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.