Slow Sunday Stitching

Thanks to everyone for sharing your opinion on the extra quilting for the Peanuts Christmas quilt. I listened. I think I knew all along that I had to stitch the extra quilting. Rather than finish the last side of the border, I plunged into quilting the 20 little panels. I knew that if I finished that border I probably wouldn't want to do the accent quilting. The panels are now done and I will be marking and stitching the last part of the border on this cold and rainy Sunday. They look great and I am so glad I did the extra stitching.

Here are some of the panes with the extra outline quilting.

The stitching really shows up when you outline the snow drifts.

Now of course I am looking to the next project. I have a table runner in the works. 

The pattern is from Twist-and-Turn Bargello Quilts by Eileen Wright.

I have a lot of strips to cut for it. The colors are a little off because of the rainy day photography. 

 I still have some more to cut. Then on to sewing!

I also have a jelly roll in my fabric stash.

Yesterday I decided to start looking for patterns. I can't believe that I couldn't find anything appealing in all of the books and magazines I have collected. Few of those patterns use jelly rolls. So I trolled the web and found this Boxing Day Jelly Roll Quilt pattern.

I think this might be my next quilt project after the table runner. I love the geometric look.


I am joining Kathy for Slow Sunday Stitching this week. Pop on over to her site to see what other bloggers are stitching this week.

I haven't worked on my cross-stitch at all in the past week. No updates there.

Thanks for stopping by!