge 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handmade Christmas Challenge 2014. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Another Christmas Quilt Finished

This is my second finish for the third quarter of the 2014 FAL.
When I picked up this quilt yesterday to work on it, all the straight line quilting had already been completed, So all I had to do was the free motion quilting and add the binding.

I started this quilt in December of 2012.
Last night I finished the quilting and this morning I added the binding.


I have made three Christmas quilts this year so far.
It feels good to use up my Christmas fabric and know
that I have three quilts ready to go for December.


I am linking up to Handmade Christmas.
This link party encourages us to make our Christmas gifts through out the year.

This quilt started out as 2.5 inch strips. I cut a couple from all of my Christmas fabrics then
I sewed one red and one green strip together to make a 4.5 inch wide long strip.
After that I cut a 4.5 inch white strip and placed it on top and sewed down both side making a tube.
I used A Bright Corner's tutorial on how to cute strip tubes and then had lots of fancy HST blocks.

I played around with the layout and took pictures of a few,
but finally ended up with what you see at the top.

Stripe tube piecing is a quick and easy way to make a Christmas quilt.
I just may make another and use the pinwheel layout.  I am really liking that one too.





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