Having dilly-dallied a bit with this quilt I cracked on with it this week, this is the free QAL by the Fat Quarter Shop, it appealed (apart from the fact that I love Christmas!) because it took just one layer cake and some background fabric, I happened to have in my stash a Christmas layer cake which needed using! There’s a matching cross-stitch design too but I’ve resisted that one.

This is a row by row quilt, I’ve always fancied doing one of these and I’ve really enjoyed it, there’s not so many repeats of a block that you get bored and each row has been fairly quick to do. The first two rows which I shared a couple of weeks ago were holly with berries and Christmas stockings…

The third row was garlands of ribbons. This block took a fair bit of concentration as the main block was half of one bow and half of the next…

The final row was three Christmas trees, in theory this shouldn’t have been too taxing! I realised too late that the pattern on the lower tier of the middle tree was one directional…and therefore I needed to be careful which corners I stitched the triangles to…the seam ripper came out several times! Even after all that hassle I realised when I had stitched it all together that I had completely omitted two of the triangles!! Luckily its the middle tree and still looks fine, I bet you wouldn’t even notice if I didn’t say!

The bottom rows don’t show up as much as I would like but I’m planning to sort that with the quilting. Once the four rows were stitched I stitched a 2″ strip between each row and officially the top is now finished…

…but I’m thinking of adding a border as I’ve got quite a few layer cake sheets left. It’s 33.5″ square at the moment, so wall hanging size. Just got to quilt it then 🙂