Streak of Lightning
Finished my first Christmas quilt. (Actually, it is the second - the first was a gift for a friend back in the pre-digital camera days.) I started back in the fall of 2008 with a charm pack of a Mary Englebreit Christmas line and made half-square triangles and quickly settled on a streak of lightning-setting and then put it away when I lost direction after Christmas. I found a jelly roll on sale sometime in 2009 but didn't have much of a plan beyond thinking I might use it for borders or binding. Joy in the New Year inspired me to just finish it already in Fall 2009 and a year later, here we are. Finished is better than perfect, but I'd like this to be a little closer to perfect. It looked like it would lie flat but once I hung it on the wall it is kind of wonky. Oh well. Made from a charm pack and a couple of strips from a jelly roll, original pattern, machine pieced and quilted.
