Paisley is having a very festive moment on this one. A single holiday print, deep evergreen swirling with cranberry, rosy pink, and antique gold paisleys, does all the heavy lifting, cut into sharp triangles that spin into big pieced stars and little hourglass blocks across a creamy white background. The stars come in all sizes, with small ones huddled in the corners like they are whispering about the big ones in the middle. With just two fabrics, the piecing reads crisp and old fashioned, like a quilt that has been to a lot of Christmas dinners. Funky Christmas fills all that cream with long swooping curves, loose loops, and fat teardrop curls that look suspiciously like paisleys themselves, so the quilting and the fabric showed up in matching outfits. Cream thread melts into the background and leaves the curls as soft, shadowy ripples. Elegant, with a wink.
