Twas the Night Before Christmas Quilt Top in Progress

Last week, I finished a quilt and 2 latch hook projects. And I finally started this quilt top that was actually meant to be a child's soft book. I bought the Twas the Night Before Christmas soft book panel last year. When I went to buy some extra fabric last month to help me increase the size of the quilt, Hobby Lobby had these panels available, but I'm not sure they would still have it in stock locally. It isn't even listed on their website. So, if you're interested in making a project like this, I have notes listed below the picture beneath this paragraph. : )

twas the night before christmas fabric book panel

'Twas the Night Before Christmas fabric soft book panel by Susan Winget
Originally sold by Hobby Lobby stores but can also be found on Etsy and eBay.

When I bought this fabric, I knew I wanted to make a quilt instead of a book. Last week, I cut out the title page, picture pages, and story pages individually. Then because the book and story pages are aligned for a book, I had to re-arrange the picture pages to coincide with the story pages as a quilt layout. This was also somewhat of a mess, because the pages were different sizes due to the pictures on the picture pages taking up less space than the words and pictures on the story pages. So, yesterday, I spent the day adding a red border to each page and making them all 11 1/4" x 14 1/2" as you will see in the second picture below.

Fabric to use in twas the night before christmas quilt

Additional fabric shown that may or may not be used with the book panels. Some were already in my stash, and others I bought for the purpose of making this quilt. : )

borders on twas the night before Christmas panels

Book panels ready to use in the quilt

I'm designing the quilt top as I go and am very pleased with the completion of phase 1 - fixing the pages so they'll be the same size. It's going to be a very large quilt top by the time I finish adding the rows and columns between the pages as well as adding the title page section along the top. So, with that said, I'll post updates as I add more to the quilt top. I'm very excited about this project, so I hope you'll visit often to see the progress updates.

Have a blessed day,

Patricia

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