This started when I found a strip of Christmas designs in my stash. I don't remember buying them but possiby I was thinking about using them for cardmaking.. They are black and white overprinted with gold. Here I have added gold printed fabric borders to make the squares 5" x 5". The plan was to incorporate them into a big tablecloth. I chose black white and gold to echo the little pictures plus a lot of reds to make it more Christmassy.
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One Christmas print incorporated into a churn-dash block, and a star block to match. The sub-blocks all measure 5" x 5", so a full block is 15" x 15" finished. There are about a dozen different reds, about a dozen dark black/white prints about a dozen light, white or white with black, and at least eight golds, mostly over printed with metallic gold. For any eagle eyes out there - the star block used for the close up has one of the sub-blocks the wrong way around, but fortunately I did manage to spot it just in time. Easily dealt with when it's just patchwork, but once the quilting is done...... |
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This is the tablecloth top. It is big enough to easily cover my dining table when fully extended, so doesn't need any additional borders.
The whole thing is nominally 115" x 55" so I will probably just quilt it and add a red binding.