Christmas Music Quilt for My Piano Teacher

 

Another fat-quarter star quilt done, this one gifted to my piano teacher. It's music notes and Christmas fabric. It's prettier than it looks in the picture. The Christmas fabric was a set I got from the guild's scrap table; actually so was the music fabric! I used up some scrap binding and about a fat quarter of another fabric, plus a yard and some scraps for the backing. And even scrap batting! So it was a scrap victory even though it doesn't look like a scrap quilt.

The quilt finishes to around 40x40 which makes a good lap size for many people. I hope my teacher enjoys it! I've wanted to make him a quilt for a while now.

The Gift of Music

I finished my GiftWrapped quilt top the other day. You can find the pattern here.

I am very happy with this; it's richer looking in real life than it shows in the picture. I love Christmas quilts and plan to keep it. 

I made the throw size and used a variety of reds for the bows rather than the single red suggested by the pattern. This allowed me to pull from stash and not buy extra red fabric. I used a white fabric with gold musical notes as the background. The inner border is a red fabric with musical instruments. I started learning to play piano this year and I'm calling this "The Gift of Music". Once it's quilted I'll add a label to it with a musical theme.

Here you can see a close up on the border fabrics. I had a stash of reds for the bows but I did buy the two green fabrics especially for this quilt. I like the way the bows look like they are floating on the background.

I've had the pattern around for a couple of years. I figure I am 2-3 years behind in terms of my Christmas quilt-making.  It was tricky getting everything to line up and while it's not perfect it's not bad.