corner bakery christmas quilt

In a guild Christmas party this week, someone was asked "how many Christmas quilts do you have displayed in your house right now?" .......

the woman's answer was "well, I just downsized so, only 10".  I looked around and didn't see any surprised faces...   

(Whaaaaaat???  I guess I haven't been quilting very long)

Dad and I frequent the Corner Bakery Cafe for supper.  While waiting for our soup one evening, I was intrigued by our order no. card sitting on the table, specifically the top ......

so I created a place for it in the quilt on my design board :)

and in the binding.  

The center is a Schnibbles pattern by Carrie Nelson.

I always hang my Christmas laundry out in the snow ... don't you?

'match stick' ..... the craze in the fmq world.  

Angela Walters has some helpful information about it here.

 You can find buffalo checked in minky at Missouri star.  

stats:

42" x 55" - lap size
pattern for middle section is Reveille from Schnibbles by Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. 

fabric: count down to Christmas by Sweetwater and  "Christmas Cherry" by Aneela Honey and buffalo checked.

free motion quilted on my HQ Sweetsixteen 

(by me in my Christmas pjs :)

gifted to Emily

 Merry Christmas to all...

LINKED up:

finish it up friday!

   . . . thank you Amandajean.

finish it up Friday - family tree

The family tree is finally quilted, bound and is hanging.  This was a really fun project to make with my daughter-in-law.  She embroidered all the names, and I quilted it for her.

I had some potential problems with wavy borders since the middle was so tightly quilted, but a bias binding really helped balance that out.  You can read more about the process of this project here and here.  

I was thinking of leaving the middle part unquilted (above), but I'm so glad I didn't! (below)

LINKED:

finish it up Friday w/ Crazy Mom Quilts