While we have been at my mom’s house I have been able to get some sewing done. My mom has a Janome 8900, which is a lovely machine to sew on, if I do say so myself.
On Thursday I made Anne a new skirt for our family reunion this weekend. I don’t have any pics of Anne wearing the shirt, but here is a pic of it all finished.
The pattern was super frustreating but my mom and I are talented enough sewists that we were able to figure it out and make it work.
How is your holiday sewing shaping up?
Welcome to my room at my parents house! There is something I find so neat when I visit my family about the fact that I get to visit the quilts that I love and spent hours making. In my room is the quilt I made for my dad when he was recovering from Tuberculosis last year. This is my Dizzying Diamonds pattern.
In Anne’s room, she is sleeping with the purple quilt I made for my mom’s birthday last year:
In my mom’s room, on her favorite recliner is the quilt I made for her in honor of my grandma. It was supposed to be a chemo quilt for my grandma, but the cancer took my grandma before my mom ever had a chance to make it.
I’m not sure why I don’t have a full size picture of this one.
Tomorrow we will decorate for Christmas, and yet another quilt will come out. The first quilt I ever made for my mom was a log cabin Christmas quilt. It is fun to visit and see a bit of my progression in quilting.
I hope everyone is having a lovely start to their holiday season!
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I love this age, Santa is finally fun and exciting, as opposed to scary and frightening. I thought I would share Anne’s picture with Santa this year. We aren’t visiting a mall Santa. Instead, our local fire department came to our neighborhood with one of the trucks decked out with lights and music, complete with Santa. They also don’t ask for money for pictures, instead they ask for canned food items to fill our local food bank. It is a win-win. Happy kids and helping our community!
And here is a shot of the truck. The people riding on top are Santa’s Helpers, they collect all of the donations.
Santa was kind enough to whisper in my ear what Anne asked for too, so that makes my life so much easier!
Happy Holidays Everyone!
Well…not really. Yes our house is decorated, but what I made is intended to decorate someone else’s house.
This is going off in a care pack in the next day or so. I hope it’s new owner likes it.
It is a Cathedral Window ornament. I meshed together two different tutorials to make it, not really following either exactly… This tutorial by Kim from My Go-Go Life and this tutorial by Jamie from SunFlower Seeds. I’m admittedly bad at following instructions but I think what I made works and is pretty.
I hope the recipient loves it! Though I have been assured she loves decorating for Christmas so that does give me hope!
