Finished Blitzen Basketcase Quilt

It only took three years. but this quilt is finally finished! You can check out finish #1 and finish #2 from this week too!

Click here for all of the posts on this project! This is my first and only Christmas quilt!

This quilt has been three years in the making and I finished the top over a year ago! This is the problem when your preferred long arm quilter is in Michigan!

The border has a leafy vine and the blocks have a scroll work pattern in each block! I am so happy with how this one turned out!

The border is one of the larger scale prints from the line and the backing is one of the green smaller scale prints.

I also used the backing fabric for the binding -- it gives a great green pop around the outside of the red border!

The fabric is Blitzen by Basic Grey and the pattern is Basketcase by Cluck, Cluck, Sew!

Lovely quilting!

Sharing over at Finish it up Friday!

Blitzen Basketcase Top Finished

My May ALYoF goal is done -- just under the wire!

My goal was to finish all of my Basketcase blocks and get them put together in a top and I got it done today!!

Here's the top all together before the borders:

This jelly roll was a birthday gift almost two years ago and I started this project about a year and a half ago (embarassing!) and I finally just put my butt in gear and finished it. My mom was able to find some yardage of one of the red prints for me to use for the border and I cut 6 inch strips for the border -- that way I'll still have enough of the yardage (I started with 2 yards) to use it for the binding too.

This is the FIRST Christmas quilt I've ever made! I'm very excited to start thinking about quilting possibilities and to start searching for backing fabric.

Linking up to the May ALYoF Finishes Party!

Basketcase Pattern via Cluck Cluck Sew

May ALYoF Goal

My goal for this month (after I get moved, of course!) is to finish all of my Basketcase blocks in Blitzen and put them into a top!

I have more than half of the blocks made so far and just need to finish about 16 more.

Linking up with Fiber of all Sorts and Sew Bittersweet Designs!

Don't forget to vote for block #6 in the Quilter's Choice Quilt Along!

Long lost WIP

Since I'm at an impasse with my Stash Bee Quilt (waiting for more backing fabric to arrive) and my Double Hourglass quilt (need to go shopping to find border fabric), I decided to pull out a WIP that I hadn't touched since JULY. Needless to say, I didn't get my ALYoF goal completed that month!

I now have 15 more blocks to go now!

When I had originally made the pairs of all of the jelly roll strips for the first half of the blocks (you get 2 blocks per strip) I intended to repair all of the blocks with another fabric to make all different blocks for the second set. Since I'm making a tiny effort to simplify my life, I decided to just make the blocks in pairs. 

Of course, now I realize that I will have two quilts that are plaid like in nature -- this one and my Stash Bee quilt -- but since this one is a Christmas quilt, I can be okay with it.

Linking up to Linky Tuesday, Fabric Tuesday, and WIP Wednesday!

Don't forget to go vote for the first block in our Quilter's Choice Quilt Along! Voting is open until March 3rd, and right now the Sister's Choice block is winning!

July Lovely Year of Finishes Goal

The theme for my goal this month is Christmas in July!!

I want to finish up all of the blocks for and put the top together of my Basketcase quilt that I am making with my Blitzen jelly roll.

Here are all the blocks that I have finished thus far:

I should end up with 46 blocks total and I plan to use 42 blocks on the front and put the last four on the backing.

Happy Independence Day to you!

Basketcases

I finally cut into my Blitzen jelly roll that I got for my birthday...last June!

I'm using Cluck Cluck Sew's Basket Case pattern and here are the first 10 blocks:

See that second one in the second row? It's put together wrong. Gotta fix that and then get started on this one:

Linking up with Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!