I finished quilting this Christmas tree skirt last night. I bought this charm pack called Winterland (I think) on clearance. I was trying to explain modern quilting to a sister-in-law, and I should've added that the color palette distinguishes modern from traditional. Instead of the usual hunter green and maroon red I've seen in winter sewing projects, I love the cherry red, aqua and cyan blue, and kelly green with touches of chartreuse in this color palette. I revisited Jenny Doan's tutorial, and if I'd had more time, I would have stenciled geometric trees in the white border and maybe a snowflake here and there in the charm squares. However I love the square spirals within the charm squares and straight lines in the border. I'm thinking of finding a coordinating blue fabric to make the binding, but since time is of the essence--I want to drape this around my Christmas tree for my Chinese dumpling making party this evening--I'm going to bind it in white, which is wintry and clean to me.
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