Kathy’s Santa Quilt

If you’re following along on my instagram, @leishakaye …then you may have seen this beautiful quilt at the beginning of November. Excited to share with you all the details!!!

Kathy made this quilt years ago, and she wanted to finally get it quilted. The embroidery patterns are out of print, they are by Kathy Pace from Gooseberry Hill. I did see some of the patterns on eBay when I searched her name. If you’re interested, you’ll have to do some more searching to find the rest of them. Kathy made traditional chaining blocks to frame the Santa’s.

I used the Citrus Mint Omni 3081 thread from Superior Threads, which matched the background fabric perfectly!!

I used a 6 oz bamboo batting from Winline Textiles. It’s my absolute favorite batting!! The loft is nice, too!

I used my 3” and 10” Circle2 rulers to quilt all the curves in the chaining blocks. (Below is my 3/9” ruler) The small orange peel petals were quilted with the 3” ruler, and the arcs were quilted with my 10” ruler. This circle ruler set has been so nice to have. There are 6 rulers in my Circle2 machine quilting circle rulers, the circles ranging from 2” up to 13”. They are made in America with 1/4” high quality acrylic. - Design Patent D875,574 -

I also used Linda from The Quilted Pineapple Edge rulers for the straight lines inside the little squares and sashing.

I quilted freehand pebbles in the background and quilted lightly in the hand embroidery, just so the blocks wouldn’t be too puffy. If you’re interested in learning how to quilt freemotion, you should check out my Quilting It Freemotion course that is available in my shop. I teach 10 different quilting designs, like these Pebbles. You can pick and choose which design you’d like to learn! It’s completely self paced. Join me!!!

My Swirly Feather, which I quilted in the border on this quilt, is also another one of the designs that I teach. It’s great over an entire quilt, a border, or inside appliqué…skies the limit.

Here are some close up pics on the Santa’s. Such beautiful handwork by Kathy!

Seriously beautiful details!

This is why I love what I do…adding beautiful quilting textures that help a quilt come alive.

One more picture of that center section. My favorite!! It’s so fun for me to see a design like this come together.

You can see how the four corner blocks link so beautifully with the center.

One last quilty view. ❤️

If you’re interested in having me quilt for you, send me an email and I’ll get you on my schedule. quiltingit@gmail.com *note…custom quilting spots are limited. Please don’t wait to contact me if you have something you’d like custom quilted.

Thanks for stopping by! Happy holidays, and quilting. Leisha