more presents...



Sue from Quilt times sent me this for participating in the Christmas Quilt Alongs.  Love it Sue!!!



From my Secret Santa in Cobble Court Quilters:

I love this card. It reads:

Wishing you

threads of happiness

and colors of joy

woven throughout

the fabric

of your life.

What a nice gift!  Clipsters and a candle.

~smile

Christmas Sharing and Sewing with Reenie

Yay!!! Finally some quality time with Reenie. Saturday was set aside for sewing and catching up. A lot of chatting took place here. I dont think there was a silent moment. (And if you know Reenie and sewing, she shuts up when she sews.....so we must really missed the chatting...)

First we did our Christmas gifts exchange which we just did out of pure love and devotion.....not planned what so ever.  Santa brought me two Scrap Basket Surprises quilt pattern books so I just had to give one to Reenie. He knows one book would just not do. I also made her a green fuzzy warm cozy scarf which she wore all day long. 

Doesn't she look toasty!!!

Reenie's picture

Here is my gift from her. She tricked me. As she had implied on her blog this tree runner was someone else but when I opened my gift I was so happy the tree runner I loved was for me.

Love it! It is on my coffee table in my family room.

Oh sewing...  Yes we did some sewing. We made these table decorations if you will.

Reenie's picture

Now we have to embroider.  The directions had "Faith, Hope, Love and Joy" around the borders.

We wanted to do it by machine but the font wasn't large enough. I think by hand is prettier.

Reenie taught me paper piecing with the trees in the runner she made for me. I think I have found a new love... 

there was a moment though that I continued to sew the fabric in the wrong direction. Third time was a charm I guess but my head started to hurt....this is when we stopped to venture out to Craft Bits and Pieces. I have been itching to buy some good fabric for cheap cheap.

Ah so much fun!!

Thanks Reenie for a great day!

Christmas Quiltalong update *snowman has nose and arms*

I couldn't get on the computer at 11:30pm when I stopped. I finished the checker board top. I will complete it today and a snowman. He needs arms and a nose.  I will get outside and pick up some twigs for them. I plan to cook the nose....  polymer clay stuff.

Isn't he the cutest!  *giggle*

I do need to get the pellets for the base. The rice I used just is not heavy enough. It works but not like I want it to sit.

I did fan out my gathering from the fabric sale. Here it is......

A lot got into that plastic bag. Here it is in a pile...

and the notions......

I found rick rack for the gingerbread house, anything new or packaged I grabbed, thread, pin case, templates, bag of cut out squares, part of a pattern cut out and the pattern: just stuff.

So there you have it. I still need to cut out for the snowman wallhanging.....

See you next month Sue and gang.

~Shellie

Christmas Quilt Along

I started in late....  Well I had to go get a bag of fabric for $10. Yep, and it is stuffed. That was so much fun. I will sort it out later. Im not even certain what is all in there.....
Then I was off to Craft n Bits; I love those lady's that work there. I bought two planters or pots, a green glass bowl, blue/yellow berry swag and Christmas fabric. Fun, Fun, Fun.

Now today is our Christmas Quilt Along. I joined cause I cant let Reenie and Gina have all the fun. If you would like to join us next time it is over at Quilt Times with Sue. She has patterns, cookie recipes and a puzzle going that I am getting a ton of words down. I just cant stop doing it.

Anyway here is what I am working on probably after everyone else has called it a day. Granted I just started at 4:30 maybe.

This is a checkers game. Im putting the rows together now.

I want to do the snowmen and the wallhanging. Maybe a snowman tonight and cut out the fabric for the wallhanging.

So it is 7pm now and that is what I have so far.  Maybe later I will sort out the bag and take a picture.

~Shellie