Thank Goodness It's Finished friday! Guest Host

This week, I am very excited to be guest hosting Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday! I will be sharing my finish and inviting each of you to link up your finishes as well. Then, settle back and see the finishes of others.

I am happy about my finish this week. This lap-sized quilt has been a long time in the making. It is a UFO from about four years ago. I finally finished quilting it this week. It will be in time for Christmas! I call Cup of Christmas Cheer.

Cup of Christmas Cheer Quilt

Cup of Christmas Cheer in a tumbler quilt. For the tumbler pieces, I used a charm pack of Let It Snow by Windham Fabrics. It was very easy to cut the tumblers accurately and quickly using the Tumbler Template from the Missouri Star Quilt Co. I supplemented the charm pack with a few tumblers from my stash that worked nicely with the charm pack. The border and binding is from my stash as well.

I found the tumblers easy to sew. There were no Y-seams. I simply sewed the tumbers in rows and then sewed the rows together. I ironed each row alternating ironing to the right with ironing to the left. This helped me sew the match points accurately when sewing the rows together and helped reduce bulk. I decided to add a border, so I trimmed the edges of the tumbler center to make a straight line edge on the sides of the quilt top..

Cup of Cheer Quilt on My New Quilt Display Ladder

As many of your know, my husband and I own JANDA Bend Christmas Tree Farm. We are located in northeastern Oklahoma. The farm is choose-and-cut, which means that families come to our farm to pick out their Christmas Tree and cut it down themselves. it has become a tradition for many families. We have a small Christmas Shop on the farm as well. This year, I will be selling quilts and quilted items in the shop, so my husband built me a quilt display ladder. I really like it! It will help me display quilts in a small space. Directions for the ladder can be found at Sydney Makes Stuff. The photo above shows my finished quilt on the display ladder.
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​I quilted the quilt top using my longarm. I decided to quilt in the ditch around the tumbler blocks and then to free-motion quilt in the borders. Straight line quilting is a challenge for me on my Gammill. For some reason, vertical straight lines are easier for me than horizontal straight lines, so I loaded quilt with the longest length horizontal instead of vertical. 

Quilting Detail

For the backing I used Festive Fun by Lynn Anderson for RJR Fabrics. See photo below. 

​I enjoyed making this quilt, but I am glad that it is finished. It was time.
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Cup of Christmas Cheer Quilt with Backing

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Now it's your turn!

Click on the blue button to link up! The button takes you to an external page where you will see the link ups of others and be able to link up your finish as well. After you link up, please take some time to look at other people's finishes and leave some encouraging comments. Everyone likes to read encouraging comments!

Finally, I hope that you will join me for my new weekly, linky party. It is called Pieceful Sunday. Every Sunday you can link up your completed, or in-progress piecing projects to share them with others. You can also see the pieced quilts or quilted items that others are working on. I am hoping that this linky party will be a place of fun, encouragement, and community. Link up at ​JANDA Bend Quilts on Sundays!

​Thanks for joining me and Happy Quilting!

This post was originally published at JANDA Bend Quilts.