The first Christmas quilt...About 1980 Christmas fabrics were beginning to hit the stores in a big way. There were no quilts shops within 60 miles of where I lived in rural WI, but there were Ben Franklin Dime Store, and they carried a lot of fabric. Most of these fabrics are Ben Franklin, and mostly VIP fabric. They've held up well for the 25 years since I made the quilt. This quilts "claim to fame" is that I made it for our dining room table. We had a trestle table with the benches at that time..so the quilt is 52" X 94". And fool that I am, I hand quilted all of it..cross hatched. Took awhile trust me on that one..*G*
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I love it and I bet it was the perfect table quilt! I could look and drool over your quilt pictures all day.Do you ever sit and not quilt?
Oh my gosh, Finn.
I have no idea how you hand quilted something that big. I think the King Size one I did is the biggest I'll ever do. Did you have a frame or did you do what I do and sit buried under a pile of quilt? LOL.
Beautiful work.
Aloha,
Darilyn
Comment part 2.
I just realized the wholecloth quilt I'm going to do is going to be 108" by 108" inches or a little more.
I hadn't figured out the size really until now. Isn't denial a great thing?
Laughing and crying on Maui.
Darilyn
Wow, I recognize some of those early 80s fabric from some projects I made before I started quilting. I sewed those stuffed Christmas trees and a few other things with them. One came back to me after my grandmother died...I used it every year until last year when a mouse decided to make it into a home in the attic. Thanks for the memories...what a wonderful quilt!
I loved to shop ben franklin. And I always haunted the sale tables. I learned to quilt with VIP fabrics, and none of them have disintigrated so far! I love that lime green santa! reminds me I needed to find that quilt with the pigs in santa suits for you... :c)
Bonnie
Do you still have that long table or where does this beauty live now during the holidays? You did a great job with it. And all that handquilting - what we do for love.
Its a beauty and so cheerful...I like red and green together.
It's a keeper for sure! I love how happy it is. And ((GASP!)) you put FOOD on it at the table?
Love the Christmas quilt. Wal-Mart is all out of Christmas fabrics already, but will try to remember to get some next year when they first come out, so I can make a Christmas quilt! Thanks for all your pictures and inspiration.
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