Christmas Items

Earlier this year when my husband's Grandma dropped off some fabric for me I found half of a little girls Christmas dress. A month or so later I found the other half and put them in a box of holiday fabrics. I pulled out the box a few days ago when I made the wall quilt my husband wanted. So yesterday, I finally got the dress sewn together. I was hoping that it might be the right size for my youngest daughter but it was not. Now I have to figure out who I know that would be the right size or I will end up giving it to the Airman's Attic on base for anyone to pick up. Or I can make or buy a life size doll to dress it in it. Most likely I will just give it away as a gift.



Some more of the fabric panels that Grandma gave me was a pillow and applique panel. I made the pillow up and do not really have anything to put the other pieces on. I decided that I would use them as window decorations for Christmas. Usually my windows get crocheted snowflakes but with so many windows in the front of my house I can use more then just snowflakes. I put the appliques onto some felt and plan on hanging them in the living room windows since we have six large windows there. The matching pillow is staying on my living room couch. The snowflakes that I have will be put in the windows in my entryway this year. I only have about ten so they would look funny in the living room windows, I plan on making more but for now this will work.

Dress Form

I have sewn for years but never had a dress form. In the recent years with my oldest daughter being close to the same size as me or wanting clothes for herself. I have always made her stand there to be fitted at different stages of the sewing process. A few months ago I started teasing her about how I was going to duct tape her since she didn't know what I was talking about. It wasn't until a week or so ago that I finally did and she found out what I was talking about. We had fun making it, I just need to finish it up. I plan on making a cover for it so that it will be easier for pinning and if possible I am going to make it a stand. For now it is sitting on the floor under my ironing board.

Christmas Panels

This last weekend my husband took me to the craft store and he saw a quilt that he likes. So he bought the fabric panel and some fabric and batting. The next day I got to work on it. I didn't make it the way the sample quilt was because it had pockets and stuff. I just wanted a nice wall quilt to hang in my family room. So quilted it how I wanted and left off the pockets and things. We like how it turned out.



Since I was working on a Christmas quilt I thought that I would look through the fabric that my husband's Grandma had given me. I came across some Christmas story book panels. So now my kids have a few new ones to read. With the ones I made a few years ago we now have six books. Just the older ones are flat compared to the new ones. Hard to believe that they use to be just as big when they were first made.

First Try At Free Motion Quilting

I have hand quilted and machine quilted before but I have never done free motion quilting before. I have been looking at a few different web sites that have examples of free motion quilting. So I figured that I would try a few things with it. This is my first attempt at free motion quilting, an experiment you could say. I think I am actually going to work on learn how to do it more. I look forward to learning more and trying it out on some quilts.