Welcome back! Quiltmaker’s Countdown to Christmas continues with a giveaway of great Kansas City Star books. There will be five lucky winners.
Do you know that feeling when you see something and it just grips you—you absolutely love it? This happens to me with fabric, with entire quilts, with color schemes and with quilt blocks. It happened to me when I opened The Spirit of Sacajawea by Laurie Simpson and Polly Minick.
I’m often drawn to repetition. I like its orderliness. See the block in the top left corner of the quilt below? The numerous hills or bumps that suggest leaves really appealed to me, and I loved the bird and berries, too.
Last weekend I decided to whip up one of these blocks. I thought it would make a great Christmas wall hanging.
I wanted non-traditional colors, so I pulled a gray print and several bright fabrics to complement it. I prepared the applique pieces and fused them down (fusing is wonderful for a down-and-dirty get-it-done-fast project). But when I put the block up on my design wall, I was really disappointed. It just didn’t sing.
I think the problem started with a background fabric that was too busy. It takes away from that gorgeous wreath. It seems to swallow up the bright colors. There isn’t enough contrast between the background and the design elements. The berry colors were off. I stopped right there…
…and changed to a more traditional Christmas color scheme. You can hardly go wrong with a shirting for the background plus turkey red, poison green and a bit of cheddar thrown in for accent. This version is so much better!
You can really see the difference when the blocks are viewed side by side. Quite a contrast, isn’t it?
You’ll find a bevy of gorgeous blocks in The Spirit of Sacajawea, which carries the subtitle “A Textile Tribute to an American Heroine” and was the Kansas City Star’s 2012 Block of the Month. I enjoyed reading about this young woman’s role in the early history of our country. The book is a lovely combination of history and beauty—what could be better?!
Here’s another title from Kansas City Star Quilts I really enjoyed. Czecherboard Quilts by Rose Ann Cook is subtitled “Stories from my father’s family.” Cook set out to learn more of her family’s history and then designed quilts to honor the family members she discovered. The quilts are doable and beautiful, and the family stories that are interspersed throughout the book held my attention.
The Garden Quilt: Interpreting a Masterpiece will interest lovers of applique and quilt history. Authors Barbara Brackman and Ilyse Moore have researched a masterpiece quilt called The Garden by Mrs. Edward B. Irish. One book in 1929 called the quilt “exquisite” and stated that “Words can scarcely describe this triumph of the needle.” Similar quilts have been found, some with links to Emporia, Kansas, but much remains a mystery, and The Garden Quilt will pique your interest in this topic. Instructions are given for a variation of the quilt called Paradise in Kansas.
Returning to our Christmas theme, Memories of Christmas Past features a beautiful sampler quilt in traditional colors. Each of 12 sampler blocks includes a Nine Patch twist. These blocks surround a center of Poinsettia and Nine Patch blocks. Best of all, throughout the book Carolyn Nixon shares childhood memories of growing up in the Ozarks during the 1950s. Her co-author is Betsey Langford, and the two have included six companion projects ranging from a table runner to a memory journal.
And if you enjoy decorating your home for Christmas and other holidays, you’ll love Deck the Halls by Lynda Hall. This title has quilts to inspire family traditions. The country look abounds and there is easy wool applique on pillows and wall hangings.
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Each of these books goes to one lucky Quilty Pleasures reader. Please leave a comment below before midnight Friday, Dec. 14 and tell us how you use quilts to decorate your home for Christmas. We’ll choose winners and announce them here next week. The lucky winners are: Celeste (#78), JuliaP (#13), Patricia (#47), Diantha (#136) and Barbara (#48). Congratulations!
I have a lot of Christmas quilts and I hung them up on my walls when advent starts.
Rather than using quilts I have lots of table runners and wall hangings around the family home.
Thanks for the great book reviews.
Happy days.
Bev.xoxo
I have Christmas wall hangings in addition to quilts that decorate my home.
I have one christmas quilt and it is currently on the bed, i didn`t realize how I shorted myself! But I do have primitive Christmas Angel ornies that I hang on my tree and I had made reindeer and sleigh for my Aunt many years ago when she passed I got them back and they are displayed on our Buffet.
