Thursday, October 6, 2011

Texas Country Christmas Quilt


I entered this quilt in our county fair.  It won a blue ribbon. Bill was at the fair this morning with his class.  He sent me a text saying it won and I asked him if it was the only quilt entered in its category.  LOL  While there were only a few quilts entered, the blue ribbon was exciting.  Mark one more thing off my bucket list!  Now I'm motivated to get some more projects done and I'll have a fun quilt for my bed at Christmas. It is a king size quilt and I'll post a picture of the whole quilt when I get it back home. The pattern was adapted from Carolina Christmas by Bonnie Hunter, http://www.quiltville.com/ . I finished it back in late winter except for the binding which I finished a few hours before checking it in at the fair.  Nothing like a deadline to get me to finish something.
A funny sideline was that Emma and I were looking at it tonight and lifting up the corner for the picture. A volunteer came to ask me not to touch it when she realized it was my quilt.  I've always wanted to touch a quilt at a show (the rebel in me).  Another thing checked off the list!

5 comments:

  1. Your quilt is beautiful and it deserves the blue ribbon; good job!

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  2. Congratulations! Your quilt is beautiful. I'm trying to finish mine. All I have left is the borders. I'm going to put plain borders on it, not scrappy.

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  3. I love it, it's lovely. I need to finish mine, I also did the sashing and yours inspires me.

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  4. Congrats! My CC is at the quilters right now.

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  5. Congratulations -- I really like how you set it. Hum, does this mean I might get mine out and work on it for a while... hard to say but thanks for the inspiration.

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