Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 9

It's Day 9 of Twelve Days of Christmas Quilts. We wish you a very happy, healthy and creative holiday and New Year!
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By the Chimney with Care by Karen Turnbull (California)

This delightful, original applique quilt won second place in the Art - Pictorial quilt category at the 2018 Road to California show. The creator and quilter, Karen Turnbull, says that her Norwegian heritage inspired her to create a Scandinavian [Christmas] scene. "I was inspired to make a fireplace scene to hang on my living room wall each Christmas, because my house doesn't have a real fireplace and mantel."

The technique is fused, raw-edge applique, using Pellon Wonder-Under, and sewn on a domestic Janome machine.  Karen says,  "I even taught myself to make Norwegian Hardanger lace to decorate the stockings and mantel." She also created the appearance of fireplace tiles, and quilted floral motifs within the "tiles", as shown below.

Each part of this quilt has something fun to see, including the pretty woven and embroidered ornaments on the tree!

Image credits:  Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2018 Road to California show.