pastimesquiltdesign

When my 3 kids were small we started a tradition where we placed elves around the house the 1st of December and told the kids "Be Good, Santa's Elves are Watching". Now that my oldest son has 2 children of his own, he asked me to design a quilt depicting our family tradition. It was a lot of fun to design.
I just looked around the house for hiding places to put the elves and then turned them into quilt blocks. I used a curved piecing border and added red buttons for the holly berries and red bells on the ends of the elves hats. I have the 3 quilts done for the kids and am now working on mine. This way each family will be able to remember and carry on our fun tradition.