The Christmas Oz
The Christmas Oz
2008
Pattern: Lancaster as seen in Sept/Oct Quiltmaker
Machine stitched, hand quilted
My daughter asked for a new larger quilt for Christmas. No options given for color or design. Looking through a Keepsake Quilters catalog in the children’s section: Wizard of Oz print fabric.
The fabric was a panel of movie stills – the largest 4″s square. I pulled out a pattern I had made before that makes good use of large scale prints. Lanacaster as seen in the Sept/Oct ‘03 issue of Quiltmaker.
Order the material. I like using this shop for mail order, I put the check in the mail one day and it seems like the order arrives the next. I have also been into their shop in NH.
The fabric order was 2 panels, a montage, with yellow bricks, wicked witch, and ruby slippers. I had the fabric mentally in place and then it arrived!
First sign that maybe this wasn’t going to go as planned was an “oops” note from Keepsake. Seems the panel’s largest square was 16″ not 4″. I could send the fabric back – no questions asked. Instead I shuffled fabric, bought another yard of montage from Jo-Ann’s & viola a quilt top was born. This pattern is BIG squares & rectangles. After all that I ended up with enough extra fabric for the better part of a wall hanging. (Lemonade from Lemons with extra juice for a chaser)
So don’t be afraid to think outside the box – or square – who knows what you can craft!
