Okay, so the pattern that I found was from Red Rooster Fabrics and it’s called “Peppermint Christmas”, here’s the link: http://www.redroosterfabrics.com/content5743.html
The directions weren’t as clear as I would have liked and I obviously used different quilting material, but I’m not unhappy with how it turned out.
Have I mentioned how much I LOVE the rotary cutter? These are the pieces for the star block that is the center of the quilt. I changed my mind so many times while trying to figure out which fabric would be used for which shapes. In the end, I completely went off the reservation for everything except the star block. Below is how it’s supposed to look:
Instead my star block ended up looking like this:
I started cutting the pieces at 9am and finished the quilt at 5pm. When I say I finished the quilt, I mean the facing and backing is done and the batting has been cut to size. We had purchased a lot of “Warm and Natural” cotton batting from Joanns for a steal on black Friday. I should also mention that I really increased my skill at seam ripping. I started off sewing the wrong direction and was hoping it wasn’t a harbinger of things to come with this quilt. Honestly, I should have been able to finish it a lot sooner than I did.
Here is the finished quilt front and back, I’m currently going over ideas of the quilt pattern I will use. Any ideas?
The year before last, let’s call it Christmas 2010 I purchased all twelve of the “block of the month” packages from Joann’s fabric store. I was really good keeping up each month with the blocks up until about September where I really lost steam. I actually started making Christmas quilts from flannel which was more rewarding to me at the time.
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