Christmas projests

A couple of bowl cozies to go with
my Christmas dishes

An Advent Calendar I've been
wanting to make

Little machine embroidery "hopper"
for the Advent Calendar

Kathy and I made a little Goodness
for the Stitched Together ladies.

Coasters

Christmas cards and tuck-ins

 These are my 2025 Christmas cards for family and my forum friends.

Card made with picture of ornament 
I stitched in 2023.

I made these cross stitch ornaments
to tuck in with the forum friends'
Christmas cards. They are from Lesley
Teare's free 2024 Christmas sampler.

These are cards I sent to Emelie
and Leslie's families. They are
machine embroidery designs from OESD

I used the same Lesley Teare designs
to make a few puffy ornamentys
for Emelie.

Rose Buds-Stitched Together

 Satin r

ose bud made at Stitched Together. One I made and one someone else made.

Rag wreath

This is a rag wreath made with scraps of Christmas fabric tied onto a metal wreath frame. This project was presented by one of the members of my Stitched Together group. She provided the wreath forms, and we each brought our pre-cut fabric scraps. It was a fun project.
 

Crafting with grandchildren

 

Julia's Pillow

Valentin's Pillow

I made this beluga whale
messenger bag for Sonja.
Somehow, I don't have a picture of
the fox one I made for Julia.

Sonja saw my little fabric
scraps and decided to make
these "little books".

God's Eye wall hanging

This wall hanging was made with God's Eyes made by Leslie's family on our camping trip in 2021. I finally hung them on this driftwood I found in Lake Chelan in September, 2023.

Felt kit ornaments

Emelie likes felt ornaments and Matthias likes red and white for Christmas decorations. This Bucilla Nordic Christmas kit seemed perfect to make for them. (Christmas 2022)

Embellished craft tote

I finally made time to embellish my plain black craft tote with some cute fabric. I've been meaning to do this for a long time. I backed the appliques with interfacing, then glued them on and reinforced them by stitching them down.

Notebook cover for Iris

I made Iris this notebook cover for her birthday (2022):

2022 Valentine cards (machine embroidery and fabric/paint)

This was made with a
couple of "4-patch-posey" quilt
blocks. 

2022 Valentine's Day cards:

Machine embroidery Valentines

Hand-print wreaths

In December of 2021, Julia, Valentin and I made hand-print wreaths which they hung on their bedroom doors. I'm still looking for pictures of them.

Ceramic painting

Gnomore Cookies cookie plates painted at Mindy's in November of 2021, gifted for Christmas, 2022 to Leslie and Emelie's families. As I recall, Merwin did most of the painting on the left plate, and I did most of it on the right plate.

Champaigne cork ornaments

Christmas 2021: Julia and I made some ornaments using champagne corks that I had collected at Emelie and Matthias' wedding. We wrapped them up for Emelie and Matthias as a Christmas gift. We also made some paper heart ornaments but I can't find pictures of them.

Hair bows

Large hair bows/ribbons for Julia:

Christmas cards (2021) and tuck-ins

It's been a while since I've blogged here, and I've completed many craft projects in the meantime. I waited to report Christmas gifts until they had been received, and that led to many months of procrastination!

To begin with, I want to show the 2021 Christmas cards I made for a forum group exchange. The moose silhouettes were made on my embroidery machine and then affixed to cardstock. In addition, as tuck-ins in each card I made these little gift-card hangers using decorative ribbon. 

Barn quilt

Grandmother's Flower Garden
in memory of Grandmother.

Kathy and I decided we should have some barn quilts on our houses. Merwin built the forms and put the first coats of primer on, then Kathy and I had a painting day in our garage. It took a couple more days to get them completed. Kathy doesn't have hers hung up yet.

Kathy thinks of barn quilts as a "secret handshake" between quilters.

It looks so tiny!

And here's Kathy's

Crafting with Iris

Crafting with Iris during her visit in March ...

Iris and I made this snowman banner when she was here in March. It's one I made for myself and then made one with Sonja, and Iris wanted one, too.

Mine is on the top; Iris' on the bottom.

We painted rocks ... (picture to come)

Iris enjoyed making things with the branches and vines she gathered outside and left this for me to use as a wall hanging.

She wanted to make coasters to sell as a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity but there wasn't time, so I sent her some pre-cut fabrics for Easter that she could sew together.