Tuesday, December 23, 2025

It's in the Details

The design for the Christmas Macnas Quilt is very predictable and basic, but that doesn't have to mean boring. I have done some things to make it a little bit special. To wit: 

Notice how the evergreen trees all point UP, the arches on the red blocks point UP, at the cats with the little red caps are also right side up.


The letters in the light fabric are all right side up...

And all the cars going "over the river and through the woods" are facing in the same direction. This isn't a big deal, but your eye notices these subtleties. 

Of course, you don't want to do this. (Sigh.)



Here, the top eight rows are all pieced together into one panel. In the lower left quadrant, the pieces are all sewn together in rows.

5 comments:

Helenchaffin said...

I luv that you made a Christmas one

Julierose said...

this is a beautiful piece with all those little subtleties of directional print settings!! Nice work hugs, Julierose

Quiltdivajulie said...

So much progress in such a short time!

JustGail said...

Love the attention to the fabric directions. And kicking out the fabrics that don't make you happy. I will not say how many times I've had to spend time the the seam ripper after sewing the wrong side of a strip together. Or the wrong side of the fabrics together. Or the wrong...(yeah, I should NOT sew when tired!)
This is going to be another fantastic quilt when finished.

Cherie Moore said...

Big sigh…..such a downer because there’s nothing for it but to unsew the whole row :( I’m ever so happy the cats in hats made the cut :-D