Favorite Holiday Treats...Both Tasty and Tasteful

TASTY TREATS

Both TASTY AND TASTEFUL

My Favorite Christmas Quilt

Tasty Cupcakes come and go...that's expected.

Tasteful Table Settings for Christmas Dinner can be duplicated.

But this Christmas Quilt was a Once In A Lifetime experience and now a Forever Family Heirloom.

Here's it's Story...

Back In The Day when the InterNet was new and DialUp was what we knew, I joined  'Quilt Talk'.

It was...what we now call...an Online Quilt Website that was like a

DotCom, Blog, YahooGroup, ChatRoom, Friends and Followers all Rolled Up in One! 

 

In the Summer of 1998 I signed up for a Christmas Block Swap.

By the end of the summer I had Swapped Blocks with Twenty-five Quilters from all over the world.

(click on the blocks above to enlarge to see the signed blocks and their origins)

I made 25 Ohio Star with the Fussy Cut Santa Blocks...first one in the strip...and sent one to each of the 24 Quilters in my Swap Group.  In return, I received a block from each of them.  We each assembled the blocks in our own design and quilted it to our individulal taste.  At that time, I was a Newbie Longarm Quilter and hesitated to machine quilt this very special quilt top.  But I wanted it finished for the Swap Show and for Christmas, so I put it on 'QuiltALottie' and did my FIRST CUSTOM Quilting job.  It took what seemed forever, but I learned so much and found that I really enjoyed Custom Quilting. 

Linking To:

Beverly's How Sweet the Sound

Holiday Treats Pink Saturday

and

Claudia's Mockingbird Hill Cottage

A Favorite Thing #15

 Happy Holiday Treat Baking and Quilting!!!