Christmas scenes

Rag Garland over fire place.

 One of my favorite ornaments, made by my daughter in 2001. He has lost his eyes, but I still love him.

 Small Nutcracker

The best ever Flying Pigs!



It's Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!!!!!!!

Paint Job

 Family room all decked out! New paint job and decorated tree! Yippee!!!!!!

Rescued!

 We had to do it! By now you know that I have a Nutcracker collection. Yesterday my wonderful husband and I went out to one of my favorite shops ever, Ten Thousand Villages. There's are thrift shop in the same center that we visit sometimes so we decided to check it out also.  

Look what we found! This poor little follow has certainly had a hard life. He has no hair, it's all completely gone. It looks like he's had some injury also, as evidenced by the nail in his back.

He was on sale for $.50. So we had to bring him home. We'll clean him up, fix his injury and even give him hair plugs!

And he'll have 30 or more new friends to play with!

T.G.I.F. !

This really is a T.G.I.F.! We're finished painting and I got some decorating done!

But today's post is about finishes in the sewing room. This is a little wrap I made for crochet hooks. I'd made one for myself a few years back and my sister requested one for her best friend. I'm sorry there are no pictures of the inside because I was having trouble with the red fabric and the flash.







This is a hat I crocheted for one of my sister's grands. I altered the pattern a little. The original was a color block thing I didn't really like.

 Here is best use of scraps ever! Even the tiniest of scraps. This is my rag garland! It's almost finished, only a few more feet to go.
It is so much fun to make my daughter even joined in on the fun.







Excuse the furry feet in this picture I guess Dusti wanted to join in on the fun also!I will post pictures of the paint job and the Christmas decorations soon.

Have a great weekend!

Nothing Finished!

 I am so behind! This time last year I had cookies baked by now!
I have a large family, two brothers, two sisters and lots of nieces and nephews and greats.
My sisters and brothers and I take turns having Christmas eve dinner. We go in age order, so as I'm the oldest last year was my turn again. I cleaned decorated and baked and cooked for weeks.
My brother-in-law took this picture because he was so impressed with the cookies.( he likes sweets, so that's not hard)
This year with the painting disrupting everything, I hope to make my first batch of  cookies today! Maybe?
On top of everything, I took before pictures of the rooms before we stated painting and I can't find them.
This is a picture of last years Christmas tree. I haven't decided on the color scheme for this year. Stay tuned. I hope to have pictures by next week. Unless  something else needs to be painted!

Last of the Painting!

Christmas Bazaar is this weekend! I'm adding these books to the ones I made before.  

I've made a few more potholders. There are two of these made from Kate Spain's 12 Days of Christmas. The mug rug above also includes 12 Days of Christmas.

This set has a dishcloth to match. I couldn't get it to photograph any better. 

Ok, back to painting!,

Happy Monday

Not much sewing going on around here this weekend! My wonderful husband and I painted the kitchen and family rooms. We started Saturday morning and as of 9:30 pm Sunday night still have one wall to go. The fun part hasn't even started yet. I still have to put stuff back. Like the collection of junk stuff that lives on top of my kitchen cabinets. ( you know plants, chickens, baskets oh my!) 

On Saturday I received my box from Connecting Threads filled with thread and all kinds of fabric. I hit the Cyber Monday sale. CT had 50% off all pre-cuts. Boy did I have fun. I got the 2 charm packs above called Sweet Remembrance. 

I got this Christmas fabric called Wrap It Up. This was  my original reason to buy fabric. I needed Christmas fabric. Lol

I got these beautiful solids! 24 fat quarters. 

And I got this dots and stripes 32 piece fat quarter pack. I can't wait to find a few minutes to play with my new fabrics.

Swap Blocks

Although they haven't quite made it into a quilt yet, I thought you might like to see the blocks I received last year. The East Coast group on Quilt With Us had a wonky star and house swap. The only restrictions were a cream or white back round.

The first two pictures are some of the blocks I sent out. 

The next three are the blocks I received. 

Wayback Wednesday

I know I've mentioned here before that the Log Cabin block is my favorite. Today's Wayback Wednesday is a wall hanging I made to hang in my laundry room. Here is picture of it right after completion on my sewing room door. It was made in 2004 and I chose these colors as the paint for the laundry room was sort of a hot chocolate color. I really like the way this quilt came out. The blocks are 6 inch (my favorite) and the center block is paper pieced. All of these fabrics were pulled from my stash.

Here are a couple of the Christmas potholders I've been making. Some for the bazaar and some for my Etsy. I'm not really a fan of the normal red/green Christmas combo theme, but some are so my sister said I should include these. As I was making these I discovered I really don't have a lot of Christmas prints. So I had to buy some at the Cyber Monday sale at Connecting Threads.


Ok, it's back to work for me. I still have a lot of sewing to finish before Christmas!