What a wonderful Christmas we had at my house. As always Santa was good to everyone! Here is the completed quilt I worked on right up to the day before Christmas...

A Dressmaker's Quilt

As always a beautiful quilt is so hard to sell or give away. This quilt top was made over the summer but was not completed right away. I needed backing and could not decide what to do with the quilt. I had two or three people who were interested and I wanted to decide which backing was going to be used. I always love to pick out the backing. There are so many choices it's a tough decision.

My brother dropped by my house in early fall and asked what I planned to do with this quilt. I didn't think a lot about it until my Mom called and told me she wanted to purchase it for him for Christmas. I told her fine, I would get it ready.  I had to complete two baby quilts for my niece's before I work on this quilt. I quilted this with small swirls. It came down to the wire. The week before Christmas with orders coming in every day on Embroidery work and making sales on my Etsy shop, I worked every day, all day long and into the night. completing this quilt the day before Christmas.

It turned out as expected, BEAUTIFUL!

I ended up not getting this posted as quickly as I had hoped. Unfortunately I came down with the colds that were going around here at Christmas time. I had planned on going to see to beautiful niece's born in November and December, but I didn't want to share my cold with them.

I celebrated the sale of this quilt by ordering the KitchenAid 600 Professional for myself. It arrived today...yeah! Now I want to run to the grocery store and buy something that needs to be mixed up...I just can't decide what to get. Here is my perfect new mixer

Now what to make...if anyone has some really good mixer recipes I would love some.

Tomorrow I'm back to work as a school nurse. Oh well the fun two weeks off had to come to an end at some point.