Hello November!

November means a lot of things at our house!  We have birthday's, the thanksgiving holiday and this ...

It's time for my sister and I to start our fall/winter quilting project! 

This year we chose a pattern from Lori Holt's Vintage Christmas quilt book and today we're tackling our first 'assignment.'

I look over the project as a whole ahead of time and break assignments down into small doable steps.  When we finish each step (we wait until both of us have finished each step before moving on to the next), I send her the next step and so on until we finish the quilt top, then we start the quilting phase.  Both she and I hand quilt our quilts.

Did I mention that we do this project together while living 12 hours away from each other.  We text, video chat, message each other, share pictures, giggle and laugh and just have a whole bunch of fun.  We've even been known to hold a project up so that one could mail the other a piece of fabric that she just loved or wanted in her quilt.  I have looked forward to our second annual quilt-along since we finished last years!

Here's part of assignment #1 that I've completed ...  can you tell what we're making?

 

As far as I'm concerned, the holiday season (Thanksgiving and Christmas) begins today!  A little at a time and bit by bit I'll start bringing out decorations for both holidays blending them together to make our home a right jolly place of thanksgiving this holiday season!

Happy November everyone!

Until next time, 

patsi      

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