Christmas Mini Quilt Swap

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Here's a special little slide show to let everyone know how wonderful my new Christmas quilt looks in our home. Press the play button and enjoy the show. When the cursor is on the slide some magic stars get sprinkled on the screen. Many thanks to Phyllis for her lovely work and dedication to this fine project and cute, coordinating ornament! I love it!

More Details of Christmas Mini Quilt

I'm getting even more inspired on this little quilt that I am making for Margaret's Christmas mini quilt swap. It is a secret project I will be sending out to my partner soon. I did work directly from a pattern I had at home called "Delightful" by Sandy Gervais. I love her fabrics and patterns that she designs for Moda and her pattern company Pieces From My Heart.

Previously I had made a cute table runner for Christmas called Table Attire and I just love the cheerful look during the whole holiday time. I changed the pattern just a bit, when I modified the 3 ornaments with crazy patch piecing.

Getting Inspired to Make a Christmas Mini Quilt

I have some designing to do for a Christmas Mini quilt. I'd like to incorporate some of my blocks from the Thimbleberries club patterns for 3's Company. They are so easy to make and I have some on hand as I've made extra from Christmas scraps when I made the regular blocks of the month.

I also love the Holly Jolly and Merry & Bright fabrics from Moda's past seasons and have found that the newer Clothworks fabrics called Peppermint Cottage blends right in with some of my favorites.

I'd like to present it all to my swap partner in a stocking. I had made so many of these in July at my local quilt shop that I could make them in my sleep. We made more than 175 to send to Iowa, they were packed with treats there and sent on to the soldiers to cheer them this Christmas.

~Kathy~ the Cottage Garden Quilter