Welcome to Twelve Days of Christmas Quilts: Day 8 !

Believe it or not, it's that time of year again: time for Twelve Days of Christmas Quilts ! We are featuring an inspiring quilt each weekday, ending on Christmas Eve.  We wish you a very happy, healthy and creative holiday season.

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Tis the Season by Monika Hancock, quilted by Debbie Hancock

Blue ribbon winner for Best Machine Embroidery at the 2018 Quilt Arizona show, Monikia explains,  "Absolutely love doing Claudia Dinnell's embroidery designs. This is my seventh, and I really learned a lot from Claudia."

Because Claudia Dinnell's machine embroidery designs involve the very popular embroidery cross stitch pattern that many of us learned as children, her lovely patterns seem especially homey and familiar during the holiday season. You can also see the outline stitch pattern, used to accentuate the holly berries and leaves, plus the base of this fun snow globe. Everything seems to hark back to the joys of Christmases long ago. 

Claudia Dinnell's  charming  redwork and lacework embroidery designs, including Tis the Season are downloadable from her website, claudiascreationsaz.com .  Just scroll down to the bottom of her home page, and you'll see the download button for Tis the Season.  What a fun project !

Image credits:  Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2018 Quilt Arizona show.