I had the best of intentions to make 4 Elf quilts for all the grandkids this year. I should have known that even just 2 quilts almost identical would be a stretch. These adorable guys were pretty easy and fun to make. The pattern is by Jennifer Long at Sewastory.
I followed the pattern for the Elf both times but changed up the bottom sections
. For the Red Elf I just put a longer bottom section , wider side borders and some extra snowflakes.
Our Little Green guy has the called for borders I believe, but I swapped out the original lower section for some trees from Lori Holt's Vintage Christmas Book.
He's hand quilted along with the trees .... but his background is free motion quilted with loopy swirls and the border has machine quilted straight lines.
Backed with a cozy Minky.
The Red Elf is backed in extra border and background material as well as a strip of fabric leftover from the backing on my Vintage Christmas quilt from last year.
No hand quilting on this baby. I did all over fairly large loopy swirls...I am still in awe of how easy my Janome 6650 makes fmq feel. That extra throat space is sooooo worth it!! I still prefer to handquilt when my hands lets me, but I'm slow at it so it's great to be able to finish the quilts from start to finish myself either way.
I'm pretty sure the kids will love them, the quilts are plenty big to be used for years to come.
started: March 2024
finished: Oct. 2024
