From The Sewing Room Today

 Here is the start of a new holiday quilt using the jelly roll called

Petites Maisons de Noel by Moda.  Chris D. from our quilt

quilt sent around a reminder for this weeks Outreach gathering

and with that sent out a new pattern as an attachment.

Since I had a jelly roll begging to be made into something

I decided to give Chris's pattern a try.  It's really super-simple.

You start with picking out 5 2-1/2" strips and sewing them together.

This is shown in the first photo.

 The next step after the strips are sewn together and pressed

is to cut them into 10-1/2" pieces.  You get 4 sets out of one 

strip set if you cut carefully.

 Now the fun begins by laying out the blocks in the

pattern I have shown above.  From there you sew the rows

across then you sew the row to row and

you are done.  Pretty simple and pretty quick.

 This is made by request of my sister for her mother-in-law.

I just need to sew on the top and bottom then it will

be ready for quilting and gluing on crystals.

 The bird blocks have fallen a little behind schedule

but will get done soon.