A Year of Christmas – August

At the July CUAQ Therapy session at Cut Up and Quilt, my favorite local quilt shop, Kim challenged us to make a quilt top from Moda’s So Simple pattern. The pattern was designed for Moda’s Bella solids and really shines with those solids! We were allowed to use fabrics of our own choosing and I decided to double-duty this pattern by making it my August selection for A Year of Christmas.

With each of these Christmas quilts, I have challenged myself to do something different with the quilting. Since I really dislike using templates to mark quilts, I decided to try free motioning poinsettias onto the quilt. The first few were a tad mutant in nature, but after the 56th try I had it down…ha!