Excited to share this darling quilt with you that my friend and neighbor Diana Hatfield designed!!! Such a privilege to quilt it for her.

It’s called “Oh Christmas Deer” and is available in a kit with Flexi Fuse already fused on the back and it’s also cut out ready to press onto your background fabric.

I used a variety of different colors of Omni thread from Superior Threads to match the different fabrics. I also used 8020 cotton poly blend batting from Winline Textiles.

Are you hoping to learn how to freemotion quilt? This quilt has a couple different textures that I teach in my Quilting It Freemotion course. The background is a Crackle freehand design that is so fun and versatile for a variety of different quilts. The other is the Wood Grain design, which is also great as fur in animals, which I did here. Freehand or freemotion designs are really versatile. I’ve quilted the wood grain design on an entire quilt, on tree trunks, on the faces or bodies of animals, in flower stems, leaves, and so on…same with the crackle. I’ve quilted it on garden themed quilts, as well as Halloween and Christmas and anything that would be great to “crackle”. Please join me and let’s get quilting!!

For a sneak peek into my course, watch this intro video.

For the lines in the bow and pinstripes in the antlers I used an Edge ruler from Linda at The Quilted Pineapple. Her Edge rulers are my favorite straight rulers.

Isn’t he handsome!!??!!

I quilted a little bit in the ornaments just to keep them from laying or popping weird. Just an echoing line or two. Then I just quilted around the outside of the pine cones. The nice thing about the kit, all of these pieces are precut and you get all the amazing details.