Cross stitch card

 
I made this birthday card for my friend, Shirley. It is a free chart from Lesley Teare.
I also made an envelope from a calendar page. 

Lefsé cozy

Although it was probably Iris who had the most interest in learning to make lefsé this year, I made a lefsé cozy as a gift for Leslie.

Machine embroidery t-shirts

I had some t-shirt blanks that I figured I should use before my granddaughters grew out of them (especially the small ones). I thought they might like these digitized designs.

for Iris

for Julia

for Sonja

2020 Christmas cards and gift tags

These are my 2020 Christmas cards and gift tag tuck-ins to exchange with my online friends at Christmas Friends Home. The pattern for the gnome on the left is from FatCatPatterns (an applique quilting site) that I reduced in size to fit a small card. The other gnome is a machine embroidery design.

In designing the inside message, I discovered a website called remove.bg which will remove the background from an image. I think it will be very helpful in the future.

 

The gift tags reindeer faces were machine embroidery patterns intended for hair clips. I just glued them to the gift tag blanks. I may be doing more of these in the future for family gifts. They were fairly quick and easy and I liked the finished result.

 

Prayer shawl

This is another prayer shawl that I will keep in my gift closet.

Headband/Neck warmers

A friend told me about these turban headbands she has been making with leftover yarn. I thought I'd give it a try and found them practically addictive. I gave about 6 of them as gifts and have a whole wardrobe of them left for myself. I like to wear them as a neck warmer mostly, but can slip them up over my ears if I'm outside in the cold. I think I've made about 13 of these, so I'm sure some are pictured more than once here.

The tutorial I used is: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdlu9gfrL-M

Calendar envelopes

 I've seen references to making envelopes with old calendar pages, and it seems that one of my online friends has made them before. I decided to give it a try and came up with these. I self-addressed some of them for each of my granddaughters to hopefully use to send me letters, pictures, whatever. I did it years ago with Iris and I think she enjoyed it. I also gave a few to an online friend as well as keeping some for myself. The were fun to make, and it seemed like they kept turning out cuter and cuter as I cut them (late into the night).

December pillowcases

Julia's

I forgot to take pictures of the December pillowcases so had to wait for Emelie and Leslie to send me some.

These are the last of the monthly pillowcases.

Sonja's

Embellished t-shirt

Sonja's early November birthday

 brought more opportunities for crafting! 

She had requested a t-shirt like the one 

I made Iris in April. We decided her 

superpower is hugs! 

Another machine embroidery project was to make her some wood block nativity pieces. Merwin helped with cutting, sanding and staining the blocks. Most of the designs were from DesignsbyJuJu.

Lastly, her birthday card. 

She's 

recentlybeen fascinated with mushrooms, 

and this Durene Jones 

freebie 

showed up just in time.

Halloween pumpkin wall hanging

I have quite a bit of catching up to do on crafting blog posts. Here's a KreativeKiwi stacked pumpkin design that I stitched out for Halloween (on one side) and general fall decor (on the other side). These designs, as I've stated before, stitch out so nicely.

I also made myself a napkin
decoupage candle holder and another
one for Emelie. 

Machine embroidery table topper

I just finished this machine embroidery table topper for my friend, Shirley. She requested something "shiny gold". She will get it for her birthday just before Christmas.  The design is from KreativeKiwi.com.

I added a little Christmas fabric to the back, 

and, basically, it's reversible.

 

November pillowcases

These November pillowcases will soon be in the mail to Sonja and Julia.

Cross stitch birthday card

For Emelie

I made this cross stitch birthday card from an Amanda Butler chart for Cross Stitch magazine.

Emelie's Eugene Quilt

This is Emelie's "Eugene Quilt". She pieced the blocks when she lived in Eugene but never found the time to finish it. I volunteered to finish it for her. She may want to use it for a wall hanging, but I didn't put any hanging loops on it yet, as I didn't know which direction she would want it to hang. It's quilte large, so a regular dowel probably wouldn't be the way to go. I'll need to discuss it with her. The finished quilt is a birthday gift, and I also want to discuss a label with her. I think she finished the piecing before she got married and changed her name, so perhaps that should be taken into consideration. Or maybe she won't want a label at all. 

Memorial Quilt

I just need to finish packing this quilt to mail to the family. Our Stitching Club made this quilt in memory of Chris Groce who did the Creative U presentations at Pacific Fabrics in our area for years. She is missed! 

The blocks were created by different individuals of the group using a focus fabric in each block. I then pieced the blocks together with the sashing and sandwiched it with backing and batting. Kathy did the quilting; Barb finished the binding; and Gina made the label.

We hope this will be a meaningful gift to the family. They are welcome to donate it to a charity if they so wish.

This is the card that was sent to the family with the quilt.

We got a heartfelt thank you from the family.

Shamrock ornaments

 

These shamrock ornaments are finally done and packed away till March. The machine embroidery designs are Ornamental Shamrocks from DesignsbyJuJu.com.  

Machine embroidery key tag

 

I found this machine embroidery key tag on Etsy at SugarBeachDesigns. It's the perfect tag for our travel trailer keys. I stitched it on some vinyl left over from the spare tire cover.

French press cozy

 

Here's a French press cozy I made for the lake. I love French press coffee!

Painted rock

 

This gorgeous rock was painted for me by a friend. She's such a beautiful person as well as artist. I'll be using this as a napkin weight at the lake. Love it! Thank you Debbie!