Each year I try to come up with little gifts for friends and family for Valentine's Day. This year I'm making machine embroidered mug mats. I have some great fabric that looks like antique postcards that's been fun to play with.
I bought the pattern at www.sanfranciscostitchco.com. It's part of a set of mug mats for V'Day. Each one takes about 45 minutes to complete (including trimming time). Something easy and sweet for the ones you love.
Until next time....may you be richly blessed.
From our family to yours, we wish you the happiest of new years!!
I can hardly wait to see what the new year will bring. I hope we all have a healthy and productive 2016.
As I sit here in the quiet of early morning on Chrismas Eve I'm feeling that all is well with our family and my soul. The busyness of the past few months is done and now we can settle in and celebrate our Christmas.
I make handmade gifts for friends and family every year and this began in June. Everything I made is in the hands of the recipients. The house is in order, the tree has been up for a few weeks, Christmas cards were sent and the marathon baking and cooking is done. We even managed a little get-together in our home last weekend. Dottie and Olive have enjoyed the Christmas preparations and extra treats.
The one thing left for me to do is to wish you and your loved ones a blessed Christmas and New Year. If 2015 was difficult for you, I wish you a much better 2016 filled with joy and good health.
Warm Wishes, Barb & Jeff
It has been our pleasure to give our friends their Christmas quilts so they can use them during the holidays
Our neighbors and friends, Steve & Cindy, received the Curved Log Cabin that I started in late summer. Cindy loves the fabric almost as much as I do.
Steve & Cindy have been our neighbors for a few years and they helped us so much during Jeff's recovery from hip replacement. A quilt is a small gesture compared to their friendship and help.
Another of our special friends is Kim. She's one of our tenants and she is referred to as "Our Kim" because we love her and feel she's part of our family. I made her a Morse Code quilt from a pretty jellyroll and she was totally surprised ~~~~
That's Our Kim on the left. She's a new quilter and so far has made a queen Log Cabin for her bed and one for her Mom. Kim pitches in helps us with anything we need....she's a great friend and wonderful person.
I hope you are blessed to have great friends in your life. If so, treasure them because they don't come around often.
Wishing you and your loved ones Christmas Blessings and a wonderful 2016!
Wishing you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving. Ours will be simple. We will give thanks for our blessings that are too numerous to count an also spend time calling friends and family that are far away. Then there's the food.....
Peace & Plenty ~~~~ Barb & Jeff
Yesterday I finished binding the second Curved Log Cabin quilt made from Incarnadine by Robyn Pandolph. This one was made from the scraps from the one I made a few weeks ago. The difference is that the outer border is a slightly different brown print and the prints in the logs are scrappy. Yes, making doubles of the same the isn't the most exciting thing but the end result made me happy.
We have never had a Christmas quilt and this can be used for Christmas and beyond. It measures 7 5" square although it looks oblong in the photo. I have enough fabric left to make a pillowcase or two.
Wishing you a blessed day ~~~ Barb
I guess you would say I have been playing hooky from here lately. Actually I've been busy in the sewing room making Christmas and Halloween items. I have had Christmas spirit since mid Summer. The Morse Code quilt in my last post is done. I made a matching pillowcase also. It's stippled and has a nice light gray scroll backing.
So many things are in the works I had to make a list to keep up with myself.
I took a week from sewing and did load of machine embroidery. Here are a few of the gingerbread men I plan to turn into banners. These were fun to make except the tedious trimming. They will be cute when they are strung together and embellished with satin bows ~~~
Our neighbor wants some Christmas pillow shams, so these embroidered and quilted pieces will become shams for her for Christmas.
There are stacks of bindings for table runners and small projects everywhere.
I hope your holiday projects are coming along well.
Wishing you and yours a great day!
