Pin Wheel Quilt Top from a Charm Pack

I got a charm pack at the Quilt Congress in Fort Smith last year as a door prize.  I loved the colors and patterns and planned to make something out of it. It has music notes and a little bit of holly. But, it doesn’t scream, Christmas. I started cutting the squares into triangles and  sewed a few. When I was at Ferndale Lois helped me finish the blocks. I finally found the white fabric with a tiny black dot for the setting squares. Then I lost it in this mess. I looked for three days, gave up and started working on something else . Yesterday it showed up. It had fallen behind a stack of boxed fabric. I got all the blocks cut and laid out it out. It really took awhile to figure out how to cut the striped fabric so it looked like the center is sitting on the striped fabric. Yesterday I sewed the rows together and today  got the center done then the 3 border fabrics. As  say all the time: It takes longer to find/audition fabrics than to sewed the quilt up. That was the case with this quilt. I am blest to have so much fabric. The two printed border fabrics were in the studio, and the red-orange fabric was soe that was given to me by my friends in Tulsa. I like this quilt. It was fun to work on it and went together really well. I worked hard to finish it so I could go out for supper with Joan and Deanna. Got it finished and went outside and it was sleeting. Ran to the store for cigs and Diet Coke and back to blog. Guess I’ll start something else tonight. Stay warm!!

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