3 days to go

And I'm putting away the unfinished gifts and just going to enjoy the rest of the pre-Christmas excitement. I met up with my friend Andrea earlier this week and I gave her this wreath 

The colors are perfect for Andrea's house. I used a different shaped wreath this time and I love how it looks so full and dimensional. These make such great gifts.

wordless wednesday

back-up plans

I had a wee little accident yesterday involving my travel mug of tea and my sister in law's quilt. Should I mention that the quilt is white? *sigh*.  A few treatments of Grandma's Secret Spot Remover didn't work. Bleach didn't work. So I abandoned the quilt and went to my back-up plan. I was going to finish this quilt originally for Erica because I didn't think I would have the white one done. But I got the back-up plan quilted(bound it last night and popped it in the mail this morning) and mom surprised me with the news that she got the tea stain out of Erica's original quilt so I will get that finished up and mailed off to her in the new year. Yay for moms!

In the end it all worked out. I got a phone call from Hamels yesterday; they had one more quilt, could I possibly get it done?

quilted with Laurie

The pattern is a Coach House Designs pattern. Barb has a book coming out in the Spring; mom and I quilted all the quilts in her book. One of the quilts I did was chosen to be on the book cover; so exciting!

quilt monday

Christmas holidays; love them! We all slept in this morning; except for Jim. He's working until Wednesday than off the rest of the year. I finished 2 Christmas presents off last night and am heading over to work today to quilt the third. I'll have to show you a sneak peek before it gets mailed off tomorrow.

Here are the teacher gifts for this year.

Smaller than I had expected but that was good since it took no time at all to get these cuties appliqued and quilted up.

Happy Monday :)

annnnnnnnd it's a wrap!

I got the last two customer quilts done this afternoon and that wraps my year of quilting-woo hoo! I am shocked I got them all done and on time even! To celebrate, a friend and I made these little cuties this afternoon.

tutorial can be found here 

I added this  

subway art printable here 

I love how it ties into my new Christmas colors this year.

don't take a picture on the piano when someone is playing the piano. 

card friday

wordless wednesday

quilt monday

I was hoping to have a new Winter quilt finished to show you today but I spent the weekend doing our Christmas cards(they are DONE!) so not a lot of sewing time. I did sneak in some time Saturday evening but that isn't finished yet either lol.

So another table runner to show you. I have two more in the works then I am finished with my table runner craze. At least I am hoping to be finished with them!

quilted with Bountiful Feathers

I just realized that I never got a picture of the runner all laid out. Sorry! It's a disappearing 9 patch using a charm square pack of Grace. Love that line!

Today is the start of my last week at work for the year. And a long week it will be. If all goes well, knock on wood, I'll be finished all the quilts right on time for Friday. Than it's time to enjoy some time off!