12 Days of Christmas: Santa's On His Way

Merry Christmas to all our readers! To celebrate the season, we're posting 12 of our favorite Christmas  quilts from recent shows.  We hope you enjoy the beautiful work expressed in these quilts! 

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Santa's On His Way by Debra Day, quilted by Stephanie Nordlin

Debra Day bought this pretty fabric panel many years ago but did not know what to do with it. When her guild said they were doing a Round Robin, she decided this panel was perfect for the challenge. Each month they were given a different border to put on their quilt. Debra says, "I love how mine turned out!" The finished top was machine quilted (computer guided) by Stephanie Nordlin. 

 Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2025 Arizona Quilters Guild show.

12 Days of Christmas: Reach for the Stars

Merry Christmas to all our readers! To celebrate the season, we're posting 12 of our favorite Christmas  quilts from recent shows.  We hope you enjoy the beautiful details expressed in these masterpieces! 

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Reach for the Stars by Jodi Richards, quilted by Virginia Longarm & Jodi Richards.  

This quilt doesn't have a Christmas name, but the red and green colors - and the poinsettia center - speaks of the season. Starting with a Feathered Star pattern in Marsha McCloskey's book, this was an eight-month project from the design to the very last stitch. Jodi Richards says, "This quilt challenged me in every element of the process, and I loved every minute.  I am at least a fifth-generation quilter, and this quilt will be a part of my quilting legacy." The center block features a beautiful poinsettia and holly leaves.

The tiny half-square triangles are perfectly pieced, as shown below.

Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2025 Houston International Quilt Festival.

 

12 Days of Christmas: A Baltimore Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all our readers! To celebrate the season, we're posting 12 of our favorite Christmas quilts from recent shows.  We hope you enjoy the beautiful details expressed in these masterpieces! 

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Christmas Dreamin' by Rhonda Jenner (South Dakota).  

This beautiful quilt was made with hand applique, embroidery, and quilting; machine piecing and quilting. Based on the Baltimore Christmas pattern by Pearl Pereira, Rhonda Jenner changed several things on the design. She removed Santa's pack, the ornaments, and the pipe; and added a quilt for the doll, some drumsticks, an airplane, a football, a ball, and a glove.

Rhonda Jenner says, "Fourteen years ago, three of us chose our fabrics to complete our quilts. One got lost, one finished the year before she passed but never quilted it, and I finished mine last year.  Between life's adventures of illnesses and losses, it is now complete."   - The angels and gingerbread men are among our favorite blocks, shown below:

Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2025 Houston International Quilt Festival.
 

12 Days of Christmas: A Christmas Village!

Merry Christmas to all our readers! To celebrate the season, we're posting 12 of our favorite Christmas quilts from recent shows.  We hope you enjoy the beautiful details expressed in these masterpieces! 

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A Christmas Village, made and quilted by Julie Hallquist.  

Fifteen different houses make up the quilt's center, while the border is made from pieced trees in a range of green colors. This holiday quilt was a foundation paper pieced pattern initially published in Quilters Newsletter magazine [pattern Source: First Snow by Tina Curran.] 

We enjoyed seeing the cute details in each of the houses! Julie Hallquist says. "It was a great opportunity to add stamps, crystals, decorative stitching and other decorative items to celebrate the season."  

 Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2025 Tucson Quilters Guild show.

12 Days of Christmas: Lighting the Way

Merry Christmas to all our readers! To celebrate the season, we're posting 12 of our favorite Christmas quilts from recent shows.  We hope you enjoy the beautiful details expressed in these masterpieces! 

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Lighting the Way by Joyce Strassburg, quilted by Jessica Jones.  

The Star has been lighting the way for millennia, hence the title of this quilt. Joyce Strassburg says, "The star and church are the focal points of the quilt; however, this pattern also includes the homes of PEOPLE. This is the community that imagines and creates the many artifacts for future generations to learn from and appreciate." 

 Lighting the Way was professionally machine quilted (hand guided) by Jessica Jones. This quilt was based on the "Silent Night" pattern and kit by The Quilt Factory/Debra Grogan.  The quilt won a Third Place award (yellow ribbon) at the 2025 Arizona Quilters Guild show.

Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2025 Arizona Quilters Guild show.  

6 FREE patterns for Christmas mug rugs!

For a quick Christmas gift, consider a handmade mug rug or pot holder!  These cute projects make wonderful gifts. We hope you enjoy these FREE patterns! 

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Christmas Tree hot pad or mug rug, free pattern by Pink Chalk Studio (CLICK for PDF download)

 Holiday Mug Rug tutorial by Pat Bravo for We All Sew (CLICK for tutorial)

Vintage Ornament mug rug by Amy Chappell for Thermoweb (CLICK for tutorial) + (CLICK for PDF download)

Candy Canes paper pieced pattern by Paper Panache (CLICK for PDF download)

Patchwork Christmas potholder, free tutorial by Minki Kim for We All Sew (CLICK for PDF download)

Merry mug rug tutorial at Bryan House Quilts (CLICK for tutorial)

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12 Days of Christmas: Amaryllis Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all our readers! To celebrate the season, we're posting 12 of our favorite Christmas quilts from recent shows.  We hope you enjoy the beautiful details expressed in these masterpieces! 

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Amaryllis Christmas by Betsy Wycislak, quilted by Valeria Greenwell.  

When choosing fabrics for a quilt, many experts start with the border. Here's a great example! Betsy Wycislak says that the amaryllis fabric (chosen for the border) inspired her to make the 2023/24 Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt ("Indigo Way") into a Christmas quilt.  "It's the first Christmas quilt I've made, that I get to keep." Snippets of the amaryllis fabric can be seen in the centers of these blocks:

 Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2025 Tucson (Arizona) Quilters Guild show.

12 Days of Christmas: Night at the Tree Lot

Merry Christmas to all our readers! To celebrate the season, we're posting 12 of our favorite Christmas quilts from recent shows.  We hope you enjoy the beautiful details expressed in these masterpieces! 

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Night at the Tree Lot by Hanne Lohde (California).  

This original design by Hanne Lohde features hand applique, embellishment, embroidery, and dyeing, and machine quilting. Red and white appliqued Scandinavian hearts decorate the border and are echoed in the quilting design.  

Hanne asks, "Have you ever stopped to think about what goes on at a Christmas tree lot after all the people go home at night?" This charming quilt tells the story about what happens when the snowmen come alive, and the gnomes and forest animals all come out to decorate the trees.  Each and every tree is unique!

 

Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt INspiration at the 2025 Houston International Quilt Festival.

12 Days of Christmas: True Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all our readers! To celebrate the season, we're posting 12 of our favorite Christmas quilts from recent shows.  We hope you enjoy the beautiful details expressed in these masterpieces!

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True Christmas by Carol Carpenter, quilted by Kris Neifeld 

Carol Carpenter says, "Christmas brings joy in so many different ways.  The sweet applique and pieced pattern caught my eye and shares my vision of a true Christmas image.  Joy to the World!"

This wonderful quilt is based on the Christmas Morning Delight pattern by Lisa Norton & Lora Zmak at Material Girlfriends.  Many colorful batik fabrics can be seen in various blocks. Kris Neifeld quilted spiky stars within the sawtooth stars in the borders:

Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2025 Tucson Quilters Guild show. 

12 Days of Christmas: Gingerbread Stiches

Merry Christmas to all our readers! To celebrate the season, we're posting 12 of our favorite Christmas quilts from recent shows.  We hope you enjoy the beautiful details expressed in these masterpieces!

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Gingerbread Stitches by Martie Warden (Arizona), quilted by Rose Maynes.  

Who doesn't love a gingerbread house or gingerbread cookies? Martie Warden says, "This felted wool applique on flannel BOM is perfect for my son and daughter-in-laws home.  It is the largest felted wool piece I have done so far.  I had so much fun doing all techniques and working with Rose to figure out the long arm design. I hope they enjoy it for years to come."  

  

The houses are decorated with small ornaments, buttons, and embroidery. Some of Martie Warden's beautiful embroidery can be seen on the holly leaves and gingerbread man in the border, below:

 

 

Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2025 Quilt Arizona show.  This quilt by Martie Warden was based on a published design: Gingerbread Stitches BOM by Calico Patch Design. 

