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Monday, November 18, 2013

A Little Christmas Spirit

It all started last January...
 
My cousins Amy and Mike contacted to me to ask if I would make their girls Christmas stockings. Little did they know that the last few Christmases I haven't had much Christmas spirit. Since my Mom passed away Christmas has been difficult for me. Of course I agreed right away, but then I spent 9 months both looking for the 'right' fabrics for my vision and also procrastinating a bit.
 
I never did find the right fabrics so I went onto plan B. 
 
Plan B turned out pretty fabulous I think!
 
 
I am so pleased with them. The snowflake stocking was a paper pieced snowflake I had saved many years ago on my computer. I have no idea where it originally came from. I added a bit of decorative stitching, some white rick rack and a big white button!
 
 
The stitched Santa block came from Red Brolly (Thanks!!!)
 
And finally a view of how I create...
 
 
My whole cutting table looked like this!
 
So back to my story... I want to thank my cousins for this little gift of Christmas spirit that they brought back into my life (even without realizing it). I feel a little like the Grinch except so less green...making these Christmas stockings has put a little Christmas spirit back into my life...and I am sure my heart grew three sizes when I finished them!
 
Back to Christmas gift making...
 
Happy Stitching!
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

An Obvious Choice

I started to big stitch my wagon wheel quilt, but I am just kind of winging it! I started quilting the spokes in the ditch, but after just a 1/4 of a block done I realized that was not going to make me happy.
 
 
Next I stitched down the center of each spoke. Much better!
 
Now I have to pull out all the "in the ditch" stitches.
 
In the meantime, Christmas gift making has begun...lots of secrets to keep this next 2 months!
 
Happy Stitching!