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For our third make of Christmas we are replaying our tutorial for Ribbon Candy, a modern, fat quarter friendly holiday quilt that is perfect for using up all your extra Christmas fabric or that holiday fat quarter bundle you just had to have.

About half of the quilt is strip pieced so it goes quickly, it really shows off large prints well and a neutral strip between every fabric means you can pack a lot of fabrics in while still giving the eye a place to rest.

Ribbon Candy was originally designed as part of the Stashin’ with Stephanie Club ...

Now don’t get me wrong, I’ll be the first person to say we should not rush the seasons and I don’t believe that it is appropriate to put up Christmas decorations until after Thanksgiving. Christmas is a beautiful and wonderful time of year, but that doesn’t mean I want four plus months of it. But those of us who are in a crafting lifestyle know that the season does need to start a little earlier in our sewing rooms if we want to be done in time to enjoy our creations during the season. So in ...

I love the quilts that look complicated and difficult. They make me feel good about my piecing skills. What’s even better is when they aren’t difficult or complicated to piece. That is what I like about Tabatha’s modern Christmas quilt. It looks like a fun mix of interlocked blocks, but there is an order that makes this quilt much simpler than you would think.

Modern Scrappy Feel

This beautiful jumble of Christmas colors has such a fun scrappy feel, but this was not a stash buster. You can tell that the fabrics coordinate beautifully which gives it ...