A Christmas Quilt

I think I’m making it for a dresser scarf.

We replaced the front door a month or so ago. The door that was on when we moved here had two windows way up at the top, too high to look through (unless you are very tall). I wanted something so I could see who was there before opening the door. The new one is a series of small windows, top to bottom.

But then, people can see in too. The solution? Make a curtain for it. I made one with fall-ish fabrics.

I realized that the outside of it would show, so I dug through the tote and found a wildlife print that was long enough to use for the back (no picture of that though). I pieced another in Christmas fabrics and this one I quilted, so it won’t gather like a curtain. I have to put the backing on it yet.

I used leftover cardinal and poinsettia fabrics with the gold metallic accents. I have LOTS of those scraps,

so I was thinking I should use up the scraps by making sort of crazy quilt blocks, with a black between each random scrap of fabric.

I’ve just spent the last hour sorting through those scraps. I don’t remember what I made, but I have long, skinny, triangular shaped holes. I had fussy cut some of the fabric for a wallhanging several years ago. So, lots of odd shapes held together with sometimes very little connecting pieces. I have trimmed them up, sorted into a pile of really small pieces, a pile of bigger pieces, and actually some good sized pieces.

I found some leftover black batik I will use to separate each scrap, but I also need to go through another bag or two to get a variety of scraps. There are some of the metallic poinsettia fabric, and a lighter toned ornament fabric with the gold metallic accents. And lots more bits and pieces that I think I can add in.

Now back to pressing, trimming and sorting.