Another finished project

 Hello, everyone.

Last year, for much of the year, I was attending a Block of the Month class at my local quilting shop. The quilt was the embroidered Kimberbell Jingle All The Way quilt, a decorative quilt with many different blocks.

It's finished.

The whole thing, draped over the living room sofa.

Detail of the cute little houses. (These are "whimsical" houses, which seems to mean that they're obviously designed to look like brightly colored falling-down shacks. Whatever.)

The Christmas tree on the right is a machine-embroidered "chenille" applique. The "ornaments" are heart shaped red Mother of Pearl beads from the stash--there weren't any suitably tiny red buttons in the house.

The light string along the house roofs is free-standing lace with "Mylar" plastic inside. 

The wreaths on the doors are a fringe stitch embellished with a few red seed beads. 

The doorknobs  are little buttons, embellished a bit more with beads on the top. The only buttons small enough and a good color were four-hole buttons, and I wanted to cover up the holes. Thus the seed beads (from stash) on top of the buttons.

The row of Flying Geese below the green house is an in-the-hoop block. As is the green "starlight mint" on the right.

At the bottom of the big picture, the snow globes have sequins and/or glitter inside of the plastic globes.

This has been a tour de force as quilts go, I have never done this before. I learned a lot.

I added a sleeve behind the top binding so it can be hung on a rod during the Christmas season.