Yes, I know that it’s summer around here, but what can I say? It’s Christmas in July! So let me introduce you to my Gift Box quilt made with Kate Spain’s newest Christmas line Flurry. The instructions for this quilt are located over at the Moda Bake Shop site, so be sure to check it out! Even if you are not into Christmas fabrics, take a little peek…I have a lot of other fabric suggestions as well for this pattern.
I hope that you all enjoy the quilt pattern. I’ve been snuggling with my new quilt ever since I finished it a few weeks back. Just one of my many crazy projects that needed to be completed during my move across the country. Sometimes I don’t think all of these things through. 😉
Congratulations, Angela! It's a great pattern! My favourite gift to give (besides quilts) is books, especially for children's gifts. One can never have too many books.
I usually give some knitted gifts (mittens, hats, scarves). This year there will be more sewing. And, it's not Christmas til I've watched "A Christmas Story" at least 3 times.
What a great pattern! And I really like the idea of the snuggly backing fabric. I am the official "Book Auntie" in the family – all the kids always get books from me for Christmas and birthdays. I try to find unusual books that will spark their interest. Plus I make quilts, and knit stocking caps.
WOW! Your quilt is amazing! My favourite Christmas story is my own- I meet my future husband at Carols by Candlelight, a Melbourne event, many years ago! This year we celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary!
a favorite Christmas tradition at our house is watching the movie Elf. so fun! thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
I tried leaving a comment, so forgive me if this is a duplicate. I love your quilt! My favorite Christmas tradition is taking a day off work and baking cookies for family/friends.
Jane (quittersnvrwin @ gmail dot com)
Congrats Angela on a wonderful MBS quilt – my favourite Christmas treat? Afternoon delight of course.
I always like to watch "A Christmas Carol" at Christmas, I don't care which one it is, (and there are a few!) Congratulations on your new pattern, and thank you for providing it to us all for free. Linda
Gift boxes is lovely and original. I love Christmas carols. We used to go caroling and I would love to do that again someday. Thanks for a chance at the giveaway.
My brothers and I have a list of Christmas movies that we watch every year: White Christmas, Holiday Inn, It's a Wonderful Life … you get the idea. And now my children follow this tradition as well.
Your pattern is very striking! Thanks so much for the chance to win Flurry — my new favorite Christmas item!
Love your MBS quilt desing, it's really very cool!!
It's not Christmas without watching the Sound of Music and singing along with all the songs {badly of course!}
Beautiful quilt! I always love the preparations right before Christmas like baking goodies and making ornaments and gifts. My family's Christmas Eve tradition is to roast chestnuts while listening to Christmas music or watching a holiday movie, especially the old stop-motion shows (love the abominable snowman!). Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
I love this pattern and look forward to trying it out soon! Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love to give handmade gifts and am usually working until the last minute to get all the gifts completed. But I love doing it and seeing how excited everyone gets over the item!!! That used to be the best part of Christmas to me….before I had grandchildren!! 🙂
The pattern is really great – and the fabrics are pretty lush too.
Last Christmas we were snowed in, all were full of flu and then on Xmas morning our 6 year old daughter took it upon herself to open every single one of her presents at @4am whilst we were asleep. Let's just say there wasn't much Yo, Ho, Ho that day!
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Lovely quilt, love black vs bright colours.
Books is what I get to my children, and love to receive, for christmas.
I have been good so perhaps I got some luck this time.
You new quilt is so nice !
I love Christmas carols, we have a lot of them in our country ( Czech Republic in Europe ). And Sting´s album If On a Winters Night.
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Congratulations on your pattern – I love it!
I always make a Christmas quilt and this year I think I'll make this one!
My favourite gift to GET, well, I got an iPhone one year, but I don't think that's ever going to happen again! 😀
Congratulations – great pattern!
I do love Christmas – I'm originally from Australia, so love the hot Christmas we get there, but now living in the northern hemisphere, I love that I can experience the cold Christmases I always watched in movies 🙂
What a great quilt, love it 🙂 My favorite Christmas movie is It's a Wonderful Life, song is Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives, and I've been nicely naughty this year 🙂 Thanks for the chance!
Love your quilt! My favorite Christmas song is Silent Night – the Stevie Nicks version and my favorite holiday activity is baking. It's not often that I get the opportunity to do it.
I love the quilt. I love the Flurry line of fabrics. I live getting tools for Christmas… Knitting tools, spinning tools, quilting tools and jewelry making tools. I've been known to be happier with a pair of pliers or quilting rulers etc. than a spa gift certificate!!! You get the drift. LOL. and what did I get last Christmas? A spa gift certificate. Still haven't used it yet.
Loved the tutorial at MBS. Of course I love giving quilts but I also like oddball gifts that surprise the recipients. Like last year I gave each of the men in my extended family a Gorillatorch (love the name!). They are flashlights that are on magnetic, bendable tripods. All the guys seemed a little confused but all have found them to be very handy. I'm glad I got one for my husband so I have one to use too!
I love your Gift Box quilt! It's amazing! Every July we watch Christmas movies and I get my Christmas music organized and start playing it in my sewing room! Thanks for a great giveaway and a chance to win!
what a fun project! exactly when did you find time to do this during the move??
My favorite christmas movie is the nightmare before christmas 🙂 Weird, I know. This is an interesting pattern – not sure that I would make it but I like the way yours turned out. A lot different than the other things that come up on Moda Bakeshop lately which is a VERY good thing.
I love the pattern. I love to give Penzeys Spices besides quilts.
