Friday, November 20, 2015

Deck-ade The Halls Quilt

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This is Megan’s Deck-ade the Halls quilt which was a Jolly Jabber Quilt Along in 2013 and it looks like the pattern is still available for free here.  This is an adorable pattern using the Aspen Frost fabric collection.  Megan asked for denser custom quilting so we decided on the pebbles with the odd swirl for the background.  Since the border fabric as a distinct pattern we went with a bead-board design in the outer border.  I stitched in the ditch around all the images and added details like feathers in the wreaths and stockings.

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The batting is Quilters Dream Blend and the thread is white So Fine on the top and white Bottom Line on the back.

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As you can see winter is here, it arrived quite quickly and with vengeance as we went so long this fall without snow.   The lake is trying to form ice but the wind has prevented that from happening.  Now that it has calming down I expect the lake to be frozen over tomorrow morning.

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  I measured 10 inches with handy dandy snow measuring tool, but it was so windy it drifted and some areas are knee deep, I’m sure we had more than that fall.

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15 comments:

  1. This is a gorgeous quilt. I love the quilting you did on it!!

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  2. Love the quilting...that's a lot of pebbles! Thanks for the link to the pattern. Bev

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  3. Oh your snow!!! We still have bare ground here and it can stay that way for a while still!! Great quilt, Kathy!!

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  4. That is awesome quilting as usual Kathy!. I would sell my soul to have your view (snow and all) ..Val

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  5. Love it and the quilting........and, oh yeah......the snow is perfect (for the quilt setting!!! ). Our snow has finally started but probably won't amount to anything like your photos

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  6. Well, no hope of using my 12 inch square for snow depth here!!! Handy -dandy is so right. Love the quilt, the fabrics and your finishing stitching touches.

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  7. Gorgeous!!! I can't imagine doing one string of pebbles...you have s whole quilt!

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  8. Beautiful job of quilting, thank you for the link to the pattern.

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  9. Wow, that is a lot of pebbles! Gorgeous picture of the lake, love to see more. The snow is just beautiful, but I'm glad you have it and not me, LOL! As much as I love a snow day, I don't want one this early.

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  10. nice quilting and welcome to canadian winter

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  11. This turned out to be so pretty. It looks great against the snow. But you can keep it there please. Don't send it down here.

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  12. I love how the pebbles look like snow, I recognised the pattern from the Fat Quarter Shop but I had never seen one finished, really great.

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