Every quilter knows the December problem: the handmade holiday gift pictured in October becomes a race against the calendar by Thanksgiving. The simplest fix is to start with a kit — fabrics already gathered, project already sized, theme already decided. The FA LA LA Christmas Quilt Kit, sold from High Country Quilts through Linda's Electric Quilters, is built on that idea: it bundles what you need to make a festive holiday quilt top in a manageable lap size, so your sewing time goes into piecing instead of shopping.
What This Kit Makes
The finished quilt measures 45 inches by 54 inches — a versatile holiday size. It is big enough to drape over a sofa as seasonal decorating, warm enough as a lap quilt under the tree, and small enough to hang or fold at the foot of a bed. It is also a very giftable size: substantial enough to feel generous, compact enough to finish, wash, and wrap without a heroic effort.
What's in the Kit — and What to Have Ready
According to the listing, this quilt kit bundles everything you need to make the 45 by 54 inch holiday quilt top, in a Christmas theme. A kit like this removes the two steps that stall most seasonal projects: hunting down coordinated holiday fabrics and calculating how much of each one to buy. The selection work is done before the box reaches your sewing room.
Note what the listing describes: it is a kit for the quilt top. Backing, batting, and binding are not specified among the included items, so plan to choose those separately. A seasonal print or a coordinating solid both work for backing; choose a piece a few inches larger than the top on all sides for layering and quilting room. Also have your piecing basics ready — rotary cutter, ruler and mat, pins or clips, coordinating thread, and a good iron.
Skill Level and Time Commitment
A pre-selected kit in this size is a friendly project for a confident beginner who is comfortable with the foundations of piecing: accurate cutting, a consistent quarter-inch seam allowance, careful pressing, and working through a project in order. Intermediate quilters will move through it more quickly and can focus on the finishing details instead. Because the fabrics arrive coordinated, the learning curve here is about construction, not design decisions.
At 45 by 54 inches, the top is a realistic one-to-two-weekend project in sessions: one to organize and cut, a few to piece and assemble, then separate time for layering, quilting, and binding. Count backwards from your deadline — if this is a gift, aim to finish the top at least a week before wrapping, so binding never becomes a Christmas Eve activity.
Tips for Success with a Holiday Kit
Start earlier than feels necessary. Seasonal projects compete with the busiest weeks of the year. Starting while the calendar is still calm turns this into an enjoyable make instead of a deadline sew.
Keep prints pointing the right way. Holiday fabrics often have a direction — trees, words, and figures that look best upright. Before final assembly, lay the whole top out, step back, and check that nothing is upside down; take a phone photo of the layout to sew from.
Press as you go. Crisp pressing keeps seams nesting neatly and helps a smaller quilt top lie flat and square, which makes layering and quilting noticeably easier later.
Let the finishing stay simple. Straightforward quilting that follows the piecing, or a gentle all-over design, secures the layers without competing with the Christmas fabrics — and simple quilting is also what gets a gift quilt finished on time.
A Quilt That Sings the Season
That is the appeal of this kit: a festive theme, a gathered set of materials for the top, and a finished size that works as hard at decorating as it does at gift-giving. Pick your backing, clear a couple of weekends, and let the sewing be the relaxing part of the holidays.
Shop the FA LA LA Christmas Quilt Kit at Linda's Electric Quilters.
