This quilt started life as a Benartex panel depicting the 12 Days of Christmas; I bought it at the end of 1998, but I didn’t get around to doing anything with it until the summer of 2001. The pattern was designed by Jackie Robinson, putting the individual pieces of the panel into a log cabin setting with dimensional stars in the sashing and border. I modified the pattern just a bit in size, so it ended up measuring roughly 43″ x 65″. It was machine pieced and machine quilted. I didn’t think that it needed lots of fancy quilting, since the fabrics are so busy, so I just stitched in the ditch along some of the “logs” and then used gold metallic thread to free-motion outline the motifs in each block center.
Here is a detail of one of the blocks:
