Merry Christmas to all our readers! To celebrate the season, we're posting 12 of our favorite Christmas quilts from recent shows. We hope you enjoy the beautiful details expressed in these masterpieces!
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By the Chimney with Care by Karen Turnbull (California)
This delightful, original applique quilt is one of our all-time Christmas favorites. The creator and quilter, Karen Turnbull, says that her Norwegian heritage inspired her to create a Scandinavian [Christmas] scene. "I was inspired to make a fireplace scene to hang on my living room wall each Christmas, because my house doesn't have a real fireplace and mantel."
The technique is fused, raw-edge applique, using Pellon Wonder-Under, and sewn on a domestic Janome machine. Karen says, "I even taught myself to make Norwegian Hardanger lace to decorate the stockings and mantel." She also created the appearance of fireplace tiles, and quilted floral motifs within the "tiles", as shown below.
Each part of this quilt has something fun to see, including the pretty woven and embroidered ornaments on the tree!
Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2018 Road to California show.