Merry Christmas to me!

okay, so last year around this time I decided to start making myself a quilt for my living room. I had never made myself a quilt yet and since I was in a christmas mood (dont know why, but I was just ready to get my christmas on!!) I decided to make one using my favorite pattern. This is really easy and is charm pack friendly. I made this is soft pink and blue floral prints too - check out my blog post on Bowyns Stars.

sorry for the poor picture quality, most of my pictures of my older quilts were taken on my phone. These fabrics are from my local quilt shop - a big mixture of different designers. They all have some metallic gold in each print so it is nice and sparkly!

One of my FAVORITES!!!

Okay, so for the next week or so, I am going to post pictures of some of my quilts I made in the past. this one is one of my favorites (I wanted to keep it for my living room). I made this for my husbands best friend, Resse, and his wife Kim. They were expecting their first child and decided not to find out the sex of the baby (They had a girl, Delaney and she is so stinkin' cute!!). I chose these fabrics because they are very country and the Lord is a big part of their lives. I love how how the crosses pop out of the circles. I found a picture online (bad memory, I cant remember where I saw it) and it said the pattern was the scrapbuster quilt from Material Obsession by Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke. I immediately went online to purchase the book then found out there are 2 books (Material Obsession and Material Obsession Two) so of course, I had to purchase both books! hehe. FYI, this pattern is in the Material Obsession two book...

Well, just so you know the scrapbuster pattern doesn't look anything like my quilt and for a second I thought I had purchased the wrong books because I couldn't find it (Although I did find MUCH inspiration in these two books). But I was dead set on the cross pattern. I kept staring at the one labeled "Scrapbuster" and realized the other person whose quilt gave me the inspiration was that pattern just every other block was rotated. Here is what the original pattern looks like in the book - Beautiful huh!

So if you make your blocks a little differently, this is what I got

It is crazy how different they look! This is my first piano key border and love it! Will do it again on my next scrappy quilt. This quilt was pretty labor intensive as I wanted to have at least 5 fabrics in each wedge and only made my strip steps long enough to cut 3 maybe 4 wedges from it (I didn't want anyone to notice a repeat of the fabrics. I did stay consistent with the corner pieces being blue polk a dot and green polk a dot. I wish I would have done 4 different ones instead of two, maybe like a rust orange polk a dot and mustard yellow but what is done is done - I still love it.

My backing fabric, I did the fold over binding (this was before I realized I LOVE hand sewing the binding on)

A close up of my quilting I did on it - not the best but I was trying out the l's and e's I learned in a machine quilting class I took.

This quilt measures probably 70" square