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This quilt was supposed to be done by Christmas this year, but that didn’t happen. The top was, though. And it only took me a couple of weeks to make it. So I’m calling it a win anyway. Quilt tops can sometimes take months for me to finish.
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It was my plan to use only Christmas fabric from my stash, but the Christmas stash isn’t very big, so I did buy a handful of fat quarters to make up the yardage I needed.
The Christmas fabric I already had was mostly from Denmark, so there are a few nisse prints and some linen-y colours. I was a bit worried that they wouldn’t play well with the more contemporary prints I added. But I quite like the contrast. And the scrappiness. The quilts I love the most are kinda random and scrappy. So all is well.
And Blake seems to approve too. ;-)
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I tried really hard to keep the directional prints right side up, but here’s a humble block. Almost right in the middle. I am happy that it happened because it shows that the quilt is made by a human. Maybe I was distracted by Blake barking at something or I was thinking about what to have for dinner.
Humble blocks make me smile. :-)
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One of my favourite prints, little nisser from Denmark. :-)
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I love the stained glass feel of looking through the quilt top against the light…