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Starting just after Thanksgiving 2020 and ending just prior to Christmas, I embarked on a no-sew, “quilted” (actually folded) ornaments project for friends and family. I learned how to create these by watching a video on YouTube from Shabby Fabrics. This was a great way to utilize scraps of fabric from previous projects. Each ornament is made from a 3″ …
In the fall of 2018, I promised each of our daughters and daughter-in-law that I’d be making them a custom Christmas tree skirt. In 2018, two of them were completed and it wasn’t until the Christmas of 2020 that I got around to completing the other two. Here is the whitetail and mule deer quilted and appliqued tree skirt made …
In 2017, I made two large, sofa-style pillows using premium metallic quilting cotton and the “cathedral window” quilt pattern. These pillows were gifts for two of our daughters at Christmastime. For the two larger pillows, I pieced the backs with holiday fabric with fabric leftover from other projects (see photos in the gallery). Many of the patterned fabrics had metallic …
For a few years, I’d been promising my daughter, Emily, I’d make custom Christmas stockings for her family. Every year she’d ask whether it’d be “this year” and, in 2020, it finally was. If I’m making a gift for someone then my rule is it can’t feel like work. I have to be, well, in the mood, so to speak, …
In the fall of 2018, I promised each of our daughters and daughter-in-law that I’d be making them a custom Christmas tree skirt. In 2018, two of them were completed and it wasn’t until the Christmas of 2020 that I got around to completing the other two. Here’s the Peanuts Gang quilted and embroidered tree skirt made for our son’s …
I’m so happy with how this set of placemats turned out! I purchased an inexpensive set of red placemats at Walmart and then machine embroidered Christmas carols in the top left corner of each and a holiday motif in the lower left. I had a jelly roll of Robert Kaufman metallic fabrics on hand and used a few of the …