Christmas Quilts

I've only made two Christmas quilts so far.  This one is a retro Santa quilt.  The pattern is Voila! by Swirly Girls Design.
This was a super simple pattern to do and went together quickly.  I made this about a year and a half after I started quilting.

I hope you can see the Christmas trees in the quilting.

My other Christmas quilt was made of a Crazy Eight jelly roll that I won.  I bought more of the line after Christmas when it was on sale.  I'm still using pieces of it in my scrap quilts.  I had to make this quilt long and narrow to suit my husband.  He complains if his nap quilt isn't long enough to wrap around his feet and still come up to his neck.

I've done a lot more Christmas cross stitching than quilting.  Here are our stockings:

We bought kits for our stockings right after we were married in September, 30 years ago.  I told my husband there was no way I could get them both done for Christmas that year, so he stitched his own!  His mom was a cross stitcher, so he knew the drill.  His stitches are as neat as mine.

This is my first son's stocking.  It  had lots of confetti stitching and was quite a challenge for me to stitch.  I think it is a beautiful scene, but  he always wanted one like ours with teddy bears.

This is our second son's stocking.  It reminds me of a Dickens novel.

The Believe stocking is our third son's.  It took forever to do all that solid stitching, and it wasn't done until his third Christmas. 

My MIL stitched us a tree skirt several years ago.  Until we got our beagle, we actually used it.  I am afraid the dog will chew on it, though, so I haven't used it in 5 years.

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