The forest animals are getting ready for the Winter Solstice! You can see how low the sun is in the sky in this photo taken mid-morning!

This was a quilt kit I picked up on sale. It is a past season fabric designed by Cori Dantini call “Winter News” from Blend Fabrics. The pattern is their Menagerie Quilt Pattern which can be used with other Blend Fabric designs. The kit had all the fabric needed to make the quilt, including backing and binding. That’s fairly unusual. All I had to add was the batting. Except….I modified the pattern and substituted the solid light green for the grey branch and berry fabric seen in the center row sashing. It’s beautiful fabric but just a bit too grey for me at this time of year!

I also deleted the top and bottom border on the quilt, making my quilt linear, with a more modern feel.

The backing is a wood-grain fabric. There were 3 yards of fabric in the quilt, plenty to make the back. But the wood grain would have being horizontal and I wanted it to be vertical. So I added a strip of left over animal fabric to make the backing wide enough, and I have enough food grain fabric left to back another little quilt. That’s a win-win!

You can see the wood grain backing here in the lower left corner.

Here’s a close up the fabric. Look carefully in the light blue fabric to see some forest animals hiding in the underbrush! So much fun!