It is the second Saturday in December, which means that the Christmas season is in full force in my little suburb within a suburb. Right now there is a constant drone of sirens as Santa rides around in a firetruck and hands out bulging bags of candy to kids. I love this tradition – so surreal and so blue collar and so kind. Just like my neighborhood.
It is full-on Christmas season in our house too. I finished my Tula Pink city {Christmas} sampler.
I loved loved loved making the blocks. I indulged and completely skipped the triangles section. So it was all lovely scraps and right angles. Fun.
I fell in love with the striped, nestled setting that is featured in one of the sampler quilts in the book. Ugh. I like the result, but no fun. So much strip sewing. And I am challenged by keeping long cuts accurate.
But I am glad I stuck with it one looooong Saturday afternoon. The stripes make it – and look at me sewing with solids!
The quilting is free motion (!) rectangles. Definitely far from perfect, but when the quilt was washed, the quilting provided a lot of lovely texture. So much fun to free motion quilt. I was sad when I was done. As compared to straight-line quilting when I think I am going to give up the whole hobby if I have to sew one more line.
The quilt is now ensconsed in our dinning room, the focus for 2-3 more weeks until it has to come down.
