A Christmas quilt.

This is the quilt for our eldest son and his wife.  

They sent me three quilt pictures of what they liked. I got to choose  and they did not know which one they where getting.

Told them this pattern was no longer available,  so they thought I was making another pattern.

The finished quilt, took a picture in this snow. I put a clean painting waterproof sheet down first, so the quilt will stay dry. This has now left for their home. 

Machine free motion quilting and handquilting was used.

Quilted Celtic designs on the four corners of the second borders.

It was started on the second of October and finished on the 8th of December this year.

Lightning strikes by Chris Timmins is the pattern. It called for a half a meter of each of the fabrics, if you are making a Bargello quilt for the first time, rather use .6m per fabric and cut one extra strip, of each colour. If you have made many, then you know how to sub cut and remake new strips to use further along the pattern.

All this snow is almost all gone, we had rain for most part of the day. The happy couple loved their quilt, we did a zoom call and it was fun to see their response. Spent hours cooking and enjoying a family day, now the kitchen is tidy and we will be putting up our feet and relaxing while watching a movie.