Monday Making

I'm hanging my little feather tree quilt....

and a family needlepoint

that has been in the family for ages.

I LOVE using these sentimental Christmas decorations.

The HOMEMADE kind are SO SPECIAL!!!

Of course there's LOTS of  GIFT making going on too!

Handwork and baking continue to keep me on my TOES!

What are YOU making???

Next week I hope to have a link up of  Christmas quilts.

Get those pictures ready Quilters!!!

 It will be a WHOLE week of quilts this time.

Links will be open December  17- 24

Monday Making

It's time for a Monday making party again!

It's hard for me to believe that I've been hosting this for a year and a half already!

It's nice to pull out what I THINK I might accomplish in the coming week

and share about it.

It doesn't always get DONE...but that's o.k.

Hope it helps you too

as you prioritize your "making"!!

I don't always get around to visit you....

but I love the comaraderie in our MAKING!

I've always been a MAKER.

Homemade has always been my "GO TO" when it comes to gifts

and making a home for my family.

I've made dresses and pajamas as gifts.

And then....quilts...of course!

There has always been homemade curtains on the windows

and homemade chair covers in the kitchen at my house.

There are SO MANY, many things I want to make!!

A weekly goal is kind of nice.

;)

This week I hope to put some stitches into this unfinished needlepoint I found at the thrift store.

I'm getting some hand projects lined up for the beginning of August

when my 20 year old has a surgery scheduled.

Long hours in the hospital demand hand work!!!

right??

Link up and share what YOU're making this week!

Finding Treasure

Thrift stores are DANGEROUS places.

You walk in with nothing particular in mind...

and then...

you find something that needs to be RESCUED!!!!

This unfinished needlepoint SCREAMED my name as I walked by.

All it needed was some framing...

some backing..

and some stuffing.

It met some of my vintage corduroy when I got it home.

It is a MATCH made in heaven.

And they lived HAPPILY ever AFTER!

pinwheels!

I was able to get all my pinwheels together!!

I love 'em.

This quilt top...so far....measures 59"x46".

But, I want it to be bigger.

I had planned on adding some concentric square blocks

around the outside of this...

Aren't they pretty?

But, after playing around with these yesterday
I had an idea!!


What if I add a strip of the little triangles around
the border??
Yes.
I like it.

Guess I'll be cutting some triangles this weekend.
:)

And....
look at what I found languishing at the thrift store.
A little unfinished project.
The decorative stitching is all done...but that's it.
I had to buy it.
50 cents.

Don't you think it will make a cute pillow?
Me too.