I have one wall where I hang all my small Christmas quilts. I like to add a new one each year.
As a new quilter, I don’t have any Christmas quilts yet, though I am working on a wallhanging to hang at the top of our stairs. My goal is to make a Christmas quilt for every bed, once I finish making an everyday quilt for every bed.
I put a colorful queen-size quilt (Christmas present) on our bed, and a red/green throw quilt on the love seat, and some Christmas table runners & mats on flat surfaces. There are also a few quilty decorations for the tree. Thanks for the great giveaway – I love quilt books.
I live in Skandinavia so I have a christmas calender wall hanging quilt. I have made couple bed quilts which are on beds now. I’m making a table runner currently and I have looked up a pattern for a tree skirt.
Thanks for a nice book review.
My Christmas quilts are wall hangings. I have a lap sized for my reading chair which is a WIP – maybe next year. Happy quilting.
I have seasonal quilts at the foot of my stairwell and at Christmas, I bring out two family favorites for used when the fireplace is just not enough warmth.
I have one over the back of the couch, and one on the bed, but alas, I keep giving them away after I make them, and have none to decorate with! spending xmas with my daughter, who hung the quilted placemats I made her on her wall, as she says they’re too cool to put on the table…does that count?
I’m new to quilting (just started this year), but I have a finished quilted tree skirt, and two quilted (log cabin) Christmas pillows for the couch!
So far in my quilting life, I’ve managed to make 2 Christmas lap quilts and a tree skirt. Would love to make a Christmas bed quilt but haven’t found the right pattern. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I put table runners and wall hanging around the house during Christmas. Thanks for the chance to win!
As a new quilter, I don’t have much to warm my home at the holidays. This year I quilted a very simple tree skirt from the piece of fabric that I had been using under the tree for several years. It was so nice to see it finished off!
We have a big basket full of quilts by the fireplace. They don’t stay in there for very long because we all like to snuggle up with them while watching tv
I use Christmas quilts on the walls, draped over tables, on tables and cabinets. Quilts are a major part of my decorating for Christmas! I even made some giant stockings to hang at the front door entry! Thanks for the chance to win!
love to bring Christmas cheer using red and green wallhangings
I have a table topper tree quilt that I put up on Dec. 1st. Then there’s the Santa on the wall and the almost finished quilt for the bed. That will be next year’s addition.
I use quilts and tablerunners to decorate my classroom for the season. The kids love the change of seasons in my room
I have several Christmas quilts and runners throughout my home at Christmas – and one more to go. I have a Santa quilt in with my Santa collection, and I’ve recently found the best pattern for an Angel quilt to go with the Angels.
I love to display my quilts by draping them over the chair or couch and on my bed.
Lots of smaller items – haven’t finished my “Dogs at Christmas” quilt – got to quilt it !
I pull out my Christmas quilts Thanksgiving evening to kick off the Christmas season. If there is a wall, nook or cranny, it gets festooned with homemade treasures.
I love having my quilts and runners out all over my home….now i just need more walls/spaces. looking forward to making a great Christmas quilt for next year…this year’s didn’t happen….yet!!
Sad to say i dont have much.. YET… to decorate with for christmas. Im on a mission though that by next year i will have a few things. I do have a few cute hand made ornaments.
I have a tree skirt which I use every year. I’m afraid I give away almost every quilt I make so the quilter’s cupboards are bare (just like the shoemaker’s children have no shoes). But I do love the Sacajawea quilt. I’ve been very tempted to purchase the book but winning a copy would be even better! Merry Christmas to all!
I use my quilts as wallhangings, tablerunners and have them on all my chairs and couch. When we are just sitting around there is a quilt to snuggled with.
I love folksy quilts and now I’ve become enamored with Modern style. I would definitely love to try new color variations and styles. These books are so varied and full of wonderful patterns to play with!
You know you are a quilter when….you have more Christmas quilts and wallhangings than you have places to put them! I have my Christmassy creations hanging all over my home during the holiday seasons. If I had to choose a favourite it would be Gail Pan’s Busy Little Christmas Elves that hangs in my rec room….
