Christmas Challenge Quilt

I have finished a wall hanging for Christmas and it has gone to a good home.  It was one of 2 prizes in a raffle held within my work group to raise money for Water for Kids.  As public health people we all understand how important clean water is and what a huge difference it makes to disease rates.  The other prize was some wonderful pottery.

I quilted part of the quilt after attending a Trunk Show by Karen McTavish.  Some how my usual passable meandering became quite an intricate pattern.

The quilt was made for a quilt guild challenge and the blue fabric was the piece I received and it told me it had to be a sky in a Christmassey landscape.  So a sky it became.  I amazed myself by actually drawing a passable reindeer and appliqueing them into the sky.  I avoided trying to give Santa a face by calling it North to Home.  Santa is dozing inside the hood of his coat and trusting the reindeer to get him home safely.

Here are 2 pictures.