Nut cracker quilt
 

My daughter and I appliqued and pieced this while she was visiting over Thanksgiving week. We completed the top in three days - what fun. The pattern is from Amy Bradley. Since she left I used a design off my sewing machine and tack quilted the background, sashing and border and today put the last stitch in the binding. I am so thankful to have a daughter who enjoys quilting as much as I do.

OMG! That is the cutest thing.

Great quilt....in such a short amount of time!!

very nicely done

That one is very cute. i'd not seen this before. great colors too!!

very quilt nice job!!!!

That is really, really cute.

beautiful quilt even better wonderful memories

Great quilt. I love how that chevron fabric looks on the binding

It is sooooo cute! You and your daughter did a wonderful job. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful quilt

That is absolutely darling. You both did a wonderful job on it. Great color choices too.

Very cute indeed. Great variety in the faces and hats/beards etc.
Love that black/white chevron border and binding. So Christmas-y!

that is just too cute

I love it, grammer ann! Can you tell us more about tacking it.....e.g. what stitch did you use and how do you do just one design as a tack? I'm thinking this might be the way to do some minky backed throws I'm making. TIA!! Polly

That is as cute as can be! Made even more special that your DD helped make it! I love nutcrackers, so if you get tired of it, I'll gladly take it off your hands!! LOL. Very striking colors, too!

Delightful, and such a joy to share productive time with our daughter.

Looks like the two of you had a fun and productive weekend! :)

Oh man, I love this! I collect Nutcrackers and I would love to collect this. Great job for both of you. BrendaK

ooooooh! Love it, love it, love it! GOOD JOB!

I've never been a big fan of nutcrackers, but your quilt is adorable. I may have to change my mind. lol

I have a Pfaff 7570. Among the decorative stitches built into the machine is one that looks like a snow flake. It would normally stitch in a continuous row of snow flakes, but my machine has a button that when pressed will stitch out only one repeat of the pattern and stop. This machine was new in 1995 and I am not familiar with other or newer machines whether they can do the same. It does a locking stitch at the end of the repeat so I just moved about 1 1/2 inch away and started another. I just cut the threads between each move, maybe I should have buried the threads but I did not. This quilt will only be out a short time each year so I don't see it having to be washed often.
Thank you for looking and for all of your kind comments.

What a treasure you created with your daughter. It is perfect.

I absoluyely adore it!

I love it!!!

That is so cute! I love Amy Bradley patterns.

I really like it. The nutcrackers make me smile. It will always be a wonderful memory for the two of you.

I love it!!!!!!!

Great job! Love your quilt!!

That's fabulous! I love it!
Maureen

Wow that is really cute

Pat in MN

Very nice and what a wonderful memory you have of piecing it with your daughter.

You two did a great job, sew cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow that makes me want to smile!

That is just too cute - love it.

I have this pattern and am working on the penguins now. The top is pieced, just need to quilt, bind and add the button eyes! Very nice job on the nutcrackers!

Wow! I figured you must have that capability. I have a Necchi Supernova Julia that dates to abt 1961-71
that can do that too with her cams, but she needs cleaning and maybe some adjusting. I may just get her out and see if she's ready enough to go! I don't have a snowflake cam for her but there must be one that would work. I don't need one more machine but will have to check out that Pfaff 7570! I do love your quilt!!! Thanks, Polly

Gulp!!! Checked ebay and there are several up now, from $500 to 1500 so I guess I'll try to get my Julia up and going. That machine looks awesome!! One ad says it sold new in 2000 for $5K.

Wonderful disign! beautiful quilt! My daughter and I just had a quilting week together over Thanksgiving. What a blessing!

Oh how nice is that!!