Haven’t made any Christmas quilts yet, but have lots of table runners, placemats, and a treeskirt or two that I decorate the halls with. Thanks for a wonderful giveaway.
I think I would first make some Christmas pillows with some of the designs and then make a Christmas quilt for next year. Thank you for the chance to win and HappynHolidays!
Mary
All of these books look great! They would make wonderful gifts for many of my quilty friends! Thanks for the giveaway!
I didn’t set out to make lots of Christmas quilt but somehow we have three and another in the works. Add in the panels and we have Christmas on the sofas, my son’s bed, and a decorated Christmas tree (panel) on the wall.
I don’t decorate with quilts specifically for Christmas. Do you think I should?
Rather my quilts are out all year long…on walls, on furniture, on beds, on shelves. They’re everywhere you look in my house.
I just finished the tops for two Christmas projects. I will have to get them quilted next year. The books all Loki very interesting. Happy Holidays!
I have quilted table toppers, tree skirt, 2 wall hangings, candle mats, pillows & bed quilts, as well as several throws, all in Christmas fabric. I love to decorate for Christmas!
Have a number of quilts in all stages of finishing. Each year I make a resolution to finish all I have started before starting another. Well, we all know how that goes. LOL I am sure I could find another quilt to start in one of those books!! To my credit I did do 2 table runners for my sister and niece for Christmas. Finished them and sent them off.
I really haven’t used quilts to decorate for Christmas, because I don’t have any and haven’t had a chance to make any Christmas quilts yet! I would really like to make the BOM Jennifer Chiaverini Christmas Quilt.
I do have several Christmas cross-stitch pieces that are ornaments for the tree or on the wall, and I enjoy using those to decorate. some are gifts and some I’ve completed myself.
I have some Christmas wall hangings and a tree skirt. I don’t have a Christmas quilt. The ones I make always end up on someone else’s bed!
I don’t have any Christmas quilts yet but I am planning on making a wallhanging before year’s end.
I love Christmas and have made and given special Christmas quilts to most of the children in my world. I have a hand quilted Christmas quilt on my couch and another one I made that is my favorite sitting on the back of a chair which will be slept under on Christmas Eve but is good for naps/reading under while sitting by the tree for now. I love Christmas and still look for projects to do, if only I had more time!!! Today is my birthday (12/12/12) and any of the books you have shown us look amazing. Merry Christmas to one and all.
All of my Christmas quilted items have been given away – I think every year I will keep something for myself, but then somebody shows up and likes it so off it goes — I like doing table runners, potholds and the quick things with the scraps I have from making my daughter and her friends uniform scrub tops
I decorate my home with Christmas wall hangs and table runners and quilt on back of the chairs and couches.
I am just a beginning quilter, but have my sights on a Christmas quilt. Gifts for next year Christmas Table Runners and who know what else.
I use quilts everywhere I can….. on the walls, over the arm of a chair, as a tablecloth, and under my village scene. Thanks for a chance at a great bundle of books.
I sew like crazy to make quilts for others in time for Christmas giving so consequently I don’t have any for myself. I decorate with a quilted tree skirt and a seasonal tablerunner with matching placemats. Merry Christmas to the wonderful QM staff!
I use two quilted Christmas throws color-coordinated with my room decor. I also use a quilted wall-hanging that is part of a calendar block of the month series. I hope to make a Christmas bed quilt (maybe before next Christmas).
I have made and display wall hangings and table runners. Thanks for the chance to win!
Would love to use more quilts in decorating, but gave them away! I have a quilted Christmas Tree Skirt and a Christmas throw. Some pillows, too.
I have a Christmas tree skirt that I use each year. I also have an advent calendar, which I haven’t found this year. Darn! Thanks for the chance to win.
I made a log cabin wreath Christmas quilt!
I don’t have Christmas quilts, per se, but I have MANY wall hangings and other Christmasy quilted decorations. I have enough hand made ornaments to decorate a good sized tree too.
These books look amazing! Would love to have a copy! Thank you for the chance and Merry Christmas!
I love to show off my quilts over the back of chairs and the couch. Also have runners and wall hangings.
