The Gift - Updated!

 Dear Readers,

I finished a Christmas quilt this week.  I know, I know I am a couple of weeks late, but it is the first finish of 2024 and that is somewhat appropriate.  Will helped come up with the name and scripture, and while I suggested we look in Luke or Isaiah for a verse, he came up with this verse in James and I really like it.  Will found James 1:17 - Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

The pattern is by Sew Kind of Wonderful, called Starry Night, and requires that you buy their ruler.    I did a block of the month from Stitchin' Heaven.  While I enjoyed the process, I wish I had just bought the book and the ruler.  I like picking my own fabrics a lot!  The block of the month program does keep you on track to finish timely, and if I hadn't let indecision and life in general get ahead of me, I would have finished before Christmas.  

I custom quilted this and changed colors a lot, so I have included close ups of each of the elements of the quilt.  

Stitchin' Heaven sends a backing fabric to use, but it was a tone on tone red and I wanted something different.  So I put that away to use on another quilt.  Finally I found this neat print of Bethlehem and put it on the back, but I made a cutting error so I had to figure out how to make it work, so I put a star in the middle.  Thank you Stitchin' Heaven for a fun quilt.

And finally the label.

PS

I entered the quilt in the Pieces and Strings Quilt Show and it won 1st place in the modern quilt category and a judges choice ribbon.  I was so excited I decided to enter it into the Plano Quilt Show in August.  Here is a copy of the award and the judges comments.  I will sew the ribbons on the back after the Plano show.  Hopefully, I will have another update!!

                                             

Sew on readers,

Terry