Wall Hanging

My husband likes having his Christmas horse blanket on the wall. Since Christmas is over and our decoration will be getting put away on Monday, his blanket will be getting put away. So I decided to make him something to make up for that happening. Although he has been complaining that it is not as big as the blanket. Guess I will have to make him another blanket later but for now he will have something to fill the space on the wall.

I found all the horse print fabrics that his Grandma has given me and started looking at patterns to see what I might have enough fabric for. I found a pattern called Table Grace designed by Julie Weaver in one of my quilt books. I machine pieced and quilted it, add three tabs to the back so it can hang on the wall.

I think it turned out fairly well since I have not quilted in a long time, like years. The only problem I have with it is that the binding could have been attached better. I am the only one around here that would know or notice it, so I decided I am not going to worry about it this time. One thing I do like is that with the way I quilted it because of the front, the back quilting reminds me of the fence railing that you would see for the corals and barn pens.

End Of The Year

Well, Christmas is over and my family had fun. My kids had us opening presents at six in the morning. We had my sewing friend's family over, so between the two families we had sixteen people in the house. It was fun but toward the end of the night my husband had a bit to much. He only does large groups for short amounts of time, but is doing better at handling it for longer periods of time. Its a work in progress for him. Which must be why he invites a bunch of people over every holiday. Granted the past few this year had a lot of last minute cancellations. Most of the time we end up with at least one family with us.

With a new year starting in just a few days, I think I will make up a few goals of things I want to learn and do. I am not one that makes resolutions to go to the gym or lose weight, even though those would be good for me. I try to make goals of things that I think I really want and am more likely to stick with. Like how this year I wanted to start my blog and stick with it. Granted I have not posted daily like I would have liked but I have kept up with the projects that I have completed through the year. My other goal was to work in more time for me to be able to work on and complete those projects during the year. First time in a while that I have accomplished goals that I have set that focused on stuff for me. Here is to setting a few new goals and sticking with them the same way or better then I did this years.

Daughter's Christmas Present

My husbands wonderful Grandma had some beautiful fabric in the stuff that she gave me. A few of them I told my oldest daughter that I would make something for her from. Since I finally got a dress form made of her and finally got it up on a stand was able to start. She loved this fabric so I made her a wrap around skirt with it. She will be getting it as a Christmas present. She did see my working on it and knew the fabric had been promised her. She just doesn't know what exactly it is that I made and is kind of getting antsy about it. It was made a week or so ago and put under the tree. I still am worried about her liking it and if she will wear it or not. But that is me being a worry wort again about my stuff not being good enough or stylish enough.

Family Gingerbread Houses

At the beginning of December our family made gingerbread houses. We had a little town of our own. Each kid got their own to decorate. My oldest daughter wanted to make one so we went ahead and bought some kits for the kids. May be next year we can make our own but this year we used kits that had everything in them. We just had to put them all together. I helped my girls with theirs and my oldest girl helped my three little boys with theirs.


My oldest daughter (right)


My youngest daughter (left)


My oldest son (right)


My second youngest son (left)


My third youngest son (right)


My youngest son (left)

Christmas Stockings

Something happened to the Christmas stockings my friend's family had. They bought new ones and tried to put the names on with fabric paint pens but it did not work out to well. So my friend gave me a call to see if I could embroider their names on them. She stopped by that day, Tuesday, and we got started on them but she had to leave before they could be completed. I did not get to work on them much after she left that day, and was only able to work on them again yesterday. Now they have a cute new matching set of stockings.

Pincushine Fun

My friend bought a cute pincushion for herself. She had it with her for one of our sewing days. I did not have any current sewing projects so I played around with her pincushion. Stabbing it with pins and drawing on paper and things like that. By the end of our sewing time, I had I taken a light weight fabric and some old newspapers and made a large version for the fun of it. This is how that turned out.

Brag About My Friend Stacey

I have a wonderfully talented friend named Stacey that draws just about anything. My husband commissioned her to draw this picture of my wolf-hybrid that passed away four years ago. We had him for ten year so he was a big part of our family and is very missed. So getting a piece of art work so beautifully done of him is very special. I sent my friend a few pictures that I had of him and before I knew it she sent me this picture of the finished piece. It will be a great addition to the art work I already have hanging in my living room which each has a special meaning to me.

She has a lot of talent. I love looking at her web site periodically so that I can see her new pieces. Take a look you will be amazed at her talent.

http://www.staceyedgarportraitart.com/

Brag About My Friend

My friend that I made the scripture case for decided that she wanted a bag to carry other things in that matched her scripture case for Sunday's. I had enough fabric left over from the scripture case, so I let her use it for a matching bag. This is the picture that she sent me when she finished it this weekend.