Merry Christmas and Happy Quilting

Here it is, almost Christmas and I have not been making quilty gifts. I realized a few years back that my family has just about everything they want, so I stopped.  It is kind of nice.  I now have quilting time for me in December.  I've been working on a couple of things.

The first thing is a red and green Christmas quilt.  I don't do Santas and Snowmen, but I do make red and green quilts, as you can see from the photo above.  This one is one that I started in 2008. It's the one on the bottom.  I am still quilting it, so the picture will follow when it is done, which I hope is next week.

The second thing is a red and green quilt.  Sometime this spring, I was on Pinterest and my DH saw a quilt that he really liked.  It was a Judy Neimeyer pattern, lots of paper pieced spikes and a lone star in the center.  I thought it was a good thing that he pointed this out to me, so I bought the pattern.  I also bought some fabric I thought he might like.  Unfortunately, after starting the center piece, I realized that I didn't like the fabric...so it sat for awhile.  Recently, I was telling someone how much I liked red and green quilts and it became obvious that I might actually finish this if I made it red and green.  I am just about to finish the center star and all of the paper pieced sections are pieced, so as soon as I get the center pieced, I will post a picture.

Last month I mentioned that I was waiting for a juried decision on my Goose Lake quilt.  Well, bummer, it didn't get in.  I will enter it somewhere else and see how it does.

Lastly, we revealed the completed raffle quilt for Sinnissippi Guild.  If you would like tickets, let me know.  It is an original design and was made with the help of 30+ guild members.

Here it is:

Whimsical Garden

So much for now.  Hopefully I will get a few things done before the end of the year.