Howdy!
As Taria knows, it's 2 months 'til Christmas. Anyone working on Christmas quilts?
No, not me; I don't work to that deadline. I like to make Christmas things in the summer, to remind me that our hellish Tx. heat won't last forever. ;-P
Let the Festival begin!
Ragmop/Sandy- with a tote bag full of Trick-or-Treat candy: I'm ready for all the holidays!
My cushion cover I finished today is a Christmas gift, but the table runners I am giving were to have been for last year, but I didn't get them done in time, so I had them all ready by the end of January :-)
Lizzy
Last year I made 4 tree skirts. Kinda burned me on ever wanting to look at a Christmas fabric. I've recovered I guess - my placemats really do need replacing. I have some that are about 20 years old and still sparkle - and some that are only 2 or 3 years old that are quite drab. Wonder what that's about? Polly
Are the sparkly ones at the bottom of the drawer? My granny always said to put away laundered linens at the bottom of the stack so you could keep rotating them, but we all get in a hurry.
Saw a quilt>Last year I made 4 tree skirts. Kinda burned me on ever wanting to look at
Christmas on DH's HB? Why didn't you sing to him instead? We're waiting....
Butterfly (we DID get the housecoat done --SIL fnished it for us :) )
I'm working on Halloween table toppers. Clearly I don't work well to deadlines but they will be done for next year early! I was sewing with some of the guild gals the other day and they are working on neat Christmas package quilts. Cute things. I am in my finish it up mode. If I finished as I went like you do Sandy I wouldn't have to do this. : ) Taria
Howdy!
As Taria knows, it's 2 months 'til Christmas. Anyone working on Christmas quilts?
No, not me; I don't work to that deadline. I like to make Christmas things in the summer, to remind me that our hellish Tx. heat won't last forever. ;-P
Let the Festival begin!
Ragmop/Sandy- with a tote bag full of Trick-or-Treat candy: I'm ready for all the holidays!
I folded. Was working with making squares of scraps. Made enough to cover a Greyhound bus, the airport at Atlanta and at least a kingsize bed. Put it on the design wall. Said, "That's nice" , stacked and boxed the squares. It was getting in the way of more important things. Polly
I'm taking the non-sewing way out as much as possible this year and making gift baskets of jam, honey, handmade soap, bath fizzies, etc. So much easier to assemble than a quilt, especially for those who don't know how long a quilt takes.
For children, I am making fleece welly warmers/slippers, for Mark a special cushion that has arms and helps you sit up in bed to read. It is stuffed with all the bits and pieces from the fleece projects.... taking a lot more fleece bits to stuff it than I thought. The cover is almost done (piping - I hate piping!) and that will be a big project out of my sewing room and off the floor.
The babe is getting a Kinder Doll, for which I have all the special knit fabric, sheepswool for stuffing and so on, but just need to begin.
The quilt I'm quilting just now was started in 2003, and which I took to Russia in 2004 to work on. When I returned to the UK, the quilt like so many things in my life, was shelved. I took it out and started working on it seriously when I was pregnant. It is now on the machine, and has all the grid quilting done.... Jacob's Ladder. I am about to quilt diamonds along some of the diagonal seams in the blocks. I'm not going to quilt it as heavily as I might have done, because the back is a giant Carpenter's Wheel and the quilting from the Jacob's Ladder crisscrosses it all over, but there you have it. I just want it done and given to the recipient this year. His health is really not good, and well, done is better than perfect.
The quilt has been shoved to the side as I made a cowboy sweatshirt for the babe. He is heavily into cowboys right now, though we have no idea where it springs from. I finished it this afternoon and it did cheer him up, but the clocks going back and projectile vomiting is how ended our evening.
I think it's time for bed....
-- Jo in Scotland
If you want all my left over batting bits for stuffing just holler - I can never bear to throw them away, so they end up in a carrier bag under the spare bed!
Lizzy
That would be great! I have to make a Hungry Caterpillar draught excluder as well.
-- Jo in Scotland (small child still vomitting everywhere)
What a great idea - have never thought of it (and I usually do think of practical solutions!) Well done, Sally >g< . In message , Sally Swindells writes
Wow! Cushion 'forms' are loads more expensive. . In message , Sally Swindells writes
When they began putting in a new floor in our foyer, first they took down the doors to the closets. They say they do it all the time and are rarely surprised at what's inside the closets. Mine is stuffed with cushions and pillows. Never know when I might need one. Polly
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