Quilting A Christmas Card

The whole fourth dimension that my mom was piecing the Christmas Tree carte du jour quilt, she in addition to I were discussing how to quilt it. We decided that nosotros wanted to quilt a garland of holly in addition to ivy inwards the broad blood-red border.

For me, the commencement pace inwards quilting a novel pattern is ever to do it on newspaper earlier I fifty-fifty mean value virtually approaching the machine. I accept a huge long scroll of tracing newspaper that I similar to endure for practising my quilting designs. I practised the pattern below for a pair hours (the ikon is slightly grainy because tracing newspaper doesn't seem to similar beingness photographed!). Mom fifty-fifty brought me inwards or thence ivy from the garden thence I could effort in addition to re-create it to a greater extent than accurately!


Then came the actual quilting! We loaded the quilt onto the frame, in addition to and then auditioned or thence threads to run into which ones nosotros would endure first.  


We ended upwards using  King Tut #988 Oasis for the garland. The King Tut creates a beautifully bold line, in addition to nosotros truly wanted the quilting to stand upwards out. In the ikon below, yous tin run into the halt of the garland. this is truly 2 layers of thread - I used Twist, in addition to and then King Tut #988. The berries were done using Magnifico. 


Next was the Christmas trees themselves! I used King Tut over again (this fourth dimension #981 Cobra) for the branches. It was a real striking effect, in addition to I similar how every tree is slightly dissimilar - almost similar existent life! 



Between the Christmas trees, I used Fantastico #5170 Pixie Dust to do curls that looked a piddling combat similar swirling snow. This thread was beautiful to use, in addition to it wasn't a thread that I would accept straightaway idea to endure amongst a white background. On the cone it looks a lot to a greater extent than colourful! It blended beautifully, leaving behind a wonderful, snowy texture. 

The in conclusion quilt looked a LOT similar the master copy Christmas carte du jour that mom based her piecing on. We similar the quilted version ameliorate though! 


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