Christmas Quilts

I've brought my little Charlie Brown Christmas tree up from the basement. And a friend was at an antique store and saw one of those ceramic Christmas trees with the lights on them and knew I wanted one so she called me and bought it from me. This one is green and is probably two-feet tall. I'm excited about it and it has a music box in it too.

And I've pulled down all of my Christmas quilts and am putting them on beds. At one time I said I wanted a Christmas quilt for every bed. Now I have many, many quilts and only two beds so I through them over the tables and across the back of the sofas and fold them at the bottom of the beds. Here is a picture of part of them ready to be dispersed throughout the house.

Spent Thanksgiving with friends who have a house on the water. The day was beautiful...warm, friendly breeze, lots of sunshine and we ate outside. I am thankful our friends invited us to share the day with them and their family. Thankful for the beautiful day! And most of all, thankful for my wonderful husband, lovely daughter, wonderful son-in-law, and my beautiful granddaughter.

Stocking Swap.

Each year a group I'm with on the internet does a Christmas Stocking Swap. The stocking has to be handmade and then filled with goodies. The goodies can be homemade or store bought. It's always fun to see what creative ideas these ladies come up with. This is the stocking I made for my partner. It's made from a "cutter" quilt. That's an old quilt that has lots of holes in it and you don't mind cutting it up for other purposes. I tied old bobbins on the cuff and put doilies as the cuff and at the toe and heel. Hopefully I'll get it off tomorrow or Friday for sure.

Visitors are Gone

Well, my daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter left today to go home to California. It certainly was wonderful having them here. Here are a few pictures that I took at home and at the airport.

Going to try --

I'm going to try to post pictures of what I do during the day...if I sew...and post here. Have more pictures to post another day.!!!

What did I agree to?

While visiting Cathi's friend, Kacy, in Jacksonville; she asked if I would make her second son, Thompson, a quilt with his name on it like I had done for her first born, Connor. I said, of course I would. So when I got home I started on the quilt for Thompson. Keep in mind that they were coming for a visit to the Gulf Coast in about a month

I made Thompson's quilt and then got to thinking that gee, his brother will feel left out if I don't make him one so I did. I made it from a panel I had and had enough to make two quilts so I made two play quilts from the truck panel...one for Thompson and one for Connor...these were "play" quilts.

Now you're thinking, aren't I just the nicest person.....but wait!!! Also coming to the Gulf Coast were Cathi's other college friends ... a single mom who had been a foster parent to two American Indian sisters and in September she legally adopted them and became their real mom. Also being at the beach with everyone would be another college friend, her husband, her four-year old daughter and twin six-month old boys. Also there would be Cathi, Dan and Cady.

So I thought, okay, I am going to need to make quilts for all of these kids as I can't make one for some and none for others. So I made quilts for everybody!!!!! They were easy quilts with big pieces and I even had three "family" quilts. I used up lots of fabric and it felt good to make them for people I knew who would appreciate them. Cathi said that the two little girls took their quilts to bed with them...that certainly made me feel good!!! Here are pictures of all of the quilts I made.