Amy's Blogger Quilt Festival Entry

Are you playing along with Amy?
I thought I would share my Christmas quilts that Grandma Kath and I made.
Here is the story of how they came to be.

Last year I found out about Monica of The Happy Zombie.

I love her, her posts are so funny, and she knows her stuff.

Not to mention how CUTE her fabrics are.

Last year she posted her quilt called Rectangle Reverie.

I fell in love with it, I had been buying red and white Christmas fabric for years.

Every year I would go the Joann's and get whatever red and white fabric they had.

When I saw Monica's quilt I knew that I was finally going to put my collection to good use.

At this same time Grandma Kath wanted to make quilts for her daughter's.

She has never made a quilt and wanted to learn how.

I figured that this would be an easy one, with no corner's to match.

Since the pattern calls for ten fat quarters, and I had ten half yard pieces,

we made two red ones. Then headed down to our friendly neighborhood Joann's.

When we got there we found all the Christmas fabrics on sale 90% off,

add with Kath's teacher discount, are you kidding me!!!  

Kath liked the Debbie Mum's best, so that is what we got for the other two.

Did you want to see?

This one is mine, how cute is it!

Here is the back

My little back patch with all the fabrics from the front.

I love it and can't wait to make some more.

Here is the quilting, Picnik didn't like my pictures this morning, so I couldn't highlight it.

The red ones got snow flakes.

The Debbie Mum's got holly berries and stuff.

I am so happy with how they turned out.

Go on over to Amy's blog and see what everyone's been up to.

My Quilt Story and a Swap

I am featured to day on Quilt Story.

Go check me out, I am talking about my Jeweled Wedding Ring quilt. 

If you do go check it out you will see that I am wanting to make this quilt again.

I know, I would be the crazy one.

I want to make a Christmas quilt.

I want the red rings to be green.

The white centers to stay white and

all the joining pieces to be red.

For the petals I will make them green and then quilt them like holly leaves

For the circles I want to have all different Christmas fabrics.

I think they will look like lights on the Christmas tree branches.

Won't it be adorable.

I went to picnik and played way to long and made a mock up.

something like this.

Squint a little it might look better.

So even though I am still waiting on two packages from my first swap,

and even though I still haven't filled up Patty's swap,

 I am going to have a Christmas swap.

No colors to assign.

Nothing specific just as long as it is Christmas.

This is the plan gather 10 Christmas fabrics.(1/4 yard or fat quarter)

They can be from your stash or new from the store.

Cut them into 20, 4" squares send them to me by November 1,

and you will get in return 200 all different Christmas fabrics.

You can use them for a Christmas quilt of your own.

You can make stockings out of them.

You can use them to decorate your Christmas tree.

You can use them to make Christmas cards.

You can join me in making my Christmas Jeweled Wedding Ring quilt.

Because, I know you want to.

I think this will be fun I am hoping to get three swaps,

because it will take over 600 circles to make my quilt,

and I don't want any repeats.

So who is with me.

Leave me a comment with your email and you are in.

If you still want in on the fall color swap there are still spots open.

Leave me a comment on what color you want,

Kendra from ScrappinCricut I haven't heard back from you and I am holding a spot for you.

Let the fun begin.