Hope you all are filled up from yesterday and not “killing yourselves” on Black Friday shopping! I finished up this dress for Sonja (finally!- don’t tell her I meant to finish it for halloween, but didn’t) She loved her new “fall” owl dress! and it twirls a bit too! Yesterday we went to our friends …
The 12 Days of Christmas quilt is DONE!! I had it quilted for a while but didn’t do the binding until recently. I long arm quilted it with a Christmas variegated thread (I actually don’t care for this one but it fits with the quilt!!) I quilted holly and berries on the border, curves on …
I showed you these blocks already that I had machine embroidered years ago and I finally got some coordinating Christmas fabrics from connecting threads. I used my 9” QUBE set and cut out pieces I trimmed the embroidered blocks and made them 9 1/2” to match the QUBE blocks Here’s the 9” alternate block and …
Hi everyone, it’s my day to show my version of Christmas Carols Row Along Thanks to Marian for coordinating this, it’s a LOT of work!! it’s been planned months in advance and then having to coordinate who goes when, get pictures and sponsors (we got some free fabrics from Northcott! to work with!) and schedules …
Today is my Anniversary I’ve been married to Dan for 18years and known him for 20, that’s more than half my life, I’ve known him longer than I haven’t!! Look forward to at least another 18! I figured I’d show some after Christmas pictures here too It was just home on Christmas Eve and Christmas …
I told you that on Thanksgiving we had a family from church come for dinner, they have 3 kids 4 and under so it was loud Richard (the husband) is a cook, so they brought lots of good food and we made some too of course, so it was quite the feast! He cut the …
Why do they call it Black Friday anyway? I’m NOT going to any store to go shopping- don’t like crowds but I don’t mind online shopping and Wednesday, Connecting threads started a sale and almost $70 worth of fabrics just jumped into my shopping basket!! (actually almost double did, but then I had to remove …
The Christmas fun is over! We actually didn’t cook much. on the 23rd I took my oldest daughter to Target to get a Christmas dress (forgot she had outgrown her other one)- they were prepared there so it wasn’t too bad, but the parking lot took 10 min to get out of to make a …
I can finally cross this one off my list! The Swoon block from the block swap I hosted last year, is finally done!! it’s a BIG quilt, 83 x 83” I long arm quilted holly leaves and berries all over it in white thread. Hopefully you can see the video here: Since the quilt was …
Merry Christmas. Glædelig Jul. I’ve looked at friends FB posts from Denmark, they celebrate Christmas on the 24th and I was reminded of one thing I loved to do as a child on Christmas! Dance around the Christmas tree and just like this old picture we had REAL candles on the tree! (wonder how many …