In 2016 and 2017 I sewed two 45x60 inch Christmas quilts! I love pulling them out each year and wanted to share more photos and details here in case they may inspire your own quilting this season.
My 2016 quilt is a standard equilateral triangle quilt. My triangles were 5 inches high. There are 11 rows and each row contains 14 triangles (plus two half triangles). I used ten types of cotton fabric. Picking fabric for patterned quilts remains my absolute dream job. I generally try to stick with 2-3 colors (here it's green, red, pink...with white and tan as a bonus) and look for small, simple patterns. (More detail on how I pick fabrics here!)
I backed this quilt with a dark green and bound it my favorite way –– with a contrasting tiny stripe.
For the 2017 quilt, I followed a pattern! You can find the full tutorial here. This time, I wanted the fabrics used to be solid colors so the trees really stood out as the pattern.
I again used three colors (green, red, pink with white and tan as neutrals) but 12 different fabrics. I have a few different shades of green, pink and red which (to me) give the quilt more interest. My finished quilt has eight rows of trees with ten trees per row.
This one was such a fun one to work on because it was so different from my normal quilts. I especially loved quilting it all together. Instead of using long lines of stitches, I went around every other tree with thread. I had metallic gold thread on top and white thread in my bobbin which made a pretty design on the front and back.
Again, of course, I stuck with my striped binding.
I don't have plans for a 2020 Christmas quilt (I am elbow deep in a cross-stitch project –– here's a link to the pattern; I am changing the colors as I go) but hopefully 2021? Something else pink, white, red, green and tan probably? Maybe something with small squares...
PS...this cutting tool set is what I use for all of my quilting projects.
