154. Christmas in the City

 At the end of 2014, I started working on Tula Pink's City Sampler, which has 100 blocks.

My idea was to start in the upper left corner with very low volume blocks with just a touch of red.

Gradually add more red to the blocks.

Then red and white blocks with a touch of green.

Decrease the amount of white and have mostly red and some green. (Oops, where did that thread come from?)

And then work in the opposite way to the lower right hand corner. Mostly green with some red.

Gradually add some white, while working mostly with green.

Eliminate the red.

And end up with very low volume white and green blocks.

You know how you have a vision but you are never quite sure if the reality will match it your expectations? In this case, I'm thrilled with the results.

Even the back--I used up some of my favorite Christmas prints.

And added a peppermint stripe binding.

You may be familiar with the fact that I photograph nearly all of my quilts in front of our little shed in the backyard. But Mark and I took this quilt out for a fun photo op. 

One morning I was headed out of the house and walked past the dining room. Everything seemed just right to snap a quick picture. For some reason, this photo got some major traction on Instagram that year. 

It was reposted on the instagram feed of Make Modern Magazine and ended up with nearly 6,000 "likes"!! So I repost it every year. Haha. 

After seeing Christmas in the City, another quilter made her version using patchwork squares rather than pieced blocks. It's a much faster way to achieve the same idea and it's so very pretty.

It seemed the perfect quilt to photograph with the Christmas red classic car. It was in my calendar, Quilts and Classics 2021, for the month of December.

Details:

Pattern: City Sampler by Tula Pink

Size: 60" x 60"

Blocks: 100 scrappy 6" blocks

Pieced by: Me.

Machine quilted by: Darby Myers