Amber from A Little Bit Biased came over to my house today to deliver her donations for Operation Sunshine!
This is a GORGEOUS Christmas quilt top!
This family will Love having this cheery quilt this Christmas!
Amber also brought some cute little WIP’s! A table runner and some blocks that could be made up into another table runner or some pillows. So fun!
Thank you so much Amber! You are a sweetheart! It was really good to meet you today. :)
I know it seems I’ve been missing in action since I haven’t posted anything since the beginning of January.
But I HAVE been sewing!
This past Christmas, we revived a tradition we used to do when my oldest kids were younger, but let go of for the past few years for some reason. This is the tradition of reading a Christmas story each night during December while we burn down a number on our advent candle.
It’s such a wonderful tradition, I don’t know why we ever let it go!
So this last Christmas, I got serious and ordered a few advent candles, (so we’d be all set for the next few years) and also got super busy researching and buying lots and lots of really yummy Christmas picture books. Wow! Was that fun!!! Maybe someday I’ll list some of our favorite books.
After Christmas, I was sitting down one evening and reviewing how Christmas went, what went well and such. I sat there and relished the memories that were created while cuddling up on the couch with my kids and reading these wonderful stories.
It was perfect - Mom with wonderful kids snuggled up with her on the couch – the lights dim and the Christmas tree lights on – the advent candle burning slowly nearby – reading yummy Christmas books. The sweet feelings and moments were so precious!!! Perfect.
Then it hit me. No. It wasn’t perfect! What do you think was missing???
You guessed it, Christmas Quilts!!!! We needed Christmas Quilts to snuggle up in while we read!!!
So, I got busy and I have four Christmas Quilts in the making. Three flimsies done and one still getting pieced together. I’ll give a more detailed post for each of them when they are done, but for now, here’s just a peak at each of them.
And, of course, I’m going to back each of them with yummy minky!
They HAVE to be super snuggly!!!
First up is a Christmas stacked coins quilt. I’ve been dying to make one for a long time and finally did it! I’m so pleased with it.
Next up is a kit I bought from my LQS. It’s so cute, and came almost completely cut out. YES!
The third one is not necessarily my favorite, but it is nice and will do. I got the layer cake on a good deal and just wanted to pump out something fast, so I left it in the large 10” squares and just sewed them together.
And the last one is going to be real cute. It’s called Retro Christmas Quilt from Amy Smart at Diary of a Quilter. So cute!
I messed up a bit on the cutting of one of the fabrics, so I’ve got to do some fancy figuring to solve the problem, since it, too, was a kit, and only came with so much fabric.
Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to lately.
These quilts are going to be so wonderful to have next Christmas!!!!
Linking up with Quilt Story’s Fabric Tuesday,
Like I said in a recent post, “If one is good, four is better!” I finished one pinwheel Christmas table runner last week and have 3 more on the burner… They’re all sandwiched up nice and tidy (thanks to 505 spray!! Awesome stuff!) and just waiting to be quilted. Let’s see how long it takes me to actually get them done! : )
Myra
Hello everyone! I have been planning a project for a couple of months now, and I’m still stuck on what exactly to do! So I thought I’d put it out to you amazing people to see if any of you have any suggestions for me. All suggestions are welcome and I would sure appreciate your input!
I’m going to make a special ‘handprint’ quilt for my mother-in-law for Christmas with all the handprints of her grandchildren on it. The fabric I’ve chosen is some from the California Girl line…
Every other square will be a handprint cut out of the Cal. Girl fabric appliquéd onto white fabric, and so every other square will be some sort of quilt block design of the Cal. Girl fabric. I simply can’t decide what to do with the quilt block squares! Can you help me??? (Don’t laugh to hard and my drawings of hands! : )
Here’s my amazing drawing of the quilt:
What do I do with the blank squares??? I thought I could do some sort of fun design with half square triangles like one of these:
Or I could do granny squares, which I must say, the name “granny squares” lends nicely to who the quilt is for, Grandma! But I have to say that for some reason, I’m not in love with granny squares yet…. don’t shoot me. : )
Or I could do heart blocks:
Or I could just do a plain square of fabric, like a simple patchwork quilt.
OR I could do something I totally haven’t thought of yet! All I know is it can’t be too complicated or I’ll never get it, and all the other things I want to make, done! : )
Do you have any suggestions for me? I sure would love your help!!!
Thank you!!!
Myra
