My Christmas Quilt Show Entry - Design Board Monday

 

A Paddington Bear Christmas

For Tessa

2000

45" by 45"

Commercial Fabric/Machine Pieced & Quilted

Every once in a while, I don't think its a bad idea to remember where we came from.  I made this ten years ago as a quickie wall hanging for Christmas.  Tessa was only turning 3 and it was appropriate at the time. . . well I guess  Paddington Bear is appropriate anytime isn't he??  I remember I got the fabric on Ebay and it was from the now defunct Rose & Hubble.  I loved that company!!

Usually I try to learn and practice something with every project.  With this one I was machine quilting with a lot of shiny metallic threads including Superior Threads Glitter Hallogram which is a flat thread.  I found out that I couldn't free motion with it but it would make this funky stitch with it so I used it that way.  I didn't enjoy all of that fussing though so I never really used it again.

Anyways, since the Christmas show is so early, I'm not quite done with my new Christmas Wallhanging so I'm sharing this one for the show.  I promise to have the piecing/designing stage on the new one done by next Monday!!

You can enter this show at SewCalGal's site (its running through the week) and find more inspirational Design Walls at Judy's Patchwork.