I have quilted pillows, ornaments, tree skirt, and wall hanging to decorate for Christmas.
I have a log cabin wreath quilt in the hall and another log cabin quilt I put over the back of the sofa. Also have an octagon shaped topper for my side table under the lamp. Merry Christmas-I am done decorating!
I use holiday quilts wherever I can…runners on tables, small quilts draped over the backs of couches, and larger ones as special seasonal bed covers and hanging from rods in hallways and staircases. They just add so much warmth, color and uniqueness to a home!
I don’t actually have any Christmas quilts as I have not been quilting that long but by next year I plan to have a Christmas quilt made as I have most of the fabric for it. I also have a table runner that I have the fabric for and if I get it finished by Christmas I will be using it this year. I am hoping to spend this coming year working on some quilting projects that I can use next year in my Christmas decorating.
Christmas quilt, a cup of cocoa and carols playing, watching the kids decorate.
That’s the best way to start the season.
I just realized this year that I don’t have an actual quilt to cuddle in during Christmas – just the usual assortment of table runners, wall quilts, and ornments. I think that will be my next project!
I cover the walls with quilted hangings I’ve done, one per room, then I smile alot as I walk past them.
I often use red in my lap and wall quilts, from soft red to dark burgundy, so my quilts add a touch of Christmas to my living and dining rooms. I have 3 of them folded on a rocking chair, one folded on the back of a comfortable chair and a 4-block Baltimore Album in red and green in the dining room.
All your books look wonderful, both for reading, patterns and inspiration. I’ve always been drawn to quilt books that give history and stories about women. What better way to learn about earlier times? Thanks for this giveaway.
I use quilts for decoration year round. At Christmas, I have ones for the walls, mostly angels, tables, and on all the quilt racks. A nativity scene, one of my first quilts, is always out.
Those look like great books. Can’t wait to check them out. My decorations using quilts include the table runner, placemats, and tree skirt, and also a runner along the mantle with quilted stockings hanging in front. I’m working on a Snowflake theme quilt in blues, but all the other items I use are reds and greens. You were right to choose traditional colors in the wreath, and love the Cheddar accent.
Although fairly new to quilting, it is my goal to make a different styled quilt for each of my loved ones…hope I achieve this!
I have several Christmas quilts and fabric for more. I love them. Also enjoy table runners on my tables. I also have wall hangings. I think Christmas quilts are quite fun and am always looking for new ideas
We actually leave out our Christmas quilts all year long and I have a few wallhangings that I have made and have put back for my children when they go off on their own (which unfortunately for me will be some time in the very near future). I have made table runners and I like to get all my shopping and baking done early and spend time on making Christmas quilts/ornaments/gifts closer to Christmas so I can enjoy the peace in my studio. Merry Christmas, everyone!
I love love love Little Quilts and I decorate all over my house with them. I have them as table toppers, on walls and in old doll cradles, etc.
I use wall quilts, bed quilts and table runners. I use as much for Christmas as I can. It’s one of my favorite times of year so I make lots of Christmas quilts.
I pretty much upholster my house with Christmas quilts, runners, table toppers and wall hangings. So many that I now have several at my office for the season. And I’m still making more. I love making the Christmas themed items.
I have lap quilts draped over each chair and the sofa in the living room, a quilted Christmas tree skirt, quilted pot holders and table cloth.
I use quilts and quilted items in almost every room of the house. I have quilted hot pads and trivets in the kitchen, table runners in the kitchen, dining room and on the coffee table in the living room. I have pillows and quilts on the couches. Quilted ornaments on the tree. A quilted wreath hangs inside the front door and a quilted tree skirt is under the tree. Of course, there are quilts hung on the walls and over the railing above the stairs. Since Christmas is my favorite holiday, I’ve been making quilted items for this season for 30+ years – I have a lot!
I am new to quilting so I don’t have much by way of quilting to decorate the house. I am making a table runner as my first project. I love the books. I have found that I gravitate towards older patterns and love Amish quilts. Newer quilts are great to look at but the colors and patterns of antique quilts are very comforting.
Very striking quilts and a little something for everyone.
