Wow both quilts very nice Marianna!

Enjoy your holiday!

Marianne I love your Christmas tree and wish you and yours and every one on TQS, a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year.
Pam in Scotland

It's beautiful, lots of lovely quilting. Enjoy the peace and Happy Christmas to all.

Love your Christmas tree, Marianne! Happy holidays to you and yours as well as everyone here!

Beautiful!

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Andrée

My Christmas tree is ready for Christmas:


Front


and back
It has now got small decorations on it so it looks really festive. We don't usually have a Christmas tree (something we left behind when children flew the nest nearly 10 years ago) to great consternation for people who happen to visit us over the festive period and I have meant for years to make something that will reassure family and friends that we are celebrating the time of year we just do not need a tree in order to do so. It is funny that the children are perfectly all right with our choice it is the rest of the family and friends who think we are either grumpy (which is true of course) or cannot afford a tree and all the trimmings and feel terribly sorry for us. We love our quiet holiday period with lots of candles and few stars and hearts scattered here and there. A few mince pies and mini puddings get consumed too.
Hope everybody will enjoy their holidays as much as we do I have an appointment with a rag quilt over the holidays. Who knows I could be back with just one more finish in 2014
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody reading the forum.
Marianne

Lovely work Marianne and Brenda.

Marianne and Brenda! Well done!

Brenda, aren't pineapple quilts fun? I really like your pinks and the allover design was just what this quilt needed. I'll have to look into longarm rental--might be a good option for me since I like to quilt but don't have the space for a longarm machine but get spoiled with my sister's longarm when I visit her. Great idea!

Marianne, this quilt is beautiful! I love the reds and hint of green--I could just imagine it in my living room for Christmas! Lovely, truly lovely!

Beverly, Brenda and Marianne. Thanks for sharing your quilts. They are gorgeous each one in its own way

Brenda your quilt is gorgeous. I was so interested to hear about your long arm class and renting the machine for a day - that sounds like the best play day ever. I live in Scotland and I don't think that there is anything like long arm classes and renting long arm machines here - I'm praying that someone on the forum will correct me and then I could have a dream day of a 3 hour long class on a long arm. Having said that ... I haven't used the BSR on my Bernina much/ever because it's easier to FMQ. Anyhoo your quilt is gorgeous.
Pam

Brenda, glad you persevered. Looking great. I love the idea of hiring a long arm for a day.

First of all - Thank you very much for all your kind comments on my quilt. So nice to talk to like-minded people

Beverley your redwork quilt is so pretty - I haven't done redwork since the 70ties - this quilt can almost convince me to brush up on those forgotten skills - maybe it is like riding a bike; you never really forget Although I could of course just digitise some of the old patterns and like Beverley go down that route. I really must make a row quilt next year; there are so many fun patterns on Pinterest.

Brenda I saw your quilt in the Pineapple topic - gorgeous quilt - what fun to try a longarm; I would be scared stiff in front of such a monster.
Thank you to everybody who shares their successes around the board. I need to check out Show and Tell when I find it. Can't wait to see all the 2014 BOM projects.
Back to my tree now or I spend another hour on the site - so much to see and explore so little time
Marianne