A Finished Christmas Order

Merry (late) Christmas! 

I am posting this a bit late but time has gotten away from me. I have been busily sewing and spending some wonderful quality time with my husband and family.

Quick warning: This is a picture heavy post! 

A lovely friend at work asked me to create some gifts for her for family members. I posted about them originally here. I didn't actually finish them all up until Monday afternoon. Yep, it took me a month to finish the six pieces. In my defense I was quite busy at work and also had to travel to Illinois for my sister-in-law's Ph.D. graduation.

Here are the pictures of the finished products! You can find the patterns in my previous post here.

All of the pieces created

Mug Rugs

Two Small Christmas Tree Pillows

Small Christmas Pillow with backing

Close up of the Hand Quilting on Tree Pillow

Close up of the Hand Quilting on Tree Pillow

Machine Quilting on the Tree Pillow

Machine Quilting on the Tree Pillow

Mariner's Star Pillow -- finished at 19" square

Close up of machine quilting on Mariner's Star Pillow

Close up of machine quilting on Mariner's Star Pillow

According to my friend, her family loved their handmade gifts! That makes my heart glad!

I was also able to quickly finish up a sewing machine cover for my mother using the November's Classic Block from SewCanShe. It took me most of Christmas Eve but I did get it done. Here's a picture of the front. I completely forgot to take a picture of the back!

Front of my mother's new sewing machine cover complete with a Yankee Puzzle!

I had a wonderful Christmas Day with my mother, sister, niece, nephews and husband. Too many happies to count!

I spent most of yesterday getting my 2015 planner organized. I am excited to share that I will be participating in a few swaps through Facebook in the new year. To help keep me on track, I created a couple of printables. I also needed to get my life in order! I'm still working on the perfect system but at least I have a little one in place now. Here's a picture where I currently!

Doing some planner organization at Starbucks!

Printable for my Swaps and an inspirational card

Getting January organized with dates for work and home

Inspirational cards to be placed throughout my planner

I'm switching things up by including the above cards but I know that they'll make me happy every time I come across one in my planner.

I'm linking up with Confessions of a Fabric Addict and Crazy Mom Quilts. If you are here from there, HI!! Please go check out the other links through their sites.

Happy sewing!