Diamonds For Christmas

Diamonds For Christmas

How's that for the name of my annual Christmas design? No, I'm not talking about jewelry, but fabric diamonds instead. 

I love pretty Christmas quilts and use them all over the house for decoration.

Jolly red and green prints are combined with black, gray, and white for a scrappy holiday quilt. I used Blue Wren's diamond in a rectangle die, then added two sizes of half square triangles on the long and short sides to make a square block.

For quilting, I chose a zig-zag utility stitch with white thread on the front and dark gray in the bobbin. A cute Christmas light fabric is perfect for backing and binding. A slightly wider binding frames the quilt nicely. Diamonds For Christmas finished at 53" square. 

Dies used:
Blue Wren
6381 Diamond in Rectangle 3” x 6” finished

Accuquilt
55147 Half square triangle 2¼” finished
55397 Half Square Triangle 4½” finished
55032 Strip 3½” for binding

Wishing everyone 

a happy, safe, 

and relaxing Christmas! 

Petting Zoo & Christmas Donation

This darling quilt is constructed with animal themed fabrics, most given to me by a friend, some picked up at estate sales. Cats, dogs, lions, owls, rabbits, llamas and other critters frolic with coordinating prints.

I used the snowball block, with black weave on the corners. Piecing was done on Elizabeth, my vintage Singer 404. Petting Zoo is 48” square. I quilted with white thread, adding straight and serpentine stitches across the center of the blocks.

Petting Zoo

Accuquilt dies used:
55330 Snowball 6” finished
55017 Strip 2½”

🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄

Christmas donation 

This was one of a group of quilts that I donated to a local senior living facility. The ladies were so surprised when this Santa's helper dropped by. It was lovely to see those smiles as they unwrapped their gifts.

Spread some

J O Y

this Christmas

 

Wild Crimson

Wild Crimson

Let's start December with a classic red quilt. I cut a variety of red prints into quarter square triangles and started stitching light and dark ones together.

I juggled the blocks around on my design wall till I was satisfied with the arrangement. After adding 2” black weave and 4” red dot borders, Wild Crimson measures 48” square.

A serpentine stitch with red thread across the seams makes a lovely pattern. I especially enjoyed making this lap quilt because I added it to my Christmas donation stack. I'll tell you more about that project later this month.

Accuquilt dies used:
55002 Quarter Square Triangles 6” finished
55017 Strip 2½” (border 1 and binding)
55054 Strip 4½” (border 2)

CHRISTMAS

IS DOING A LITTLE

SOMETHING EXTRA

FOR SOMEONE

~ Charles M. Schultz