Saturday, July 24, 2010

Christmas in July... Finally Done!

I know, I've mentioned this before.

It's finally finished!
Hurray!
Get a good look, and then I'm packing it away until Christmas ;D

Front... 

and back.

The fabric is The Caroler, by Mary Engelbreit,
and the border and backing (polka dots!) are from Jo-Ann.

This one took a little longer because for the first time
I actually paid to have it quilted by a Real Quilter -
a friend of mine who makes quilts and does custom quilting,
and about the time she finished with the quilting,
we were having a few hot days and there was 
NO WAY
 I was going to sit around with a heavy quilt on my lap.
I'd probably sweat on it.

She did a great job.
I always love the way washing a quilt brings out
all those happy little wrinkles :D

Here's a close-up.

And with some leftovers, I made this table runner.

And then I put all my sewing stuff AWAY.
But my fingers are itching to make something else...

3 comments:

Cutzi said...

Beautiful Julie! You are totally feeding my quilting itch... do you think it's catchy?

Herding Grasshoppers said...

Definitely!

And thanks, Cutzi :D

The dB family said...

Julie, you do beautiful work! Aren't you finding it hard to put it away even though it's a Christmas quilt?

Blessings!
Deborah