Time for a Christmas Quilt

 

I was going through some of my Christmas fabric scraps and found these pieced blocks and decided that I need to make a small Christmas quilt wall-haning. At first I thought about using the triangles above, but it wasn't exactly working for me.

Then I decided to use the leftover fabric from all those satin stockings I just finished. Remember those??? I ended up making 16!!!! I am kind of done with satin for awhile, for a long while that is.

I was relieved to be done truthfully. Once the "cheer" moms finish decorating the stockings, I will share again.

Back to the Christmas quilt. I decided on the white because it gives me lots of quilting space!!!

I'm going to use the above stencil, but not sure what else. I am thinking of quilting the design with red 100# silk thread. I will pull the red fabric together and I think it will be OK.

I will also add the red for a wide border and the green will be the binding. I am excited to start a new project which I should not be doing because I have so many others in progress!!!

Oh well, it's how I roll!!!

Take care, Martha

Christmas sewing, ornament making and crochet, Oh My!!!

 

First try at crocheting this little ornament :^) I think she turned out cute!!!

My daughter-in-law asked me to make Christmas stockings for our granddaughters cheer team. They picked out three different Satin fabrics. They decided at first for the ruffle on the top but they are going to add some very beautiful bows, one with each girls name. So I was thinking the cuff would work better for that.

Today I will sew all the linings, then get to work on each stocking. I am not fond of sewing satin fabric. UGH!!! It frays terribly and is so slippery. But I can do it. Hopefully I will have all 14 done by Thanksgiving. That is my goal.

We are having an Advent Fair for the children at church after Mass on December 7th. I found this craft to do with them and have made three so far so I am familiar with putting them together. I have all the supplies now other than the tacky glue. I used a hot glue gun for mine but we don't want any burned little fingers. Some of the children are as young as 2 so we will have plenty of helpers for this project.

It will be chaos!!! We always have doughnuts after Mass so the children will have had some sugar before they come to our craft table.

We also have games for them, so it will be a really fun day for all of us!!

Take care and thanks for the visit!!

Martha

Setting up the Christmas Bazaar

 Enjoy my video of the Bazaar. It was a very busy week getting everything prepped. 

If you watch closely you will see several quilted items for sale. We have a few wonderful quilters in our parish!!!

Christmas 3-D pictures from SVG files, cardstock, and my Cricut

These are so fun to create on the Cricut machine

I bought the svg files from Etsy. Then you download into your computer and upload into the Cricut Design Space.

After that you pick out your colors from your cardstock and start cutting. Layering is a little time consuming but fun. Once all done, I put them into these shadowbox frames that I purchased from Michaels.

I cut this one today so haven't had a chance to layer it with adhesive foam spacers. The spacers come in black and white and 1/8" or 1/4". Some layers are glued together and some have the spacer. The spacers are what gives them the 3-D appearance.

All of these creations will be up for sale in our church bazaar this coming week.

Cannot believe it is so close to Christmas!!!

Enjoy!!!

 

Bazaar Prepping

 

Hi friends. Well, my quilting and sewing have slowed down lately because I have been doing some crafts for our church bazaar which is next week.

I've been making Christmas gift tags, cotton crocheted coasters-27 so far and 3 to go, and I made my first shadowbox picture. I am having fun but am ready to get back to the quilting and sewing.

I'm thinking of going to the $1.25 store and picking up some mugs to match the coasters and sell as a set, 2 mugs and 5 coasters!!???? Maybe even a small box of hot chocolate. It would make a sweet Christmas gift. Your thoughts??

Leave me a comment, I would love to hear what you think.

Martha

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Quilted Bookmarks

I recently refound these quilted bookmarks, unfinished, along with several others and decided it was time to get them done. All they needed was the lace ribbon at the top and the edge stitching. So one done, and many more to go, but so fun to be finishing them. Hope you enjoy them. Martha From Catholic Answers: Question: What does the symbol of the P with an X through the bottom of it mean? Answer: You are speaking of the chi-rho monogram. Though the two letters look like P and X in the English alphabet, they are actually chi (looks like X) and rho (looks like P) from the Greek alphabet. They also happen to be the first two letters of “Christ” in Greek (Christos). Hence the chi-rho monogram is used as a symbol of Christ, Christianity, and Christians. I started these bookmarks several years ago and "found" them recently. So now that I am feeling better it's time to finish them up. You can see the one that I have edge stitched and added some ribbon lace at the top. That one is done, and the other is on the todo soon list. These are fun to do. The fabric in the front is silk and the back is cotton. There is stabilizer in the center. I fuse all the pieces together.