Berry Wreath

Berry Wreath Quilt

My quilt guild has a free table every meeting.  At the last meeting, I picked up a copy of Fons and Porter Love of Quilting, Issue December 2011.  The cover displayed the Berry Wreath quilt and I decided to make it this year for Christmas.  I try to make at least one new item each year.

When I lived in California, my church quilting ministry was given a set of fabric that had already been cut into strips and had a pattern with it.  The fabric was Christmasy and we usually didn't make any holiday theme quilts.  So we decided not to use it but to either give it to someone else or one of us could have it.  I liked the fabric so I took it home with me.  I decided to see if this fabric would work for the Berry Wreath, and to my delight, there was enough fabric to make the quilt.  I never did like the original pattern that the giver of the fabric had planned for it.  Last year I made three Christmas stockings out of this set of fabrics, so I was happy to be able to use it for something I wanted to make.  The only fabric I needed to purchase was the background fabric for the applique blocks.

The quilt measures 61 inches square.  I machine pieced and appliqued the blocks.  I also machine quilted it on my domestic machine, using both a walking foot and free motion.  I am very pleased with how it turned out.

Close-up of applique block

Close-up of pieced block

Close-up of border

Quilt displayed at Christmas