Hooray! I have finished several things just in time to count them for the end-of-the year report! We had the annual Christmas fair at school, and I made bags again — this time in several sizes. The small gift bags were the best sellers, especially the ones sized to hold DVDs and CDs. I also [...]
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A Little Christmas Project (Design Wall)
Posted in Design Wall Monday, Holiday projects, Patchwork, tagged Christmas quilt, Design Wall Monday, preprinted panels in quilts, quilting, Sewing, snowball blocks on November 8, 2010 | 15 Comments »
This project started out as a panel of pre-printed Christmas designs that were meant to be cut out and made into tree ornaments. I wanted to make a quilt with them, so I framed each square with muslin strips and and then added corners to make the blocks into snowballs. Then I sewed all the [...]
A Patchwork of Pumpkin Seeds
Posted in Holiday projects, tagged 101 Cookbooks, cooking, Halloween, Heidi Swanson, Jack-O-Lanterns, quilting, Sewing, toasted pumpkin seeds on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My husband and daughter had a good time carving their Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns last night. I just wanted the pumpkin seeds for toasting, and they did all the hard work for me! Heidi Swanson at 101 Cookbooks has a wonderful recipe for Toasted Pumpkin Seeds, and I used her basic method for making my own little [...]
Party bags? Christmas stockings!
Posted in Holiday projects, Sewing, tagged children's party, Christmas stockings, party favours, scrap quilt, stashbusting on December 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve had a “Martha Stewart” moment. My little daughter is having some friends over after school on Friday for a Christmas party. For the party bags, I decided to do a bit more stashbusting and make a mini Christmas stocking for each child. I made a paper pattern based on a stocking-shaped tree ornament [...]
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