It's the end of November,
and I no longer feel even the least bit funny about
stitching up something Christmas-y every month!
This month I finished a bigger project...
I used the awesome pattern by A Bright Corner on Etsy.
Here's Andy's pattern cover,
featuring a Christmas tree and everything.
{My tree is NOT up yet.}
For my version,
I used fabrics from Kate Spain's In From The Cold collection.
I chose 6 prints for the front of the tree skirt.
{Little Ginger photo-bombed me, under the table.}
At the end of the day,
I had my tree skirt top all pieced together.
Here it is, spray-basted and ready for quilting.
After another day,
I had the tree skirt all quilted,
and the binding was even finished.
On the back, and for the binding,
I used a red and white snowflake print
from the same fabric line.
{I'm so glad I have some yardage left over to make something for myself.}
I really love that cookie print,
reminding me of family cookies from Christmases past.
And these cocoa cups look like the ones my great-grandma
used in her restaurant...in my mind's eye, anyway.
{OK...her cups were solid white with green stripes,
but they were the same shape as these cups.}
The little label on the back will remind Val that I made this,
just for her.
It was easier than I expected to attach the binding
to all of the angles of the giant hexagon.
I chose to make ties from the binding fabric,
but you could use ribbon, too, as the pattern suggested.
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!
Stop by soon for a wrap-up of my
Christmas projects from 2013.
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