Showing posts with label Handmade Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handmade Christmas. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

What a Weekend! Christmas Quilting Blitz!

Christmas Tree
From our backyard.  This tree was planted after
our first Christmas in this house and had more
than doubled in height.  The tree needed to be
removed from the backyard....

So the top came into the living room :)

I had lots of help in the sewing room the weekend before Christmas.   No let me re-phrase that..... I was the help, the teacher, the mentor, the coordinator..... my sewing time was limited, I did the binding on 4 quilts, and quilted one quilt.  BUT we did get 4 quilts done in 4 days!   And this was all from stash!    The Friday evening before Christmas, we (definitely not me) had this brilliant idea to make 4 quilts for gifts!!!!!  So I put the condition, that everyone must help, and the fabric had to come from stash.



A Pillow Case

Tic Tac Toe Game
Friday night we chose fabrics, Saturday we started and finished 2 quilts (except binding), Sunday we did the other 2 quilts (except binding), created labels for 4 quilts and bound 1 quilt for Monday night.  As well we did a tic-tac-toe game and a pillow case!   Tuesday I finished up with the binding on 3 quilts.

The Tic Tac Toe Game is a free download from Craftsy.   The bag was self designed and I added the outlines from the Tic Tac Toe Pieces.  The Bunny embroidery was from Bunnycup Embroidery.

We had some friends over to so crafts....

This is the prep work we did before they came over.....
These are the completed crafts


Quilting Process:   These quilts were quilt as you go on the longarm.   First the backing and batting were loaded on the machine.  Each quilt has a different batting as these were from stash -- one has wool, one poly, one is an 80/20 and the last I think is a 100% Cotton.....   They are all the width of the backing -- and strips cut width of fabric....  and stitched down using the horizontal lock, then flipped and quilted.   The kids quilted their projects using wavy lines.... I used free hand scrolls.

I had some wonderful helpers.....












Quilt 1: For Grampa


Quilt 2: For Gran



Quilt 3: For Gramma



Quilt 4: For my Brother


Friday, December 23, 2011

Sewing with the kids


The kids decided to do some sewing for Christmas...

My 8yo daughter and 10yo son made 6 notebook covers...  They are getting very independent in the sewing room... although still leave the cutting to me.

My 6yo used the embroidery machine to embroider a towel. And helped me embroider a blanket for my grandmother.




And we painted the inside of some Christmas decorations....


Merry Christmas! Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday.



Monday, December 27, 2010

My Handmade Christmas Gifts

This year I worked hard on making it a handmade holiday.  Many on our list this year got handmade gifts...  Classroom teachers, music teacher, dance instructor gifts were finished earlier this month (some were finished really early, here, and some more, and others are pictured below).  The only gift item made that hasn't been photographed is some underwear for my husband...


And all the quilts were signed, and even made myself a paper pieced Mug Rug...

4 Santas, A Star, Quilts Labelled, Paper Piecing

Mountie Santa, Checking his List, Over the Tree Tops, Scottish Santa
Blankets, Mugs & Mug Rugs, More Towels

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday...