christmas in february?

back in early december i got the hankerin' for a large, cuddly, christmas quilt to snuggle my family in. i set to work immediately... and then the christmas crazies stepped in and life got busy with shopping, decorating, wrapping, baking and eating, eating, eating. and the quilt got pushed on the back burner. i had the vision of an allover, scrappy, postage stamp quilt like this one. but after fiddling around with fabric placement i realized that i just had to have some organization. to me, it looks cleaner and more striking. so i cut a few more tiny 2.5 inch squares and sewed that thing up. which kinda took forever. and then i realized something else...this was meant to be a wall hanging. it could've been that i just didn't want to cut one more square and it could've been that i'm just pretty dang impatient but overall i just really liked it the way it was and just couldn't imagine adding more squares and possibly messing up the good thing i had going. 

so the project that was meant to be a quilt for 2012 is now a wall hanging for christmas 2013. it's just the way it is. i still need to quilt and bind this cute little guy but i seriously love it and can't wait to hang it above my mantle in... oh... ten months. (and please excuse the terrible lighting/photo quality in these photos. i'm still trying to figure out ISO and all that jazz and i'd go outside but it's just too dang cold! i know you understand.)

oh and this is how jake feels about my quilting obsessions. :)