New Christmas Craft

Things are going great on the sign up over on Flickr for the new Quilting for Kids quilt that we will be making.

We still need 11 black and white blocks and 9 grey and white blocks. They're super easy, you can follow this tutorial here, and have them done in under 20 minutes.

Thank you to those who have signed up and please feel free to spread the word.

On another note, I've made a new Christmas decoration this year. My inspiration came from this post at Every Creative Endeavor, and she got her inspiration from Pottery Barn! So...here's my rendition.



I painted the sides red, then on the red O, I painted the sides white.




What do you think?

It was super easy. Paint, then hot glue, then staple gun and you're done!

Christmas in July!

There will probably be a lot of people talking about Christmas in July....

But I just finished my beautiful Christmas Quilt, so I will be joining them!

Here it is!

Okay, so I joined Lily at lilysquilts.com and tried my hand at my first Quilt as You Go Project.

I really liked it.  We used her dresden pattern, to make six of these:

Then I was able to free motion quilt with a lot more detail than I've done before, because it was so easy to move the fabric around.

This is the back:

And the front.

The lighting doesn't really show the detail on the front like it does on the back, but in person it shows.

I love this quilt!  Usually I give them away or try to sell them, but this will be mine for a long time!
 

I've linked up with Lily'sQuilts for Fresh Sewing Day.  Check it out and see what others are doing.