Getting the Christmas Quilt Ready

I really do not think I will get my Christmas quilt quilted for this season – it is November already! I’m not even going to try because I do not sit at my quilting frame for hours and hours a day.  Especially with my neck issues.  This quilt will most likely take close to 75 to 100 hours to quilt – I am not fast – but steady!  It will decorate the room while I am working on it this year and it will be out next holiday!

Batting and backing ready to go last night.

The quilting lines are in place and I got the top on the frame earlier today. Don't look at the mess under my frame

A close up

The supplies. The thread is King Tut variegated. I plan on using the red thread for most of it and possibly the yellow thread on the red sashing just because. I will try it out on a short piece, stand back and see if I like it and if I don't I will pick it out and use just the red. These are all the supplies I will need. I use Roxanne Between Needles size 11, my little scissors, thread, a needle threader if needed, a little rubber needle grabber and my paddle thimble.

Last night and this morning I continued to work on the Dear Jane “Insanity” binding and it is coming along nicely, I have about 1 1/3 sides stitched (the back still needs to be hand stitched of course – first to the top).

It was so nice outside that I had to put the quilting aside after lunch and go outside for a bit to accomplish cleaning off the porch – I had tossed all of the painting supplies on the porch after I got done with the kitchen and was slow to put things back in the workshop!  Just about all has been put away.  I will have to wait until after Thanksgiving to paint the bathroom and wait for my neck to heal before I tackle more painting.  All week we have continued to have sunshine and mild temperatures – it looks like – if the beginning of November is an example anyhow – that we will have a nice month!!  We need it.

I will take photo’s now and then of the Christmas Quilt and what it looks like as I get busy with it and post now and then.  I do want to start one more of the Baltimore Bliss blocks but I want to get the binding done on Dear Jane first so it will sit for a week or so before I decide what pattern to do next.  Whichever one I choose it will be the last to go into this first quilt using these blocks.  It will be little girl sized!  I have no idea how I will put it together, but I think the blocks will be set on point and sashing in between – but I do not know what fabric to use I will need to look through things.