Is it crazy that I started working on presents for Christmas 2011? We are leaving Germany next year. So this Christmas will be our last one to celebrate with my family for a while. I was thinking about how to show them that I love them and leave them with something from me that shows them how much I love them. It needs to be something that makes them feel comforted, special and reflects their personality. The only thing that comes to mind that would fulfill all those criterias is a quilt.
I would like to make one for each one of them – about 8 total! I don’t know if this will actually work but I figure if I start now I might have a decent chance of making this happen! So, the first quilt is for my little sister.
I came across this line of fabric called Buttercup by Fig Tree & Co. The colors are so soft and gentle. I knew right away that this fabric would be perfect for S’s quilt. But I can’t just order fabric when I don’t even know which quilt pattern to use. Not being able to decide on a few fabrics is even a bigger problem. So a charm pack it should be! A Charm pack gives me 5” squares of each fabric which means that I can play around with it and I don't have to make a decision on which fabric would be best. I ordered three packs today!
And I solved my dilemma of which quilt pattern to use too... The more I looked at the fabric the more I realized I wanted something simple to show of the pretty fabric. Here is a rough drawing of what I came up with.
The drawing is not to scale or in proportion. It’s just to remind me what I am kind of planning on. I still need to decide on the two border fabrics. But that will have to wait until those charm packs are in…
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Me
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