Create a magical scene depicting an idyllic Christmas, with snow, carol singers and the joy of the festive season!
Design, piecing and quilting by JO COLWILL
APPLIQUÉ PROJECT
BEHIND THE QUILT A COSY & SNOWY SCENE
“This quilt is inspired by our farmhouse and a lovely cottage snuggled away on Bodmin moor. For me, Christmas is a time of feeling cosy and sharing with friends, family and animals. The thought of snow is always magical but, in reality, not always very practical. So my quilts are a dream of the perfect Christmas where everyone is safe and happy. You can make this quilt from scraps – but you might need the snow background and night sky fabrics. You can enlarge or decrease the size of this quilt by making more or less trees – it’s all meant to be fun. I used a combination of pieced trees and hand appliqué for the house and the tree surrounded by people. You could also take each appliqué block and make them up as small wall hangings.” – Jo Colwill
You will need
■ White fabric (snow) – 1¼yds
■ Medium grey with white dots (night sky) – 1yd
■ Selection of greens* (frosty trees) – Twenty-eight (28) 5in x 8½in pieces
■ Grey (wood looking print for the fence) – One (1) fat quarter
■ Red check (for the 3D stockings) – One (1) fat eighth
■ Contrast fabric (for the 3D stocking lining) – One (1) fat eighth
■ White grunge fabric (snow on the roof, etc) – One (1) fat quarter
■ Wool Fabric** (dogs) – Three (3) 3in x 6in pieces
■ Stone coloured fabric (house) – Approx. 10in square
■ Warm small check print** (windows) – Approx. 10in square
■ A little picture of a Christmas tree** for the doorway and then fine blue/grey stripe for the doors and blue grey for the door posts
■ Father Christmas – Scraps of red, black, white and brown
■ Reindeer – Approx. 10in square of a small ditzy print and fluffy textured scraps for the antlers
■ Cow – Scraps or a printed cow** that you can fussy cut
■ Small pieces of fabric for the people around the tree (for their clothes and musical instruments).
You can choose small, cosy looking checks and stripes or small prints
■ Red felt for the little cut out hearts on the fence
■ Batting – 48in x 57in
■ Backing – 2⅔yds
■ No.12 gold eye appliqué needle and Aurifil 80 appliqué thread
■ Gütermann sulky metallic thread, metallic sewing machine needles 80 or no. 12
■ Embroidery thread such as Gütermann 30 green and red
■ ½in bias maker
■ Small amount of Bondaweb (tiny hearts)
■ Thin card to make the tree block templates
■ Templates: Appliqué templates, five (5) tree block templates, small stocking template
Finished size
■ Quilt: Approx. 40½in x 49½in
Notes
■ All seams are ¼in unless stated otherwise.
■ For the quilting, Jo used Gütermann sulky metallic and a meta
