301 Country Christmas Quilt Blocks

301 festive country style quilt blocks to turn into projects for your home as gifts.

Quilters will love filling their homes to the brim with holiday spirit! Use simple patchwork and fusible appliqué to ring in the season with a touch of country style. Create 15 fun projects, from runners and place mats for sprinkling holiday magic across the table to a bounty of quilts featuring the season's coolest characters - snowmen! Stitchers can choose their speed: Fast: wall quilts, an advent calendar, and a gingerbread candle mat Faster: place mats, table toppers, and lots of jolly little quilts Quick as a wink: bowl fillers, mistletoe ornaments, and a skinny snowman door hanging Top off projects with a blizzard of button embellishments to make the season bright.

Projects included: Old Saint Nick -- Santa Sampler -- Sew many Santas -- Christmas spirits -- Deck the halls -- March of the toy soldiers -- Nutcracker suite -- Trim-a-tree -- Tis the season -- Christmas sampler stockings -- Cookie cutter Christmas -- Christmas stocking quilts -- Snowman samplers -- Pine tree lodge ornaments -- Christmas cabin tree skirt -- Mantel tree quilt -- Pine tree lodge stockings and pillows -- Field and stream -- Holiday hostess set -- Gifts for the hostess -- Teacher's pet -- Tooltime -- Hearts and buttons -- Techniques for quick country quilting.

Whether used for warming up the hearth or tucked into a cozy corner, these 31 charming quilting projects help turn Christmas into a country-style celebration. Use them to adorn the home, to make something special for family or friends, or just to bask in the old-fashioned feeling of holidays past. Each project, photographed in a Christmas setting that will inspire decorating ideas, includes additional quilt-block patterns for making sets or multiple presents. Stitch up some Santa Stockings to hang by the chimney with care; Star Ornaments to enhance the tree; a sweet Snow Angel or Bless This House Pillow; Peace, Love, and Joy gift tags; plus journals, keepsake boxes, pictures, and frames.

Practical, inspiring guidebook includes heart-warming Christmas lore and fascinating quilt history, a gallery of 46 beautiful quilts (including Feathered Star, Pine Cone, Rose Wreath, Poinsettia, Christmas Tulips, and Christmas Pine Tree), plus patterns and instructions for making 20 different blocks. 60 full-color photographs. 73 patterns.

Forty quick-and-easy quilting projects make it possible to create the perfect holiday gift for everyone on your list. Filled with homespun warmth and inspiration, these charming projects include heirloom-quality tree ornaments, pillows, decorative boxes, quilts of various sizes, and framed pictures -- all of which are sure to become treasured keepsakes. Featuring captivating full-color photographs that showcase each beautiful, quilted piece and a handy nine-step how-to section that offers all the instructions needed for every project, this festive and heartwarming collection is imbued with true Christmas spirit. From the whimsy of a Gingerbread Man ornament to the timeless message of a Peace on Earth pillow, these special gifts are as enjoyable to make as they are to receive.