Slow Sunday Stitching -- The Gingerbread Men Quilt

I have finished all twelve of my gingerbread men and formed them into a table topper top.

I put it on my longarm frame so that I could baste it.  I love it when the back is nice and flat.  This is a great place to do it.  You can see the machine stitches running through their bellies and close to the block seams.  How I will quilt it is yet to be determined.  I'm even considering taking the longer route and hand stitching them!  I'm not sure if I completely know what to do for that...  It could be a great learning experience.  I could just throw it on my domestic machine and free-motion quilt it...  We shall see.  It's a small enough project to throw in my sew-to-go bag.

I was going to decorate them with rickrack and buttons, but now I'm not going to.  I like them just they way they are.  I did pick out a cute striped fabric for the binding that will be enough.

The good news is that the little gingerbread man table topper I have been working on at school is now a complete topper.  The bad news is the it is too cold in Ohio to operate my longarm.  (It is kept in our other house that is not fully heated.  I would have to run the fuel oil furnace for about five days to get the head of my longarm to a consistent temperature.  At the colder temperature the stitches skip.)  My longarm is covered up for now.  I will be piecing away quilt tops until spring.

I'm linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.