Have Yourself a Quilty Little Christmas quilt, finished!

Lori Holt is an awesome designer!

Her first quilt book is called Quilty Fun and it's absolutely fabulous!

I completed Lori's row along, and finished a beautiful quilt that I gave to one of my granddaughters for her bed.

After the row along, Lori surprised her followers (me) with a Christmas sew along called "Have Yourself a Quilty Little Christmas."

Lori hosted the sew along on Instagram!

Most of the blocks were from her book, but she surprised us by throwing some oh so cute! Christmas blocks into the mix.

You can read about my little Christmas quilt journey, here, here, and here.

I said I would get my adorable little quilt quilted in a couple of months, but it's been almost a year later and I finally finished it!!!!

I got busy making heirloom blessing gowns, quilty fun birthday

banners, and the business and joy of everyday life.

I have always wanted a Christmas quilt and couldn't be happier with this one :)

My friend Cindy Paulson quilted it, she's so talented.

Do you see the holly berries and leaves she quilted free hand?

I love the back, it's so perfectly vintage :)

Thank you Michael Miller for creating such adorable Christmas fabric!

See my little snowman label?

I really want to make a snowman table topper or table runner someday.

Here he is a closeup before I sewed his buttons on :)

I know you'll want to make a darling Christmas quilt of your own after you catch the excitement of how much fun I had making mine!

You can go to Lori's instagram account and copy the tutorial if you're interested.

Thanks for reading my blog post and looking at all the photos!

Have yourself a Quilty little Christmas, Quilty Fun!!!

I finished my quilt top and I love it!!!

It's Lori Holt's #haveyourselfaquiltylittlechristmas quilt along, which she posted on Instagram, tutorials and all and it's free!

You have to buy her book "Quilty Fun" to have the complete cutting instructions for some of the blocks, but that book is worth every penny and more!

You can also find it at Joann's, use a coupon, and save lots of money :)

I made the pieced four patch border and there was lots and lots and lots of cutting involved.

These bright colors make me so happy!

Here's the border assembly line.

Let me just say that it's time consuming but well worth it, for a cute scrappy look.

Ta da!!!

My finished quilt top is really Christmasy and colorful :)

Lori also created Mr. Snowman who will be sewn onto the back as a quilt label.

He's so cute that Lori is making a mini quilt, using nine little Mr. Snowmen and Snow women.

I really want to make one, but it's time to finish my Christmas preparations.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing the progress of my quilt, I'll show you the quilted version in a month or two.

Have Yourself a Quilty Little Christmas

Hi Everyone!

I intended to have this quilty fun Christmas quilt finished by tonight, but I watched Christmas movies on TV with my family, instead.

Have you seen "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever?"

It's hilarious in an extremely corny sort of way!!!

Just in case you haven't heard of this quilt, you can read my previous post about it here.

Here's a cute courthouse steps block.

I sewed some of the blocks together and like how the low volume backgrounds are blending together.

Here's my stocking block, Lori threw it in as a bonus block!

Here's my entire quilt, without the border.

I never showed you the wreath blocks, aren't they adorable?
They're bonus blocks too!

I was a little worried about my bright backgrounds mixing with the low volumes, but I think it turned out well :)

I'm currently working on my pieced 4 patch border, but it's going to be a while....

These are all the pieces that need to be sewn, cut, pressed and sewn  together again, you get the idea!
The border and finished dimensions of the quilt will be the same as Lori's Apple-Icious quilt.

Have Yourself a Quilty Little Christmas

My friend Lori Holt from bee in my bonnet, is doing a quilt along.

It's not on her blog though, it's on Instagram.

Her name is beelori1 and it is so much fun trying to keep up with her and seeing all the blocks everyone else makes.

Lori told us that the blocks would be from her book Quilty Fun, and to pull some quilty Christmas fabrics for the QAL.

Our first block was a little cottage, a lot of people made gingerbread houses.

Then we made a cocoa mug.

Lori surprised us by adding a block that wasn't in her book, a cute little Christmas tree.

Here are all of my blocks, including some pretty fabrics that I love.

I made some white fluffy Santa mitts.

I'm being a little daring, choosing such bright colors for the background.  

We have no idea what order the blocks will be sewn, or what the finished size will be :)

Lori gave us a little gingerbread man who wasn't in the book!

He should have 3 little buttons down his front but I haven't sewn them on yet.

Here's what I have so far, I think the colors go together pretty well.

5 Christmas lights, they were fall leaves in the book :)

We added a candy cane stick to stir our hot chocolate.

Block 7 is a Christmas candle to put in our window.

Block 8 is a Christmas star, to represent the star of Bethlehem and the birth of our Savior and Redeemer.

Block 9 is a cute vintagey ornament which isn't in the book either.

I was referring to Lori's profile so many times to see what the measurements were for each block.

I decided to keep a journal of all the blocks and the cutting directions.

I will probably want to make another quilty Christmas quilt and would like to have the directions in one place.

I recorded everything in my "Happy Day" journal.

Block 10 is a sewing basket that represents all the giving that we do at Christmas.

Lori told us the order to sew these blocks together.

I think the color blocking works, thank goodness!

I forgot to take a photo of Block 11, a Christmas present, in the lower left corner.

Block 12 is spools of thread or ribbon.

Here are all the blocks I've made for this little QAL.

I made a new star, because I didn't think the colors in the previous one matched the rest of the colors in my quilt.

I have no idea how many more blocks there are, but I hope you join, it is like being with your best friends in your own sewing room :)

If you join, follow me, my name is Dream Quilt Create.