Free pattern day! Snowflake quilts

Snowflake quilts are a perfect way to celebrate winter, especially with FREE patterns! To go to a pattern: Scroll down the page until you see the quilt you like, then click on the words "CLICK for PDF download" (or the hyperlinked website name) in the title above the quilt. 

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 Snow Crystal quilt, 62"  square, free pattern for Anthology Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Pixelflake quilt, 66 x 66", free pattern by Stacey Day for the American Quilters Society (CLICK for PDF download)

Snowflake quilt, 60" square, free pattern at Michael Miller Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Holiday Retreat quilt, 82 x 94", free pattern by Denise Russell for Moda Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Winter Homecoming quilt, 65 x 75", free pattern at Hoffman California Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Blue December pillow or mini quilt, free pattern by Joanna Marsh for Janome (CLICK for PDF download)

Ice Palace quilt, 62 x 82", free pattern by Heidi Pridemore for Michael Miller Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Winter is Here quilt, 52 x 64", free pattern by Flaurie & Finch for RJR Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Snowflake Wrap quilt, 59" square, and table runner, 23 x 49", free pattern at Hoffman California Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Winter Frost quilt, 61 x 73", free pattern by Jan Shade Beach for Henry Glass Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Snowflake blocks, free patterns by Jill Majers for Apple Avenue Quilts (CLICK for PDF download)

Frosted Flakes quilt, 80" square, free pattern at Hoffman California Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

 Crystalline quilt, 75 x 75", free pattern at Art Gallery Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Snowflake wall quilt or table topper, 30 x 30", free pattern at Art Gallery Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Winter Wonderland quilt or table runner, free pattern at Henry Glass Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download of quilt) + (CLICK for PDF download of table runner)

Icy Windowpanes quilt, free pattern by Lucinda Walker for Hoffman Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Don't Lose Your Mittens, 52 x 74", free quilt pattern by Maywood Studio (CLICK for PDF download)

Scandi snowflake table runner, 10 x 40", free pattern by Hilary Gooding for Makower UK (CLICK for PDF download) 

Winter's Bounty table runner, 18 x 42", free pattern by Natalie Crabtree for Anthology Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download) 

Spinning Snowflake table topper, ~19 x 44", free pattern by Reeze L. Hanson for Quilters World (CLICK for PDF download)

Snow Days - Snow Man quilt, 69 x 81", by AE Nathan Co.  
 Here are the downloadable pattern files:  Page 1 and Page 2.

Tweety's Snowflake by Wendy Butler Berns at Quilters Newsletter (CLICK for PDF download)

Snow table runner, 48 x 14", free pattern by Denise Russart at Just Quiltin' (CLICK for PDF instructions) + (CLICK for PDF templates)

Aunt Kate's Snowflake Quilt, free pattern by Trish Poolson for Moda Bakeshop (CLICK for PDF download)

Blueberry Ice quilt, queen size, free pattern by Gerri Robinson as seen at McCalls Quilting (CLICK for PDF download)

Winter's Promise quilt, 92 x 92", free pattern at RJR Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download) (includes snowflake templates)

Snowfall quilt, 60 x 60", free pattern by Susan Emory for Michael Miller Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download) (includes snowflake templates)

Blizzard Quilt, 61 x 61", free pattern by Susan Emory for Michael Miller Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download) 

Twinkle quilt, 72 x 86", free pattern by Stephanie Prescott for Hoffman California Fabrics (CLICK for PDF download)

Snowflake quilt, free foundation pattern by Carol Doak (CLICK for PDF download)

 

Image credits: This post was updated on November 17, 2025. All images are copyrighted by their owners. Please respect their generosity in sharing their free patterns, and the restrictions they have placed on the use of these designs. Complete information can be found at the designers' websites provided in the links.  Some of these are tutorials while others have downloadable patterns; we have tried to note which is which in the title above each photo.  If any links are broken, we'd love to know; email us at quiltinspiration {at} gmail {dot} com.  Note: Scientifically, all snowflakes are crystals with exactly 6 points. However, some designers have taken artistic license in portraying these winter motifs.