Christmas Postage Stamp Finished

Christmas Postage Stamp Quilt - 79" square

This quilt is all done! I started piecing the top back in the first week of December. As I unpacked our Christmas decorations I thought about how nice it would be to have a Christmas Quilt. I also won some Christmas fabrics at the Leduc guild meeting. It was nice to sew with Christmas print over the holidays.

My oldest son helped with holding this quilt today for the photo. 

It is a very scrappy quilt. I used 2" squares to make blocks that are nine - nine patches. Some of the patches were already cut and in my water colour fabrics. I looked for anything that was kind of Christmas like. I used some Green and Red fabrics that might not have been Christmas but fit in just right. I had Nutcracker, Penguins, Labs with Christmas candy, Snowflakes, lights, candy, birds and so many Christmas prints. 

I have quilted it with a ice blue thread and did snow drifts and spirals of snow all over the quilt. 

I have added this post to Crazy Mom Quilts, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, and  Let's Bee Social at Sew Fresh Quilts.

It is still so wet and muddy at our place, I have to think of dry places to take my photos. We have a hint of blue sky today. I wish it would dry up a bit and for spring to show up. We don't have much green yet. 

The binding is a peppermint candy cane strip print. I got the backing, with winter foxes, on sale in January when the Christmas prints were on sale. I was able to put a few squares of foxes on the front side before the top was done. 

Also on my mind today is getting ready for a Spring quilt show. The Edmonton and District quilter's guild is having a quilt show June 3 and 4th 2017. This weekend they need to have our entries and we are to have a photo of our each quilt with the entry.  

Christmas Postage Stamp Quilt

I rushed to get the quilt top done today, I still had the last 4 boarders to finish. It was bright and sunny outside after a few days of fog, so good day to take photos outside. As I write this it is clouding over already. 

I started this quilt in early December when I won a cute fat quarter with Penguins on it. Also I was quilting a cute Christmas quilt for a customer. I realized I do not have a good Christmas quilt and I need one. 

Edit: I was asked how big this quilt was and how big are my postage stamps. The quilt top measure 76" square and I used all 2" square to make the quilt. I then stayed with 2" cut sizes for the white sashing and boarders too. 

I had a little breeze to to fluff out my quilt in the wind. This fence is our outside riding ring. 

I am glad I got to take photos out in the snow today.

I have added this post to Crazy Mom Quilt's Finish up Friday

I have also added this post to Confessions of a fabric addict and Can I get Whoop Whoop

Can you spot the many Penguins I used? Also there is nutcrackers, snowmen, a chickadee, mittens, chocolates and Christmas lights. I am not able to quilt this right away, some customers are wanting their quilts first. I hope to have the quilt done in time to enter in a few quilt shows with the local quilt guilds. Then it will be ready for Christmas later this year. 

Quilt Goals for 2017

Fancy Forest, I have about half the blocks done but I would love to finish it this year. 

 I have a large list of UFO's, about 56 projects. I have been keeping track of them for a few years now and review them every couple of months. Sometimes I am adding in new project and sometimes I get to mark a project as done. The finished projects get moved to a list of completed projects for the year. Then I know when I finished it too. 

Grand Illusion Mystery quilt, top is now done and waiting to be quilted. Not sure I have a photo of the finished top. 

Needs Quilting

1. Bad to the Bone – quilting and binding
2. Grand Illusions – Bonnie Hunter mystery from 2014 – Need to piece a backing and machine quilt ( started Nov 2014, top complete April 2015)
3. Christmas Tree Shirt – mom did the piecing and I need to Quilt
4. I am sure I have a charity quilt in a bin that needs quilting

Christmas Postage Stamp Quilt, I hope to have this quilt completed in time for a Quilt show this year. 

My Goal to finish this year, in light of there being 2 local quilt shows. I need to enter some finished work. One quilt show is in June, Edmonton Guild then in October is the Leduc Quilt show. 

What goals I have to finish for 2017

1.      Truffet for me but I should start it
2.      Christmas tree skirt needs quilting
3.      Christmas Postal Stamp quilt 76” sq, finish top, make backing, quilt it
4.      Bad to the Bone quilt it
5.       Fancy Forest  more blocks to complete 
6.      Grand Illusions make a backing then quilt it
7.      Hawaii quilt finish quilt top and quilt it
8.      Misty Day (small) quilt it 
9.      Get a rainbow quilt top done and quilt it too
10.      Eye project - baby quilt, start it
11.      Slab blocks with Canadian fabric in it. 

