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I finally finished the binding on the Holly Berries quilt and went over it with a narrowed eye and a lint brush. It’s done but for a label. Hurray!

I designed this quilt in EQ a long time ago, and it feels so good to see it in the fabric, as it were. If you want to read about the process of making it (starting at the beginning of August) just click on the "holly berries" tag. This is also the first quilt that I've developed a pattern for, since another quilter asked me where the pattern was available. It's been quite an experience! As always, click the photo to go to my Flickr account and see it slightly larger, if you like.

There was a little extra push on getting this quilt done, so that I could enter it in the 2012 Christmas Quilt Show at Quilting Tutorials. Click on over and take a look at all the gorgeous quilts in the show!

This was a week of wrestling with everything. I wrestled with getting a good photo of the Christmas Village quilt, finished last week. After three tries, finally produced a picture I’m happy to share. I’m really pleased with how this quilt turned out, especially since so much of the center panel was done flying by the seat of my pants.
( Other quilty wrestling matches... )

Candy Dish is complete and lint-brushed and folded, ready to go off to the long-arm quilter. The backing needs to be bought and assembled (I checked my stash and there's nothing that will quite do.)

Next Quilt (Holly Berries) is on the design chair. That angel fabric (which has been in my stash for years , waiting for the right quilt) will be the focus fabric, and go where the gold is in the EQ pattern, the cream will be background for half the blocks (stash fabric and I have about half of what's needed for the whole thing.) It'll be fine; a closely matching cream fabric will actually add interest. And I'll be able to use the deep red which was background for Candy Dish as "berries" in this quilt. Which means that most likely if I actually get to do the last of the Christmas quilts, it'll be a point to find a fabric from this quilt which can be used in that one, so they make a series and a set.

Here's the finished top, held by willing helpers on a fairly windy day.

Check out what everyone else is up to this fine summer day at Judy Laquidara's Design Wall Monday!

candydish top

This week I started a little early to keep my 2012 resolution to have something to report at least 40 weeks out of the 52 for Design Wall Mondays. I think I say this every time I post but I am so grateful to Judy L for starting these link days; it helps so much to push a little and get stuff done so I can write it up for Mondays.

( A little applique, a finished quilt, and a pattern to design from... )

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