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:
This quilt was the result of a project at the local quilt circle I attend. It uses lots of fabrics, so we had a strip swap first in order to get a huge variety for the quilt. I machine pieced and machine quilted it, finishing in January, 2006. It’s a small throw, measuring 36″ x 42″.
In August, 2015, I took a two-day class in Phoenix from Claudia Dinnell; I’d fallen in love with her digitized quilt design, and taking the class was the only way to get the pattern. The class was well worth it, too, as she has a special technique to make multiple hoopings for embroidered blocks a bit more precise. I worked on the quilt on and off for several months and finally finished it in April, 2016. It is completely machine embroidered and machine quilted. Most of the quilting is free motion, though I did use the walking foot for the parallel lines in the red borders. The quilt measures approximately 62″ x 62″.
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