A Few Days Off

I have four days off work this week with lots of plans to prep things ready for xmas and other swaps. Instead I find myself playing with a new pattern I bought recently when Shez and I went to The Christmas Beetle Xmas in July workshop. We had a few stops along the way, and one of our favorites (well they were all favorites) was Meg and Mog Patchwork.

I bought this lovely Crabapple Hill pattern "Deck the Halls". It involves a little coloring with crayons, which I havn't done before. I'm sure it can't be any harder than kindergarten lol.  So yesterday I  cut out and traced the top and bottom border - sorry hard to see in the photo, but it says "Deck the Halls with boughs of holly, etc" and is a mere 64" long.  The fabric I bought, of course, wasn't wide enough, so as I didn't want a join in the middle I ended up with a creamy patterned quilt back.  I'll show you more when I get started.

I did buy a couple of other lovely patterns from Meg and Mog -

This one is a Birdbrain Designs pattern and of course being snowmen I couldn't leave it there. The pattern is for 12 xmas decorations, but there is a free pattern to download if I decided to make it into a quilt instead.

Bit of a xmas theme happening here (as usual), but couldn't resist this one either. I'll show you my fabric purchases another time. Cheryl