I’m going to have to start making a date with my camera. Daylight hours only. I took this set around 4:15 today. I’m still getting used to being up here in the corner.
As you can see, I’ve been working slow and steady like the tortoise. Too much life going on to just finish the darn thing off.
I pinned my layers like a normal quilt. I did the quilting free-style. No specific plan before I started. I first drew two lines using the sides of the tree as my angle. I drew the line from the top edge to the side edges, lines intersecting at the top of the tree. From there I did 2″ parallell lines out to my edges using my handy dandy quilting bar.
At this point I quilted the tree. The evergreen first. Free motion. Loved the texture that resulted with the Dupioni Silk. It has a wonderful feel to the hand. I’m filing that idea.
I looked out my window and proceeded to quilt the trunk. When Greg saw this he said it looked like a Douglas Fir. Mission accomplished.
Back to finishing off the background. I like the one inch cross hatch and LOVED the two inch. Twice as fast, tee hee. I used my two initial lines as the boundry for the cross-hatch pattern. I then did 2 inch up and down lines on the lower half. Visually, it seemed to echo the shape of the tree. All of the back ground was done with my walking foot.
Finally, I arranged the pockets, clicked some digital pics to confirm my layout and sewed them on.
to be continued (and hopefully completed before December 25th!)…
Oh, I really like this. The quilting on the tree is perfect. I love the pockets that look like presents underneath. This is fun, watching it all in progress!
That is coming out just beautifully. I love the quilting, and all the different fabrics you used for the pockets/presents!
Everything looks wonderful! Love the quilting on the tree + trunk!
Kathy it is turning out soo beautiful. You must be so proud of yourself !! Clarice
It is looking fantastic! The quilting is perfect.
The quilting looks fabulous – I can’t wait to see the finished product!
This is absolutely beautiful!
Good idea !!! I like !!!
This looks so fab. I wish my quilting was as neat as yours. I think I may try to make an advent calendar simililar to yours but smaller. Thanks for the inspiration.
I love love love the quilting on the tree, it looks great.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! Quilting is wonderful. You have inspired me to want to make an advent calendar. Thanks for sharing the process. I’m less initmidated.
the quilting on the tree is so bautiful. And the first thing I noticed was the mimicked tree pattern. I really like it.
beautiful! there´s nothing to add!
This is coming along so nicely. And thanks for sharing the whole process.
That’s one beautiful advent calendar. I especially love the different textures you gave the tree and the background!
Mmmm. The free-motion quilting on the tree is perfect!
wow. that’s gorgeous!! i love the textures you’ve accomplished with the quilting. I never know what to do with quilting. Seeing this is so very inspiring!!
It’s really splendid! I’ll be thinking about this for next Advent…
This is so very, very cool! The quilting on the tree and the trunk are truly inspired.
It’s beautiful, Kathy! Your quilting on the tree is wonderful!
Ah, I see where this is going now! Very nice! The quilting on the tree trunk is my favorite part.
The quilting was definitely worth the wait…but I could see how great it was going to be from the peek at the back! Can’t wait to see what finds it’s way into the pockets!
All I can say is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
Oh, man. Man-oh-man-oh. That’s going to be one rocking crazy awesome advent calendar. And it brings SO MUCH joy to my heart that it’s like MINE, that it’s little things to pull out and hang on the tree! Until this sting of posts, I don’t think I knew of anyone else having an advent calendar that wasn’t just treats or pictures.
Its WONDERFUL. I love it, very clever, love the fabrics etc. Really great.
I have loved watching the progress and love the almost finished project. I have just started to free motion quilt and I love doing it.
what can i say? it is incredible!
just wonderful — really, really lovely!
Just surfed over from Ashley’s blog…
Wow. There are no words – gorgeous, inspiring. I have yet to delve into the quilting world (a plan for 2007).
this is wonderfull, I really like this one, have to send the link to mom!
Kathy! Its beautiful. What a beautiful memory you are creating for you family!
I am amazed at how gorgeous this is. I absolutely love it!
How can it be so beautiful?!!!
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