Wrapping Up Holiday Gifts

Christmas decorations are down and packed away - it was a lovely holiday!  I really enjoy gifting family a small handmade gift each year and wanted to share this year's makes.

For my youngest, I used the large size of the Noodlehead open wide bag tutorial to turn two drawings made in elementary school into a bag.  (I purchased the printed fabric way, way back during an elementary school fundraiser.)

My husband runs trails in a wonderful park each morning and talks often about this beaver family he sees most days.  He loved his gift!  I found the pattern on Etsy.  This is the 8" size block.  I filled the mini with batting so that it could serve as a trivet to protect a table top.

For my middle one, I printed some favorite photos (years ago) via Spoonflower.  I found them while doing some organizing so turned them into a pillow.

For my son, I made a quilt Always Right.  You can read more about it here.

And finally, for one of my sisters I made a bag used some cork - this is very fun to make!

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Always Right

My son finished his PhD in 2021.  Given the pandemic, his dissertation defense was on Zoom so we actually got to watch him explain and defend his research.  (We had to promise not to ask a question! :-)

I started piecing on December 18 - a week before Christmas.  (Yikes!  I won't do that again.)  The quilt was gifted Christmas day, trimmed but without a binding and included a whole bunch of dangling threads still needing to be dealt with.  That said, I was quite proud that there were no basting pins attached!

Quilting itself was a loopy meander on the blue (Painters Palette Cadet Blue).  I left the white letters unquilted primarily because I ran out of time.  The unquilted areas aren't overly large.  The quilt measures 53" x 66".

The phrase on the quilt was lifted off a tee shirt that I briefly considered buying.   I couldn't get the phrase out of my head and knew my son would enjoy the sentiment so it became a quilt.  The lower case letters are from my Chunky Alphabet pattern.  (note - link updated 1/4)

Always Right was my last finish for 2021.

Have a wonderful day! Patty

January One Monthly Goal

Happy New Year!  Welcome to 2022!

I'm pleased to be hosting another year of One Monthly Goal 

New to One Monthly Goal?  Welcome!  To join, share a photo of your project plus, some words about what you want to accomplish in a blog post, an Instagram post (tutorial) or a post on Flickr and add that photo to the link-up.  Return at the end of the month and share your results.  (Results link-up opens for the last 7 days of the month.)

My goal for January is to make a flannel quilt - simple squares for some warm and cozy comfort on the couch.

Now it is your turn to link up - what is your goal for this month?   The One Monthly Goal accomplishment linkup will be available on January 25.  Make sure you add a link to this OMG post so others can find the OMG link-up from your blog.  Let's make that easy -  just paste this into your post:  

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Have a wonderful day! Patty