Winter Wonderland Quilt Top

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Well. I did not finish this quilt top in a week, but I finished in about two weeks. I call that a win. 🙂

This is the first Christmas / winter quilt top I’ve made. Every year when we pull out the Christmas decorations, I wish I had a Christmas quilt to pull out to throw on the couch. My children are still young, and the more special Christmas decor we set out for our home, the better. They love it.

Since Christmas is over, I plan on leaving this one out until the first day of spring. Keep reading down below to hear my plans for making this the ultimate winter quilt.

But first, here are a few of the details on this quilt top. It finished around 70 inches by 90 inches. (It’s not quite as long as a twin sized quilt.)

I used a pattern called Picnic Patch by It’s Sew Emma. What do I love about this pattern? It is so suitable for larger print fabrics. I wanted to feature the prints on these fabrics, and the large almost ten inch blocks were perfect for fussy cutting and displaying the birds on the fabrics.

Most of the fabrics in this quilt are from the Charley Harper line called Winter Wonderland. (The Charley Harper fabrics are produced by Birch Fabrics.) They are organic cotton. Some of these fabrics are from other lines, but they are all Charley Harper prints.

I purchased all of my fabrics from Sew Organic Fabrics. I haven’t purchased a lot of fabric from there, but I must say I was thoroughly impressed with their customer service and communication. I had ordered this fabric as a preorder, and Teresa, the owner, was overly helpful in communicating the arrival of the fabric and the shipping date. I appreciated her thoughtfulness.

What’s going to make this quilt the best Christmas / cuddle / winter quilt ever?

I’m going to attempt to back this quilt with cuddle fabric by Shannon Fabrics. I’ve read that backing a quilt with cuddle fabric makes it irresistible, but I’ve also heard that working with cuddle fabric (sometimes called minky) is often highly frustrating. I read one blogger compare it to working with jersey. It can move and slip a lot creating puckers and creases everywhere. I’m hoping with lots of basting spray and pins, I can keep things relatively stable. I’ll be sure to let you know in about two weeks after we are done basting it.

If you want to read up a bit more on the cuddle fabric and see another quilt with it, check out Then Came June’s post. Her quilt was my inspiration. I plan on using batting and quilting this quilt (which is a bit different than how Meghan did it), but her experience convinced me to go ahead and give the soft backing a try.

Like Meghan’s quilt, I am going to attempt to do a quilt without a binding like I did here for this baby quilt. Am I in for a failed project? Possibly. But if it doesn’t fail, I think it will be a great quilt.