Christmas Trip Around the World Quilt and Neighbor Gifts

Coasters as candle mats for Neighbor gifts this year.  You can find a tutorial here

Packaged up with those delicious cookies from Trader Joes.

Christmas Trip Around the World Quilt given to this nice family!

Green and white diagonal stripe binding

Quilted with straight stitching point to point

I started this quilt years ago when I saw the tutorial by Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict (see link below)  Here are a few instructions but go to Sarah's blog at the link for more in depth instructions.

Lay out the 16 strips and sew together and finally sew the two end strips together to form a tube.

Slice off 2 1/2" strip sets and pick out stitching one block down as you go, so you will get the fabrics in stair step order

Repeat to make 4 identical sections.  

Trip around the world inspiration and tutorial was from this post with tutorial by Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

Isn't it fabulous!

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

A neighbor who quilts and takes walks with me, got me an Advent gift, filled with little boxes that you open each day as you count down to Christmas.

In one of the boxes was a pom pom maker and I wondered what I could use it for?  So I made her this snowman pillow and then pom poms and sewed them to each corner.

The hats look extra cute with the pom poms!  I first made this square in a square pillow back in 2015.  You can find some cutting instructions in that post here.

In the center it would look great to put a big snowflake button but I didn't have one, so I stitched a snowflake and some popular Christmas song lyrics.  I hope she will enjoy her gift!