It would have been closer to finish but I decided at almost the last moment to make a quilt for one of my nephews who is joining my son and I for dinner on Christmas day. I had thought that I would gift him one of my recently finished quilts but they are both gnome themed quilts and I don't consider them very masculine. Then I remembered that I had purchased two panels with a red truck on them last year and only quilted one for my annual Christmas quilt. I already had flannel piece for the backing but because I wanted to make the quilt a little bigger, I dug out the leftovers from the aforementioned gnome quilts and was able to add them to both the panel and backing fabrics.
The quilt was loaded onto Mo'e last night after I finished and removed the quilt that was already on 'him'. It won't take long to quilt it since I'm going to do a largish meander.
This was a block of the month from Sindy Rodenmeyer of fatcatdesigns.com called 'The Birbs'. I wasn't going to do any block of the months other than the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2022 because I've been trying to use what fabrics and patterns I have here in my stash, but I was able to use just fabrics from my stash including the background, sashing, borders and backing after all.
The other quilt that is waiting it's turn to be quilted after being bumped back by nephew's quilt was one I shared in my last post ( that wasn't quite finished).
It's finished now and will be quilted on my domestic machine. Not what I would call my 'usual' but I like it and I really enjoyed doing it.
This next year I plan to stick more to my resolution to use up more of what I already have and to STOP buying patterns and STOP printing out patterns that I'll probably never use. Just because it's FREE doesn't mean that I NEED it. And BEFORE I start something new, I'm going to FINISH one of the tops that have been waiting to be quilted.
And on that note, I think I'm going to say so long for now...
Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays
Stay warm and safe
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