Quilt Finish: Granny's Christmas Quilt

My next quilt was one that came together with very little forethought or planning.  Something moved me to start playing with my 2 1/2" Christmas fabric squares as I was finishing up my latest Mega-block Patchwork Wreath quilt this year. (The wreath is a free pattern I designed that is available here.)  You can see the start of my latest scrappy quilt on the wall behind me in the above picture.

This idea originally started with the above sketch that I did in 2016.  As I started to lay squares out on my design wall, I didn't like all the negative space - I was going for something a little denser with this design.  So I took the center out-lined cross block and started to work with that (the 9 center squares). I love what I came up with!  Using low-volume fabrics as the outer ring on alternating blocks was a design decision based on the fact that I didn't have enough low-volume fabric for the entire background. 

This quilt is also distantly related to my red and white quilt - both of these quilts have the "on point" granny square blocks (confusing because normally it's the granny square blocks that are on point).  However, this one is made entirely of squares (no rectangles), so you can totally web-piece it.  I'm calling this one "Granny's Christmas Quilt and it is available as a free pattern if you subscribe to my newsletter.

This quilt is again backed with pistachio Minky and quilted with the "Midnight Sparkle" pantograph from Urban Elementz (like the last 3 or 4 quilts that I've had quilted). I'll add - YES - those sparkles or stars are part of the quilting design. I did not add those myself. (I've gotten that question a few times already!)

The fabric that I used to bind the quilt is a pink and white bias candy stripe from Bonnie & Camille.  Try finding it here.

Quick Quilt Stats:
This design is a free scrappy pattern for those who subscribe to my newsletter. My version is made mostly of scraps, though I did have to cut some white-on-white squares from stash to make the background.  This guy finishes 62" by 74" and makes a nice throw size. I do still use Warm & White batting when I back a quilt with Minky. That combination makes for a nice thick fuzzy warm winter quilt.

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Happy Holidays to Everyone!