a quilt for Christmas gift swap

On my dad's side of the family, we swap gifts on Christmas Eve, and last year, I decided to take a quilt. This year, I made another quilt to bring, though this one I ended up finishing just in the nick of time, rather than in September. Thanks to my mom for the sewing machine loaner.



The pattern is just quarter-square triangles set on the bias. The color scheme is inspired by the main backing fabric, a print from the Petit Village collection from Timeless Treasures that I featured in a previous post. The other print is from the Farmdale collection from Alexander Henry.



I had bought some Kona cotton for the front in a champagne color, but it read too yellow, so I ended up buying some ivory Kona cotton last minute at JoAnn Fabrics instead. A khaki might have been better but this works well enough. Quilted it in horizontal-ish rows.

cookie post

So I haven't posted yet this month, having never gotten around to putting up any pictures of the batches of cookies I have made over the last weeks (chocolate-mint, chocolate-peanut butter, oatmeal-dried fruit, chocolate-toffee, and raspberry jam thumbprints).

I do have a picture at least of the cookies I made this morning: peanut butter blossoms. The recipe (or something pretty close to it) can be found here.



Tasty!