Angela, that is a beautiful quilt. Thank you so much for sharing it on Moda Bake Shop. It has shot to the top of my to do list. I'd decided to make a quilt for my (adult) DS who has moved 263 miles away from Perth a couple of weeks ago for work, but have been stuck about what pattern to use….It has to be the RIGHT one. Yours is it! I'll be off to my LQS sometime this week for some fabric….sooner than later I think! I had a little cry as I was writing this, as I miss him very much and I'm sure I will when I'm making the quilt, too, but I want him to have something special made by his mum! Again, thank you so much for sharing your pattern.
Great quilt Angela … lovely jubbly …
I have my reservations about Santa … "He knows when you are sleeping" apparently. Where I come from we call that a stalker …
xx
Really love the quilt! Something I can imagine snuggling under next to the fire 😉 Hmm..normally at christmas we all go to an aunts house (about 20 of us?), have dinner, friendly g'gambling' and card games..bit of monopoly etc. And not to forget opening the presents at the tree! Its always lovely and brings the family together
Congratulations Angela! I adore all the Christmas preparation…making gifts, sewing Christmas dresses for the girls, sending cards, baking cookies.
I love love love your quilt!! So pretty….. And my favorite Christmas tradition is one we started when our daughter (now 27) was little. Every year we'd get her one of those automated stuffed animals, the ones that sing a song when you squeeze their paw, and put it on her bedside table while she was sleeping on Christmas Eve, with a note from Santa. (Santa always signs his name with stars instead of A's.) She'd wake up and play with it, so we'd always know when she was ready to get up and start Christmas!! As she got older, we tried to find more and more annoying ones, too – all part of the fun!
Congratulations on your quilt! My favorite Christmas song is Greensleeves!
Congrats!! It is beautiful. You are right, this pattern would be fun in all kinds of fabrics.
One of the things I do at Christmas is wrap the presents to my kids and husband in fabric from my stash. It saves on paper and looks pretty cool too.
Oh no, if we're pretending it's nearly Christmas, then I'm in panic mode as I have hardly got any gifts made!!
Love the quilt, it's beautiful
Your quilt is stunning. White Christmas for us every year on Christmas Eve – think the dogs even know the songs. Thanks for this.
Congrats on your 1st project at Moda Bake Shop. I love the contrast.
My favorite gift to five is always something I've made…it can be anything from a knitted pair of socks or mittens, to a quilt or a set of napkins and placemats. A true gift of love. My favorite gift to receive is a a book of photos from someplace like snapfish. My daughter has been giving me a book each year and oh what a joy to hold in my hands and look at. The time she spends going through all her pics and selecting just the right ones, formal or goofy…this is also a gift of love and means soooooo much to me.
I'd love to win Kate's layer cake so that I can get started on a new Christmas gift…thanks for the chance to win.
Again, Congrats to you!!
Cheryl, MA
Congrats on the pattern! My father in law and his wife always give me a large amount gift card to a fabric store like Hobby Lobby or Joann's. It helps a lot with extraneous stuff for quilting, as well as for picking up some fabrics.
Hi Angela, I found your blog through the link on MBS. Love your pattern…it does look perfect for the males in my life. Christmas tradition…if Mom is wrapping it goes in a box. Empty food boxes, delivery boxes, shirt boxes all are fair game. And if it can be disguised, it will be.
I have yet to make a Christmas quilt. Thanks for the chance!
My girlfriend just sent me this pattern bc she knows how much i LOVE flurry but have had a tough time finding a pattern I like to use it with. Well, here it is and it's your first Moda Bake Shop project- congrats! That's huge success. I haven't bought any Flurry yet, so I'd love a chance to win.
I love to make various things for people for Christmas. Last year was my son's first Christmas so I put together some photobooks for family of his first year of life. Much of my family live in Poland, so it was fun to translate the captions and send them some books, they loved them.
Thanks for the chance to win- I just bought a bunch of Kona white so I'd love to make your quilt with the flurry on a white background.
Congrats again,
Kasia
Great tutorial. I love all of the variations.
For Christmas, I'm hoping for an Accuquilt cutter.
Jennyy
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Nice job on the new quilt! My favorite thing about Christmas is ornaments. I have a wonderful, and growing, collection. I've already bought four new ones this year. I leave my tree up for 3-4 months because I love my ornament collection so much!! Just a little obsessed!!
Very nice, it is the first time I have seen Flurry used with black. Makes a dramatic quilt.
So, something Christmas. Next week I'm traveling to my sister in law's house and we are spending a few days making Christmas tree skirts. We bought the pattern last year and have been collecting fabric for many months now, and are finally ready to cut and stitch! Love homemade holiday things.
I love the pattern!
I am really excited about a few quilts I am working on for Christmas gifts this year! I have never given anything crafty as gifts, so I hope the recipients love those quilts as much as I do!
my favorite Christmas tradition is opening the presents. even though we're all so big now, my parents still make a scavenger hunt and have clues for us to find to hunt down our presents.
Congratulations!! I love that the colours pop out of the black – awesome! After too many years of saying that we need a new tree skirt I am finally going to quilt one!!
Yay! Congratulations! I love everything about Christmas, but what I most look forward to is getting and decorating the Christmas tree with family.
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Oh my goodness Angela, it's LOVELY!!! How cool to be a part of the Bake Shop too!! You are FAMOUS 🙂 I probably *need* a Christmas quilt, don't I?! hehe! So a Christmas comment- I decorate on Nov.1!! Really and truly! My tree takes 3 or 4 days to put up, and I'm not going to all that trouble if I can't enjoy it for more than a few weeks 😉 I LOVE Christmas 🙂
I love this quilt! I will definitely be making it soon. My favorite thing about Christmas is getting together with my mom's side of the family. We have a HUGE family and we all have a love of music. After the meal is over, we gather together where my aunt plays the piano and my uncle plays the guitar and sing Christmas carols. My favorite is O Holy Night. When my grandpa was a live, he would play the violin. So many, many happy memories….