Tiny Ballerinas

My daughters' dance team had an ornament exchange and we were traveling right before so I cross stitched 2 tiny ballerinas for the exchange.  Love them!

Friday Finishes

I finished a little knitted star ornament this morning using this free pattern.  I am not good at double pointed needle knitting so I knit these straight and then sew them up.  I made two stars and sew them together, right sides, and add a little loop.  You can't tell from the photo but this is sparkly yarn.  I will be attaching this to a Christmas gift. 

I also finished up a table runner for my husband's grandma.  I received a free mini charm pack of Avalon with a quilt kit that I purchased.  While I think the fabric is pretty it is not my style.  I had purchased a pattern that uses mini charms and was able to find yardage on Etsy for the backing.  

My sewing time has been very limited as we have spent lots of time with my Dad.  He was making cognitive strides in rehab but wasn't making physical gains.  He was supposed to get "kicked out" of rehab and ended up with a UTI.  They did a CT scan of his bladder and kidneys and caught his pelvis at the same time.  The poor guy has been suffering with a broken hip for the last four weeks!!  The initial doctor's missed the broken hip after he had his seizure...no wonder he wasn't making physical improvements.  He had a hip replacement Monday evening and is now slowly recovering.  

I am linking up with Fabric Tuesday,Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop?, Needle and Thread Thursday and Finish it Friday.

Christmas Sewing

I needed something quick and easy to sew and had purchased a layer cake from Bunnyhill Designs and the Me and My Sister Designs Makin' it Cute Mitten pattern.  I was able to make 3 mittens from 2 slices of the layer cake...add a little ribbon and you have a perfect little ornament.

Swoon

I'm in love!  I don't know why I waited so long to jump on the swoon bandwagon. I am making a Christmas Swoon using Kate Spain's Solstice line.

Since I have the perfect trimmings from the flying geese blocks I'm making little pinwheel blocks for a table topper for my husband's grandmother for Christmas.

I am linking up with Fabric Tuesday, Show and Tell Tuesday , Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop?, Needle and Thread Thursday and Finish it Friday.

Baby Doll Beds

As I mentioned in an earlier post, my husband and I tag teamed and made doll bunk beds for our girls for Christmas.  He made and stained the beds and I made the bedding for each of the beds. 

USPS dropped the ball on the fabric for our oldest's bedding so she received a quilt that didn't have the binding sewn down. 

I used 1/2 inch foam for the mattresses and made simple pillowcase type "sheets" for the beds.  I had grand ideas of making actual sheets with elastic but with the thin foam mattresses it was an epic failure (on the evening of December 23rd). 

The girls loved their beds and immediately brought their babies down stairs to begin playing with them.

The first set of bunks went to our youngest, complete with a trundle.  She has Bitty Twins and Bitty Baby so they all needed a spot to sleep.  She is obsessed with pink and orange so I scoured Etsy and found a quilt kit with Kate Spain's Honey Honey fabric and ordered it for her bedding.  I also ordered some extra pink and orange flowers to back the quilts.  The bedding also happens to match the quilt that I made her for her 3rd birthday.

 

This set of bunks is for our oldest.  I am very thankful that I keep a shoe box of pre-made binding and happened to have a "spool" of Me and My Sister Designs scrappy binding.  The quilts are made with a charm pack from the new Bandana line that is being released and the sheets/backing are made with a very pretty print from LOL.  I love that all their fabrics play so well together.  She does have pillows for her dolls as well, but I am not sure where they landed in the chaos after Christmas.

Finished Momma Quilt

Here are some photos of my youngest daughter's "Momma Quilt" that she requested for Christmas.  She was so excited to open it and requested that she be allowed to being it in the car for our Holiday travels.

 

The backing was a happy mistake.  I might have a "problem" with Bonnie and Camille fabrics and had just enough yardage of this one for the backing.  I couldn't find the original fabric that I had purchased for the backing and I am quite happy that I couldn't find it.  This backing suits the quilt far better than the original I had purchased.

A Momma Quilt

Our four year old loves to be cozy and told me that the only thing she would like for Christmas from me and her Daddy is a Momma Quilt.  This was a super quick one to put together with leftovers that will be a doll quilt to match.  The fabric is Scrumptious by Bonnie and Camille and the pattern is now a Moda Bakeshop tutorial.

I am linking up with Fabric Tuesday, Show and Tell Tuesday , Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop?, Needle and Thread Thursday andFinish it Friday.

A finished scarf

I love, love, love Baah La Jolla yarn.  The colors are amazing and it is so nice to knit with.  This is the second scarf I have made with the yarn.  Photos don't do the hand painted yarn justice.  This scarf is amazing shades of orange and pink.  Natalie had already laid claim to this scarf...good thing she likes it because it's one of her Christmas presents.

I messed up while knitting the scarf and forgot to add 8 knitted rows between the border pattern and the center pattern so I modified the pattern to make it symmetrical and the right width.  I kinda like my mistake :)

The pattern is supposed to be Summerwind and I used 1 skein of yarn on size 6 circular needles.

Another Christmas Gift

My brother is now a married man and for the lsat 25 years of his life has used a fuzzy multi-colored dinosaur blanket for his afghan. I decided that he needed something a little more grown up for his apartment and made him an afghan. This varied the pattern to make it much wider so that two people can cozy up under it. The afghan is knitted with size 50 (yes 50!) knitting needles and 4 strans of Lion Thick and Quick yarn. I used 2 strans of an olive green, one brown and one off white. Since my brother is really tall, I kept knitting until I knew it was the perfect snuggle under size. I ended up using 12 skeins of yarn. With the big needles it knits up quick. The original pattern (8 skeins of yarn) takes 6 hours and this one took just about 9 hours to knit up. I literally cast off the last stitches Christmas Eve morning.