You may have seen this on the Bearbottom Facebook page already – but in an effort to have some Seasonal items in the shop in time for December, Mom and I having a little Christmas in July – or Yule-y – if you will. For the rest of the month we’ll be focusing on Christmas-y quilt projects.

Mom’s already got a few in the works. I’m hoping to complete three small (lap-size) tops by the end of the month. Of course, July is a pretty busy month in general so that may be hoping for too much.

But Burton helped me get off to a good start. We decided to start off with a chandelier quilt, using some of our leftover Christmas Gnome fabric and some fat quarters I had in the stash.

While the Chandelier quilt looks complicated, it’s made of one block and it’s SUPER easy. It’s also super quick. In a long afternoon we had all the blocks cut and sewn together.

And we even ended up adding two more fabrics into the mix because four just wasn’t enough for a good visual variety.

But that was enough for one day, so we left top assembly to the next afternoon.

I’ve gotten quite good about on-point assembly. The hardest part is not mixing up the order of your blocks. We had to do a little ripping a couple times, but overall the top assembly went pretty well.

The Chandlier pattern is just perfect for a Christmas quilt…

It’s almost like strings of dangling ornaments. Here’s a closer look at all our fabrics.

I’ve got a couple options for back and binding, but I’m going to wait until I finish my other tops to decide. Now this weekend is fast approaching – we have an engagement on Saturday… but I’m hoping I can keep Sunday free to churn out another top – stay tuned!