It has been a dream of mine for many years to give each family unit a Christmas quilt. This was the year! I began in November 2022 to make nine unique quilts using only fabrics from my holiday fabric stash - 3 bins. (I STILL have three bins!)
I packed each quilt in a decorative box because I wanted each recipient to have a way to store the quilt. I arrived at my SIL's early on Christmas Eve day to deliver the boxes and heaped them in a pile in the middle of the room. Then, after the usual family gift exchange, I had each family unit pick a number and we all gathered in the "quilt gift" room. Each designated family member was to choose a box and hold onto it till all boxes were chosen. When I gave the signal to open the boxes....
CHAOS!
It was WONDERFUL and everything I hoped it would be.
There were a few exceptions to the randomness of the numbers. My daughter Laura saw the Santa blocks when they were on the design wall and fell in love with them. She told me she wanted whatever that quilt turned out to be, so I gave it to her and the kids.
Nancy, my SIL, collects Santas and displays about 100 of them at Christmas. Because I had leftover Santa blocks, I decided to make a smaller version of Laura's.
My daughter Kim, who lives in California, chose hers while in CT during the summer. She said she had forgotten all about it by the time Christmas came around, so her quilt wound up being a surprise.
My sister Jean lives in Florida, so I made a special Florida-style Christmas quilt for her.
And I fudged the number-picking to make sure Pearl, my 5-year-old niece, picked the only quilt that was kid-friendly.
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