Christmas Cheer is a pattern by an Australian designer Janelle Wind and has been in my pattern box for several years. I'd originally made some a few years ago, and I don't know why I haven't made more of these, as they look so much nicer than a normal bottle bag! I used some festive fabrics from the Scandinavian Christmas 2 collection by Lynette Anderson Designs for this project which I'd bought from Cross Patch, along with the variegated red Valdani perle 12wt thread that was used for the hand embroidery...
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...fabrics from the same collection were used for the lining and the handle, and the front flap is trimmed with ric-rac. The machine quilting was kept very simple, using a variegated green King Tut quilting thread in a cross hatch design...
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...here's the finished article, with a bottle of fizz inside, before it was given as a special gift for Christmas. I'm planning on making a few more of these ready for 2021 when hopefully we'll be able to spend more time celebrating with our loved ones.
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