Monday Making

The last MAKES before Christmas are now all done.

They're even wrapped!

I took leftover blackout curtain

and made a few little car trash bags for the young men in my family.

Do you know how hard it is to find gifts for that group??

This is one of the stocking stuffers.

I rolled them up and they stuff very nicely.

:)

I will now close the sewing machine

and MAKE some MEMORIES!!

Thanks to all of you for linking up week after week.

Here's hoping you have a wonderful Christmas!

Are YOU still making???

or...

are you ALL done??

Monday Making

I had company this week.

We had a great CRAFTY time!

Snowmen in Southern California are not wet and cold.

They are warm and cozy.

:)

It doesn't take much to make this kid friendly craft!

I love this project and enjoy having these little men sit on my sofa 

ALL through the Christmas season!!!

What are YOU making this week???

Monday Making

This is the month when Christmas happens in my sewing room.

It seems....if it doesn't involve Christmas...

It doesn't get sewn!

I am now adding some embroidery to these tiny trees.

:)

I am enjoying sewing this month!

The Christmas box of fabric is in the center of my sewing room.

It has been rifled through MANY times as I think of more things to SEW!

Not sure why I can't think of these items in November????

Wrapping presents can wait.

Making cookies can wait.

Caroling can wait.

I need to sew some Christmas!!

What are YOU making this week???

Christmas Quilt

Woo hoo!!

I finished a Christmas quilt (ahem....top only)

BEFORE Christmas!

The cornerstones are not 9 patches as directed.

I just had to change the pattern a bit to make it MINE!

:)

Don't you LOVE Red and green quilts???

Such a classic LOVELY combo!

They can be used and loved ALL year LONG!

The pattern for this quilt is here

Monday Making

December is HERE!

There are gifts to be made.

(Coasters for the football fan in my family.)

New quilts to BEGIN!

Here's the pattern you've probably seen elsewhere recently

from Temecula Quilt company.

I  have loved seeing all the pretty RED and GREEN quilts!

And quilted quilts to be bound.

Let the FUN begin!

What are YOU working on??

Monday Making

This week I did some Improvisational sewing.

Lots of little triangles pieced into strips

and THEN cut up into bigger triangles.

I'm not sure it matches my vision...

but it was a FUN experiment in Patience  piecing.

I also puzzled my orphan blocks into a square.

Some of these blocks are from blogland friends.

This quilt celebrates the love of quilting

and the loving quilting community!

Isn't that border fabric perfecto??

I had JUST enough

and I mean JUST ENOUGH!!!

There was less than an INCH left!

The border fabric IS pieced.

The perfectionists among us

wouldn't have used it.

BUT I DID!!!

And..

I didn't try to match up the prints to HIDE the seams!

Gasp.

There just wasn't enough fabric to do all that fussy work.

When there's the perfect fabric IN  YOUR STASH

you USE IT.

right?

What are YOU making this week???

Monday Making

I'm making a NEW quilt!

All orphans.

All Red and Green.

All for CHRISTMAS!!!

You wouldn't THINK of quilting as exercise....

BUT....let me tell you....

I worked on this for a few hours...and...

I am SORE!!

My design wall is the floor.

Getting up and down, moving blocks,

rearranging blocks, measuring the gaps....

REALLY gives those leg muscles a

WORK OUT!!!

:)

This week I will also be working on a little sweater.

There IS hope that I can do it before the cold weather is gone!

I had this along with me this weekend.

We visited our son in Iowa.

It was SUCH as surprise to walk into his place

and see a candle on a perfectly clean kitchen table!!

It was a miracle actually.

They DO grow up.

They DO become adults that know how to do grown up things!

They clean dishes.

They make beds.

When they're young....you wonder if it will ever happen!

I shed a few happy tears.

What are YOU making this week???