Christmas Tree Skirt

 I used the accuquilt die my mom gifted me for Christmas to make the tops of two 45"Christmas tree skirts months ago, and finally had some backing fabric (the other half of the watercolor dragon) to quilt one of them on the longarm. The other one is already quilted but needs binding (yuck) so I decided to finish this one today and learn from it so the nicer one will hopefully turn out better. The lesson I learned was that these are harder to make than quilts. And more time consuming! But somehow take just as much fabric. I don't understand! But, it did turn out nice! I don't remember the fabric line I used, but hopefully it'll come to me soon. 

Watercolor Dragon Quilt

I learned the burden of making backing mistakes this week. A separate, but no less grievous error than my Gingerbread Lane Swoon quilt left me with the same issue of a wrinkle in the backing of my quilt. I decided to build character and take out all of the stitches in the top three rows to fix my mistake. I knew that facing the consequences of my actions (not making sure the backing is being rolled evenly when the fabric is twice as large as the quilt) would prevent me from making this mistake again. It will. I spent more time taking out stitches than I did cutting out the fabric, sewing, stitching detail, and long arming (all version) of this quilt. LESSON LEARNED. The clamshell pantograph is absolutely unforgiving. 

Here is the final, completed version. It doesn't show up here but there is handstitching (sashiko) on all of the white borders, and around the binding, with ombre purple thread.