We have a Christmas table runner, and always have our favorite lap quilts and bed quilts out. Plus, we’ve added a new dolly quilt that the under 2 yo grandnieces are using.
I’m a relatively new quilter so only have one Christmas quilt. I use it over the back of my couch. I’ll be creating more items for next Christmas. Thanks for the chance to win.
I use a Christmas themed wall hanging by the entryway, a table runner that I lay across the back of the couch, a beautiful quilted tree skirt made by my sister-in-law, and a small quilt that will lay across a love seat. Thanks for the chance to win books I would add to my quilting library!
This year, my very first quilt ever was made of panels of Christmas cats surrounding a very merry Christmas Mouse! I learned how to piece, sash, pin baste , quilt in the ditch , free motion quilt, and bind. It was a wonderful first experience and my quilt now graces our living room couch near our tree. My grandkids love to nap on it, make a tent with it and touch it. I am in love with quilting!
Have made Christmas quilts for my grandchildren and also wall hangings and table runners.
We always have a huge tree in the living room, and lighted Snow Village pieces all over the house. My Willow Tree nativity goes in the family room, and I usually hang Christmas-themed art work in each room.
As a new quilter, I don’t have any Christmas quilts yet, though I am working on an advent calendar wallhanging. I plan on making a table runner, some quilted coasters and more wallhangings for Christmas next year.
Thanks for the chance to win!!
Quilts are a wonderful way to decorate Christmas. I have one on the back of my couch, one on my dinning room table, one on my coffee table. How about using one for a tree skirt? I would love to win the books.
I have a Christmas quilt hanging in the living room, Christmas place mats and table runners.
I have a lovely quilted tree skirt, Christmas quilts on the sofa, Christmas wall hangings and table runners, and I’ve also used unfinished tops to wrap gifts for quilting friends.
Folk art make very pretty quilts love the books. Thanks for a chance to win.
I decorate with alot of quits around our house. I even have two in the bathroom. Wonderful books, hope I can win one. Thanks for the chance.
Carol L
I made Bonnie Hunter’s first online mystery “Carolina Crossroads” in reds and greens and it is one of my favorites.
When December rolled around I could finally hang up my red and white, green and muslin, and green and red quilts. Then out came the Santa quilt which I made for my mom years ago. I love changing the color scheme even for just a short while! Happy Holidays.
I usually hang my quilts out on a rack my husband handmade for me. There’s also one draped over the rocker in the living room. Each bed in the house has its own Christmas themed quilt, too.
Those are really great books.
I can’t answer question easily because I’ve only made one full size quilt and a table runner so far. I am planning to make some smaller quilts to hang in my hallway along with our family pictures. Also, I do want to have different seasonal lap quilts to put on the back of our couch in the living room. Those will be used as a dual purpose; one to brighten each new season and two, to cover my U.G.L.Y. couch. LOL (Long story but special ordered a couch after choosing the fabric. Chickened out on the bright purple fabric and went with Eggplant which looked more subdued. When it arrived this Eggplant looked BROWN! EWwww I should have sent it back but didn’t.) Now I hate seeing that thing and it’s a 7 foot long couch so I NEED quilts to cover it. LOTS OF QUILTS.
I have several Christmas table runners,some small quilts on the walls and a larger quilt on the back of the sofa.
HELLO! I USE CHRISTMAS QUILTS IN ALL THREE BEDROOMS+HANG QUILTED CHRISTMAS WALL HANGINGS ABOUT THE HOUSE INSTEAD OF PHOTOS,CLANEDARS,ART,ETC. ONE IS NICE FOR THE DINING TABLE AS WELL!
THANKS FOR SHARING!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I use a table runner and put a Christmas themed quilt on the bed. Keep it simple! Great books, thanks for the chance.
i love to use Christmas quilts as throws, wall hangings and table runners. the colors of Christmas always gives off the festive feeling of the season.
I don’t have special Christmas quilts yet as I’ve not been quilting long enough, but both my boys have a quilt I made them on their beds, plus we’ve got a lovely one on the couch and a small table runner on the coffee table too.