Alletaire Mystery quilt is in this state now. I would like to get the top complete soon but I may not finish the quilting too quickly as other are on the list first.

Piecing UFO - not planning to finish in time for quilt shows but needs work

1. KFC log cabin started in a swap, all blocks done, needs design wall work.
2. Red brown log cabin more then 1/2 blocks done, many more still to do
3. Pineapple log cabin with white, more blocks need piecing 
4. Adam's plaid quilt, lots of piecing needed
5. Celtic Solstice mystery blocks done needs work
6. Garden Party
7. Dear Jane in KFC many more blocks needs work, some applique
8. Pizza box exchange still going around
9. Scrappy Trips Around the world in KFC Reds blocks done needs to be put together.
10. Nov 2016 Bonnie Hunter mystery En Provence 
11. Gemma improve piecing in purple

KFC Hexagons 1" with bubble gum Kona

Hand stitching to work on

1. Baltimore applique
2. KFC Hexagons with bubble gum pink Kona
3. The New Hexagons or Glorious Hexagons
4. 3/4" hexagons started in the RSC what to do next?
5. Leaves and daises stitched in latter stitch  

My list of UFOs still has another 35 quilts listed but not listed here today.  Some will get worked on and a few I may not go back to. I am not ready to give up on them yet. Someday I might give away or sell some of the partly done quilts.

Christmas Quilt part 2

I did some more work on my Christmas quilt. I am getting ready to put all the blocks together with the sashing. I am planning to make it 4 blocks square. I think it makes the quilt 76" square.

I have added this post to Judy's Design Wall Monday. It has been a few months since I showed a quilt on design wall Monday, so glad to get my act together. 

I have another quilt taking up a 3rd of my wall. I had kind of pushed it off to one side. How ever my quilt needs 4 blocks wide so I just pinned the blocks in place. Kind of a mess. I hope to get an hour tonight to work on it some more. there are some small white squares missing. Then start on the sashing. 

Gemma and I did the Pace agility trial this past weekend. We had so much fun. We had 5 runs and did not pass any of our runs but there was some very good things. Gemma was very good. Most of the time it was my fault, being late or not fast enough for her. We are off for a training time later today. 

Christmas Quilt Started

1) Nutcracker Ballet fabric, 2) black labs on blue 3) three colours of labs with Christmas on pink

I found a sale on Spoonflower fabric just before Christmas. They had 2 for the price of one Fat Quarters. Spoonflower has so many pretty fabrics and I liked so many of the dog themed fabrics. I had to order some of the fabric. I ordered 10 FQ and here are 3 of the Christmas prints. They were not in my hands till after Christmas but that is OK. I just started my Christmas quilt in early December and have many more blocks to make. 

The Christmas quilt was started when I won the blue penguin fabric from the Leduc guild Christmas party. I just loved it. I also bought more turquoise and the red print, just a sample of what I bought.  

9 patches, this is 3 rows of 3 nine patches. 

So for my Christmas I am making postage stamps blocks. Yes small 2 inch cut squares. I love some squares. I raider all my Christmas fabric and cut a few hundred 2" squares. I also went looking in my stash of 2" water colour square. I found lots in the water colour squares. I used many reds that are not real Christmas but I wanted lots of red so I am using them. 

My first block. It is 9 squares by 9 squares. So the size is 13 1/2".

This one was a little better to sew. I got bit of a system going now. I make rows of 3 squares. Some light dark light L/D/L and some that are D/L/D. Then I make nine patches. Half the nine patches start with light in the top corner and half are dark in the top corner. Then I make three rows of 3 nine patches. 

Planning the sashing too. I really hope I can have this quilt done for this fall. The Leduc Guild is having a quilt show this fall and I would like this to be in the show. 

I bought the backing fabric this past weekend. It was 40% off plus I finished the bolt so got another 5% off. The little foxes are so cute. I will also put a few little foxes on the front in the squares. 

After Christmas my family often does an order from Amazon. We order the stuff we did not get for Christmas. One year we all got cards so the trend started. The order arrived yesterday, I got the New Hexagon Calendar and the colouring book. I am still working on my Glorious Hexagons. Also more power cords and plugs for my phone.