It Started Alongside A Christmas Card...


It all started alongside a retro 1950's Christmas card. 

 I consider that this 1952 Christmas carte past times Charley Harper could interpret truly good into a Christmas quilt as well as thence I pinned it on my Christmas pinterest board. I similar using pinterest boards equally  design boards for diverse quilts that are percolating inward my head. The pinterest board keeps all the ideas inward a house that I tin truly notice when I desire to come upward dorsum to it later.


This twelvemonth when nosotros were planning a Christmas video clip for our friends at Superior Threads nosotros decided to interpret the carte into a quilt. Because I dearest the quilting role best these days, I commonly run into the pieced operate past times equally a 'canvas' for the quilting.  When I slice a quilt I am already thinking nearly how to quilt it. I was thinking fifty-fifty at the showtime of the projection how fun it would survive to draw the branches alongside the sewing machine needle as well as thread.


First I raided my light-green stuff stash as well as  pieced the trees. I used So Fine #50 for the piecing alongside Bottom Line pre-wounds inward the bobbin. These real fine lint-free threads gave me apartment seams as well as overnice abrupt points for my triangles.


Then I needed to appliqué my tree-cutter someone inward the larger white triangle. I used Kimono Silk on operate past times as well as Bottom Line pre-wounds inward the bobbin for the machine appliqué.  


These silk threads blend as well as thence good alongside the fabric! I similar how the raw-edge appliqué technique makes the figures look to pop-up out of the quilt.


Finally nosotros decided to add together a broad cherry-red border. We were planning to usage this border to quilt a holly as well as ivy garland to frame the trees.


Here's the operate past times all pieced as well as cook to larn on the JUKI QVP 2200 long arm frame. We'll verbalise to a greater extent than nearly the quilting inward the side past times side post...

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