Trio of Christmas Trees Quilt

is DONE!... not just the top - I finished that yesterday.  Today, I decided that I would quilt it on my domestic.  There were some 'hiccups'

 I thought I would do some 'fancy' stitches... nope, that wasn't a good idea... had to rip them all out.

(backing fabric is really a dark green with the cute little snowmen.)

 Went with straight and curved stitching instead.

Then, I couldn't decide how to do the border... I already knew that big meandering or feathers wasn't going to work and I didn't want to do piano keys if it meant doing them 1/4" apart like I did around the trees.  I texted friend Katie for her opinion but she must have been busy because I didn't hear back right away and finally decided that I could just do piano keys but just between the 'boxes'...so they are 2 1/2" apart except at the corners because I also stitched along the seam lines where the side borders met the top and bottom borders.

Anyway, it's done and put away for a future Christmas gift (maybe).  And I've already started on the next project... this one isn't quite as old as some I have-- actually, MOST ... It's a quilt that Katie and I saw at a quilt show last Spring and I just fell in love with it.  Probably because it has newspaper print fabric for the background.  It's called Bird on a Wire by designer Wendy Williams and found in her book Wild Blooms and Colorful Creatures.

I'm not sure but what the flowers and birds were wool felt in the quilt we saw, but I don't normally do wool so it will be cotton for me - and mostly from my scraps.  I may go to the LQS to see if they have a different newspaper print than what I have.

Oh! and on a side note... I was searching all over the house for that piece of newspaper print fabric that I KNEW had been in my sewing room just the other day.  I FINALLY found it - I had put it on a fabric board and put it with some other 'bolts' in the fabric storage room... of course, I didn't see it right away because I forgot that I had put them over on the desktop and I was looking everywhere but there!... All of a sudden it dawned on me... and I went right over and picked it up.  Told hubby as I was walking out of the room that that's what happens when I take care of stuff - I forget where I put it!

Ok, Buddy will be whining any time now wanting us to go to bed.  

take care....

ttyl.......