Christmas Pouches

I have 5 great-nieces on my side of the family.

So for Christmas I made monogrammed pouches for each one.

The sixth one is for our granddaughter.

The pouches are approximately 8 x 10 inches in size.

I was able to complete all these pouches without buying a thing.

Not sure if I should be proud of that or 

embarrassed to have so many scraps.

At least I'm making good use of the scraps, right?

Each pouch is the favorite color or reflects the

personality of each girl.

The exterior cotton includes a light woven iron-on interfacing.

The diamonds and letters were applied with a fusible product

and then machine appliqued in place.

I used a variety of zippers and ribbon for the zipper pulls.

The pouches are lined with a pre-quilted cotton fabric.

I really like using this lining as it adds some structure

without having to mess with small pieces of batting.

I use this same lining in most of the bags I make.

I am so pleased with how these pouches turned out,

and as you can tell, 

I had way too much fun photographing them!

This year Christmas is extra special for our family.

Recently, some of these girlies were added

to our family through adoption. 

What a blessing!

Merry Christmas!

Carolyn

Gift Card Holders

 

Found a great tutorial on Pinterest for these

cute gift card (or cash) holders.

Made these are Christmas gifts for the great-nieces

on my husband's side of the family.

I finally got to use the CAM snaps.

Fun project, I'll be making more of these in the future.

Thanks for stopping by my little blog.

Carolyn

Baby Quilt for Expected Grandson

Lord willing, we are expecting a grandson early this fall.

Of course I had to make a baby quilt.

The nursery theme is forest animals.  

I found this adorable print at a local quilt shop

and fussy cut the little critters.

The back is minky and I selected a fun print for the binding.

My daughter thinks it looks like snake skin and she loves it!

Work continues on our "new" home, we've been here about 18 months. We are currently remodeling the breezeway between our dining room and garage to include the laundry area.  Lots of work, hubby has been very busy, but we are making progress.  

No more carrying clothes to the basement, big smile!

Enjoy each day!

Carolyn

                                    The Lord bless you and keep you.

                                    Make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

                                    The Lord turn his face toward you.

                                    And give you peace.

                                                                                            Numbers 6:24-26

Where have I been?

Welcome to my much neglected blog.  

Many life changes have occurred since my last post, over 17 months ago.

We sold our home, purchased and moved to another. 

First snow in our new home.

Did lots of home repairs to both houses with more to come (bought a fixer, this will take time).

My hubs had a few job transitions but has landed in a really great position where his gifts and talents are being used to glorify our Heavenly Father.  

I spent many months working from home, but our office has moved to a new location so now I'm back working behind a desk.  

So many transitions, it just makes my head spin.

Did a little traveling, thanks to ministry training opportunities and a very generous airbnb ministry.  

Exploring the coast of Maine.

Outer Banks, NC

But you didn't come here to hear all this........I did manage to do a little creating too.

Sneak peak of my latest quilt.

Dusted off my crochet hooks.

Autumn pillow for our new sunroom.

Placemats, some fabric is vintage other's reproduction.

A buffalo check quilt for our living room.

A purse, one of my favorites!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to post again soon.  Stay safe and healthy!

Carolyn

Our granddaughter turns 6, I made her a Bible cover.

How can she be 6 already?

I bought pre-quilted fabric and designed a cover

for her first Bible.

We also bought Ellie her first golf putter,

she LOVES mini-golf!

As a wrap-up to our December & January, 

here are a few pictures of our family activities....

A few weeks before Christmas we continued the tradition

of making sand tarts, the thin crispy kind.

Pappy read "The Wonky Donkey", it's hilarious!

And we gave Ellie the most impractical gift that is bringing her

so much joy!  His name is Gerald.

And finally Pappy enjoyed a story with his girls,

Gerald just had to listen in too.

Here's to a great new year full of awesome family time!

Carolyn

Mini-quilts make special gifts!

A few years ago, I created a tutorial for this style of

Christmas tree mini-quilt.  The original quilt hangs in my sewing studio.

Recently when a friend visited me, she mentioned how much she liked the quilt.

She also collects gnomes.....so I put the 2 together

and came up with this gift for her.

The next mini-quilt I made was for my Aunt Louise.

Her birthday is in November, but she just received her quilt.

I need to make more of these.

And finally this cute little mug rug for my

sister who LOVES snow.

Almost forgot, I made myself another mini-quilt.

This one started by playing with half-square triangles to make stars.

I decided to combine them. It could be used as a table runner,

but I hung it on my studio wall.

Same star, just different arrangements of the half-square triangles.

Here's an updated picture of my studio display....

makes me smile!

Thanks for visiting my neglected blog :)

Carolyn

Pillows A-plenty

 I went a little crazy with sewing/quilting pillows this year.

I started with a scrappy star for me.

I found this background fabric at a thrift store

and loved the vintage touch it added to my pillow.

Another favorite part is the back of the pillow.

I just love everything about this pillow,

except I have to put it away now.

Maybe I'll make a pillow for each season....

I created this mini-quilt from a practice block for

the next set of pillows I made.

These were gifts.

Snow globes galore.....

1...

2...

3...

4.

And a monogrammed star.

Lastly for the 8 kids in our life, 

7 great nieces and nephews and

our granddaughter.  I made these easy

flannel and fleece pillowcases.

The kids loved them!

I'll share more projects in the next post.

Carolyn