I love the cozy feel of a quilt at Christmas. thanks
I made a tree skirt many years ago. I also have a wreath that a coworker made for me because I would give her rides home. I have a couple of wall hangings that my mother made that I inherited when she past away twenty plus years ago this month.
I have a few Christmas quilts – one is our tree skirt and then I have a couple table runners. I have a couple of small ornaments that are quilts as well. Merry Christmas.
special quilts on beds and couch back, quilted tree skirt.
Enjoy seeing all the seasonal quilts and how others also display and use them.
Right after Christmas the decorations start coming out of storage and it takes days to transform our home for its Christmas festivities. My traditional and fall seasonal quilts come down from the walls off the beds, tables and other “resting” places. Each year it seems like I add at least one new quilt to the Christmas collect and it generally is one of my own designs. Some of the older ones get wrapped up and sent to friends and family to start new tradtions therre
Jo
When we were younger they were on the couch, bed, and even under the tree. Hubby and I lost our house in 2009 and all my mothers and grannys quilts. I do not know how to make them or where to buy them.
I was googling and thats how I found you! 
I use quilts on end tables as table toppers and I throw a big quilt as a tree skirt under the tree. I also have a wall hanging in the front door -facing out of the glass window-for all to see as they come in.
I hang Christmas wallhangings and use small quilts on tables…anywhere I can find a place for one!
I’m just a newbie so I haven’t yet made anything to decorate. But I’m working on it!
i just love all things christmas and want to make a christmas quilt . thanks
im just about to finish a baby christmas quilt for my son
I have made a quilted Christmas tree skirt, a Christmas throw, and table runner.
I am a fairly new quilter, but so far I have used qulits as wall-hangings and christmas pillows. I plan to do more wall hangings and a tablecloth and tablerunner next year
I don’t have any quilts that I use to decorate for Christmas, but I do have an appliques pillow I made this year! It has a tree branch with an ornament hanging from it on it. I hope to get a quilt made someday for Christmas, even have some blocks I won in a lottery that are green & red. Will have to pull them out to see if they can be put together quickly!
I do have a panel quilt with a Christmas tree and Scotties on it which is over the chair at my office, though! Does that count?
one of the things i do at christmas time is dressing my bed up with the christmas quilt i won from a raffle fundraiser so long ago. it’s just gorgeous, hand made, hand quilted, christmas star blocks! for awhile i used it all winter long, but now just christmas month to keep it nice.
I have quilts, large and small, hanging on my walls. Really warms the house up.
I love to decorate with quilts..I drape them on chairs..hang them from my quilt rack…and have lots of tabletoppers…even mug rugs. I always hate to put them away after the holiday..but then I dig out my snowmen:)
I have a quilt on my rocking chair , table runners a quilted tree skirt and a snowman quilt on the wall quilt rack. I change my quilts with the seasons as I love to decorate my home with them.
I have a log cabin Christmas quilt that I put on my dining room table. And I also have a quilt up on the wall in the hall. The blocks were made by myself and four friends and all the blocks have a Christmas theme.
I’m such a new quilter that I don’t have any Christmas quilts yet. But I’m working on it!
I have made different wallhangings over the years from small to larger and they hang in different areas of our living space. I love being able to visit them for 4-6 weeks every year and remember the fun it was to create them. Sometimes, I like the pattern so much, I make several and give the spares to children and grandchildren.
I cover my sofas and chairs with Christmas quilts and then change them for all the holidays. I make placemats and runners for the tables. My next project is some wall hangers although I do have quilts hanging in my bedroom.
I hang them over the fireplace, lay them out on tables & hang them over my banisters.
I had a little gathering yesterday, so I’ve been busy for the last week or so putting out all of my Christmas quilts, wallhangings, and table runners. I have an old farm ladder against the wall in the kitchen and many of my seasonal quilts hang there. Thanks for the great give away!!
I use quilts in my living area over a chair, over the back of the sofa, and on a quilt rack. Unfortunately, I’ve never made a CHRISTMAS quilt!!! i must remedy that for next year!
I use quilts in my living room and family room over my sofas and chairs. I also use them on the dining room table and in each of the bedrooms. This year, I made some table runners for my coffee tables and smaller quilts for my end tables. I also made a runner to put on my piano bench. I have one quilt to finish, and that will go on a wall leading down the stairs.
