Have you ever made a quilt and it wasn’t quite right?  That’s what happened with this one.  A few years ago I made a wall hanging as a challenge quilt.  I had to use their specific fabrics and it had to be a specific size.  I used my brother’s Christmas tree field as inspiration.  There are big trees, little trees and lots of stumps from the trees he harvests every year at Christmas time.  As I look back,  I really should have put some holes in the ground from where he digs up trees for transplanting.  I liked the looks of the wallhanging, but the problem was it needed to be bigger to snuggle up in.

Seeing the buck behind the tree was special to my brother and his kids as they all deer hunt in that field and surrounding area.

Stuck at home, in this quartatine we find ourselves in, led me to removing the binding.  I couldn’t remove the border since the entire thing had been quilted.  So this quilter did as quilters do, I made more blocks and added them on one side and the top.  We’ve decided the original border that is now in the middle of the quilt is the driveway we use when out picking out our Christmas tree.

The quilting was the most difficult part of this remake as I had originally quilted it in a wavy line.  Now I had to line up my new wavy lines to match.

Another project completed during this stay-at-home order.  My brother called it an heirloom quilt, which I appreciated.  On to the next one, “Hen House” pattern by claire turpin.