Christmas Gift

The first Christmas gift has been given and has a new home. Last week at the Leduc guild we exchanged gifts, it was to be for your table. I made a tea cozy with selvages.  

Here is the other side.

When I had the two halves done and trimmed to size. 

I made the cozy kind of quickly and this is what my floor looked like when I was done. My bag of selvages had exploded. 

I will have to show what I got! soon. 

Christmas Is coming

I got my Christmas Tree shirt finished. Years ago I made a very plain looking skirt, it got some stains was not nice to start with but it did the job. So for years I have thought I needed to make a good quilted tree skirt. Finally it is done. I cheated a little and my mom, Betty did the patchwork. I picked the colours and did the quilting and binding. 

Last year, our tree was cut from our land and I think we will be taking another one that we planted about 15 years ago. We have a very small tree plantation. We planted maybe 800 tees planted. We used some in our yard and about 30 for my parents farm yard ( now sold ). I am so happy that this year the tree will have a good looking finish to it. My Husband is in Forestry so we have always done a real tree. 

Here is the quilting. I did holly leaves and berries all over it. The prints are so busy it does not show the quilting. 

This is the skirt hanging at the Leduc quilt show. 

Wednesday night was the Leduc guild meeting and the Christmas Pot luck dinner. We have a little Christmas exchange each year. This year it was to be something for the kitchen. I did the little selvage pot holders, above. In return I got the snow men place mats. Jan made the place mats and they are so cute. Thank you Jan. 

I have linked up to Crazy Mom Quilts and Confessions of a Fabric Addict. Go see what else has been finished by the others. 

Design Wall Monday

I have some lime green rail fence checkerboard blocks done. Green and lime are two different colours in my stash. I have a scrap box just for lime green. I once did a quilt where the back ground was lime. I got started on the rail fence checkerboard blocks after being inspired by Bonnie Hunters and her leaders and ender challenge. Go check out her post about the rail fence challenge. 

I needed a gift to give away so I got a good start with my selvages. I think I will keep going and make some for myself. I have used the heat resistant silver fabric and plan these to be hot mats. They still need a binding. 

I have added this post to Small Quilts and Doll Quilts, and Make it Monday. 

Selvage Post Cards

The Edmonton and District Quilter's Guild is having the year end banquet tonight. They will be a Fund raiser for the University of Alberta Endowment fund that the guild set up many years ago. I have made this set of 3 post cards to donate to the fund. Mom and I spent a day last week making a set each. 

They are so cute it is hard to let them go. Maybe I should make more. I used Selvages as the background and then fussy cut the maple out of fabric. Land, sky and sea. 

I have added this post to Sew Fresh Quilt, and Let's Bee Social #182.

Selvage Place Mats

I have been cutting off selvage bits and saving them. My mom also gives me some too. I was sewing some of the little ones into a little strip set but did not know what I would do. Well here they are. I have made 8 place mats. 

I love the word ones

Here are all 8 together. Now that I have shown them off I can start to use them. 

I have added this post to Crazy Mom Quilts Finish up Friday

Friday Finish and Puppy Love

I have been really busy this past month and not much sewing. I also have had computer troubles. Sorry for not posting much. 

I got this table mat done. I have some of these heavy cork mats but they are looking sad so I made a cover for one of them. I used all selvages and used a "quilt as you go" method.  

There are some very cute selvages.

I have added the post to Crazy Mom Quilts

Here is the back, Limes. I first made the pocket in the middle but the cover would not go over the stiff mat so I had to change the opening at one end so the mat could go inside. I will know for next time.

Cuteness Overload.

I got a new puppy. This is Gemma my Black Lab Pup. Now you know what else has kept me busy. We picked her up Jan 1st at 8 weeks old. These photos are just a few days after we got home. I already need more new photos, she is growing. I have plans to do Agility with her. I might have to get in shape and learn to run faster. 

Here she is next to Lex, wow what a size difference. 

Now that I seam to have some of my computer trouble smoothed over maybe I can get back to posting a few times a week.  

Finish it up Friday - Tea Cosy

I have been saving selvages for a while. I finally finished a project that used a few up. I love drinking tea every day and make a good sized pot every morning. Before long it is cold. So a Tea Cosy was needed. It is so much fun to use the salvages from projects long past. I did not make a dent in the bag of selvages I have. 

I have added the little finish to Crazy Mom Quilts Finish it up Friday
I will have it done and ready for the Quilt Show in Leduc (at the Niski Inn) Oct 18 and 19th. I have so much more to finish by the time the quilt show rolls around.

Missing Sorry

Sorry I have been missing. I am having computer trouble. I can get on one of the other computers in the house but you know it is not the same. I have to learn a different edit program down load my photos on to someone else's computer.

I have done so much stuff this summer and not posted so much of it. I will try to get back to it this week. Maybe a summer in review.

This little tiny bag was made for my mom's birthday. It is so small, I am not sure what she can use it for. Maybe her change.

Off to sew with friends today. Binding. I have got one of my quilts machine quilted. Yes photos soon.