Saturday, December 27, 2014

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.


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All of the pieces created
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Mug Rugs

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Two Small Christmas Tree Pillows
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Small Christmas Pillow with backing

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Close up of the Hand Quilting on Tree Pillow

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Close up of the Hand Quilting on Tree Pillow

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Machine Quilting on the Tree Pillow

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Machine Quilting on the Tree Pillow

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

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Close up of machine quilting on Mariner's Star Pillow

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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!
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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!
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Doing some planner organization at Starbucks!

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Printable for my Swaps and an inspirational card

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Getting January organized with dates for work and home
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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!

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