I use them for couch and wall decorations.
I use larger quilts on the couch, banisters and ladders. I love the warmth they bring to our home. I also make smaller wall quilts and mini quilts to hang on the walls. I use double sided rug tape to hang them, so they can go anywhere and be taken down without harming the quilts.
Debbie
I have table runners, a tree skirt and quilted pillows displayed.
My cousin and I are all about Christmastime and creating. She and my mother introduced me to quilting–and I am attached! My mother has been an avid quilter for years; the maternal and paternal women from both sides have always been hand and machine quilters. My mother always tried to get me involved w/her quilting pleasures. I was more interested in counted cross stitch. But this past year, I began experiment and and happy to say quilting is my new love. Thanks for offering your advice, projects to complete w/examples, and giveaways. Yours is a site I will frequent often!
I use quilts all through our long winters but have a few select ones I pull out and drape around the living room for the holidays.
By the way, I have made a primitive quilt for my bed and my cousin is going to quilt it on her machine quilter. I also made a mantel runner, christmas valances, a new quilted tree skirt, and a coffee table runner–all new quilt projects for me! It just makes me happy!
I love to givew Christmas Wallhangings as Christmas presents
I have several quilted Christmas wall hangings and just finished my first Christmas quilt. I’ll display it on the back of my favorite rocking chair.
I have a Christmas quilt on the bed, a lap Christmas quilt in the living room and various quilted holiday themed things used as decorations everywhere in the house.
Every year since little I have made one Xmas themed block to learn…this year I ended up with a wallhanging and quilt…the xmas block…the pineapple square in xmas colors…my quilt has mostly green, and the wallhanging mostly red…next year I’d like to try miniatures blocks for xmas….
My Christmas quilts have gone to decorate other people’s homes, not mine. I have one Christmas bed quilt in progress–it is aging until it is “time”.
I have quilts I hang and ones I put on beds and tables for Christmas. I am always attracted to Christmas patterns! I have made some for my daughters as well. They make the house look festive and warm!
I forgot to mention that I have several that I hang at church also.
I have quilted covers for my throw pillows on the couch, and made table topper for the table.
I haven’t used full-sized quilts to decorate (yet). I only have a quilted table runner hanging on my bedroom wall.
Since I make a Christmas Quilt each year, I have a pretty good stack. Always have one hanging on the wall in the family room, several on the backs of sofas and chairs and a big stack so the grandkids can grab one to wrap up in to watch movies and so on during the holidays. Also use lots of Christmas table toppers. One of my favorite memories is when one of my grandsons said ” I love being at Grandma’s on Christmas, you can just reach out anyplace and there is a quilt to keep you warm.”
I think quilts make a home feel so homey and are easily interchangeable. I love to be able to change up depending on my mood or the season.
Diane,
I was just looking at your two blocks that are above. The reason that the first block doesn’t work is contrast — not in colors, but in values. The gray, pink and blue are all medium values, instead of the three values Laurie and Polly used in their block. Your second block works because you have adjusted those values, an off-white background, a medium green, a dark medium red and black, and multivalue berries. Good job. And that is my two cents, and I’m sticking to it.
I love to decorate with quilts~ I hang them, fold them, and stick them in baskets. I put them on the table and backs of chairs. Its all fun! Thanks for the great giveaway! I just love books, not only for the patterns, but the inspiration!
I don’t have any Christmas quilts!
I have some Christmas lap quilts and am making wall hangings now. They make the house so festive looking.
I have just started quilting and have not made a Christmas quilt yet. But my List of Quilts to Do includes several Christmas quilts, runners and place mats. Christmas is such a special time of the year!!
I made Christmas table runners for my daughters, sisters and of course myself this year. I also have a holiday throw on the couch.
I have not actually decorated with quilts for Christmas before, but this post has inspired me to buy some fabric to make quilted placemats. I would love to win these interesting books, to get even more inspired.
I have a number of quilts that I hang around the house. I also put out a couple of table runners.
I don’t decorate too much with mine but I do have them on the back of my couch and I have two quilt racks that display them.