Thursday, December 30, 2010

A Quilt for Christmas

This is what I spent every spare minute through the month of December doing -- which isn't many with all of the holiday trimming and celebrating that goes on in our house.  But, I did get it done in time.  My inspiration came from here.  I fell in love with this pattern and had to try it.  It was a lot of fun.
This is a gift for my favorite sister.  She's not a quilty person but I hope she'll like it and feel a part of me in it.

 I loved each square as I made it but as I put it together, I wasn't so sure. There seemed to be too many bright colors going on but when it was completely finished... I loved it again.  These are some of my favorites:
The one above and below are the same background fabric and I love how it worked so well with orange and teal.  They look totally different.
I quilted it myself on my regular old machine.  It isn't perfect but it looks good.
I really love the back too. I just used scraps from the front and splashed it across the back.
 No outside pictures with weather like that.


Merry Christmas, Sis!

3 comments:

Shannon said...

Wow, that turned out so great. Good for you!! I love it!

The Chapmans said...

Karyli,
It's around 1:40am and I crazy to be reading blogs, but I came across yours and was intrigued (sp? it's too late for me to think). Anyway, you're amazing--looks like lots of fun times are being had in the Peterson household; we were just talking about missing your clan the other day.
Alyssa

JK Services said...

What an amazing daughter I have!!!
Yip this is my daughter.