Ornaments done!

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Can't believe that I wrapped up these ornaments so fast. Once I started I just kept going. Don't you love when that happens?

Here they are before they were stuffed. I ended up using interfacing to give them more weight.

Here they are completely done.














I thought I would post some photos of how my daughter decorated with greens and some of the ornaments I made in the past. I also made the Santa face tree skirt. She lives in a condo in an old box factory.

I did not make the dinosaur. I wish I had. I should have made her others, but back then I had to have commercial pattern to make things like this.

These are the ones I made from some of the characters from Nightmare Before Christmas. These were the first ornaments that I designed myself instead of working from a pattern. How many ornaments have I made her? I have been making them each year since she was born in 1989. That means for 27 years without fail I have made an ornament and have had them all done before Christmas. And a few years I have made more than one. So I guess the total is about 30.











Thanks as always for reading.
Chris

Ornaments in progress

Last week I finally sketched out the ornaments that I am making my daughter this year. The robots will be between 4 and 5 inches tall. Not really sure of the real size comparison of the 2 robots, but I am not going to worry about that.

 I cut out and fused the pieces onto fabric today. I wanted to make these out to felt, but I didn’t have any white felt. So rather than go to a fabric store I decided to make them out of muslin. I guess I will either add some “weight” to them with batting or fusible interfacing. That will be tomorrow’s decision!

I guess I am participating in the current Star War’s craze.
Thanks for reading. Looks like Windows live writer is not working on blogger again. I guess that happened on Dec 11. I read that it will not ever work again. I hate posting from inside blogger's editor. Do you know if there is something else to use?
Chris

What a relief

The quilt for my MIL is finished except for a sleeve and label. She asked for a quilt for Christmas. I do love how people ask for quilts. At least she did not specify what kind of quilt. My husband voted for a traditional quilt which was good since I made this top from a kit earlier this year. I bought the kit before I started making art quilts and decided to make it this year while we were selling our house. It was good to have something that was contained to work on so that my sewing room did not get out of control while showing the house. The blog about the quilt is here. I was glad that the top was already done, but I must say that my heart was not into quilting it since it is not longer what I love to make. I used invisible thread throughout since I had to go back over things a lot and did not want the stitches to show. It looks good and I am glad it is finished.

A picture of the finished quilt was taken with it laying on the floor since my design wall is occupied with my blue abstract quilt. It came out pretty flat considering that I did not bother to block it. I just washed it in the washing machine and dried it in the dryer.

Now I have to make the ornaments for my daughter. I have been making her an ornament each year since she was born. I blogged about all the ones I made in this blog.

This year I am going to make her 2 ornaments of the robots in the new Star Wars movie. One is R2D2 and I am not sure of the name of the new robot. So now that the quilt is done I can concentrate on the ornaments. My daughter and her boyfriend are going to the movie the day it is released. I never knew she was into Star Wars.

Have you had people ask you to make them a quilt? Am I the only one that does not really appreciate that? I get that it is a compliment, but I find myself aggravated by the request. Maybe I need to lighten up! Maybe I just wanted to work on my abstract blue quilt…. All I can say is I am glad I made the top earlier this year or this would have been a longer adventure.

Now I need a name for it? Her name is Mary. My husband suggested “Mary’s Quilt.” He also suggested “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary!” I bet that would go over well!

Chris