Christmas Catch UP!

 Ben stopped over to visit the other day, so I asked if he wanted to put together a Christmas present for Dylan. Sure! 

There is a little copy cat here..... Anyways, It's a table and chairs set I got for Dilly. Assembly challenged the adult and amused the toddler.

Here's the finished project.

I took Ringo for a nice Christmas Day walk at Kent Park. The weather was very nice! 

I sewed small string backpacks for the kids to put their Christmas haul in. It's a very cute, handy project. The directions can be found at Sew Can She. 

We had supper at our house on Christmas Day and handed out the gifts.  Not that we handed out appliances or anything, but, I paid for Bean to have these beautiful appliances installed at their house. 

For some reason I didn't take pictures of presents opening!  Only this one!

And the annual family snapshot...always a challenge.

At least Bean looks happy in their picture!

It was a bust few days wrapping up with Soup and sandwiches at Julie's house. 

I rolled up the saran wrap game once again. They seemed to like it pretty well again. 

This year I had smaller items to roll in the wrap, so a smaller ball.

Everyone had fun with that.

Phew! I'm going to go sew a little bit now and relax! 

The annual Bonnie K Hunter Mystery Quilt is in the works, now's my chance to catch up on this rainy day!

Waiting for the predicted snow to arrive and prepare for another week of Dilly Duty! 

Snow! Snow! Snow!

 

We got the first snow right after Thanksgiving and it seems like we go a few days of nice weather and then more snow.

Ringo likes it well enough!

And I'm sure glad I got the heat track mats out when I did! 

This little guy wasn't quite ready for the first snow

He didn't bring his snow boots and he didn't pack his snow pants and hat. Luckily, I had one of ben's old hats, and some littler knit gloves and he had his hiker shoes, so it wasn't terrible. 

Here's what he does.....

Goes out and eats snow.

I keep telling him he's not a dog, but still, he loves to eat snow. Watch for that yellow snow though Dilly Boy!

And don't call DHS on me either-he always pops out the door without a coat on......and yesterday it was in PJs and slippers!

It was only about 20degrees out, but he wanted to go out so he took off FAST! Well at least he had Grampa's hat on!!LOL!

I had to chase him around to the back of the house before I caught up to him!

There we go, all outfitted correctly!

Out eating snow with Ringo. 

Winter Quilt

 So, I bought this cute tree template on the shop hop and thought it was a great idea for scraps. 

Sewing With Susan, is the company I got the template from.

Anyway, I opened up the green scrap bin and got busy, Dilly helped too. 

Then I got busy with a pretty snowy quilt design. Again, it's pretty dense and took a lot of bobbins and a solid 8 hours of Freddie and me working. It is pretty though!

And here it is on the quilt rack. Looks good!

I love the green scraps, see the TMNT?

This one is about 60"X75" so pretty good sized. 

On the darker trees you can see the design really well. 

It was about 3 degrees outside so no clothes line pictures!

I used up this funny stripe on the back-It's been in the stash for a long time!

Bob approves of the nice green striped binding too. 

Seasonal Quilt

 

SO the space between Halloween and Thanksgiving needs a fall quilt I think! I got these fat quarters at a yard sale awhile back-perfect colors!

I've had this pattern for awhile, too, so it's going to be perfect!

Oopsy, not perfect......

I fixed it

Here we are, much better, I won't choose this quilting design again-it is dense!!!

And I used a different thread-new to me called, Superior Threads Omni V. It was a variegated gold/brown color so it looks great with the leaves. 

It was a windy day, but here are the clothesline pictures.

I like the fall leaves with the blue sky background.

Look at that pretty leaf design I chose to quilt. 

The back is some 108 I got on sale on the shop hop this summer. 

You really can't see the quilting design too well on it. 

But you can see it on the front! It's called Dancing Leaves, and if I ever do it again, I'll make it much larger! This took something like 12 bobbins!

I've got a plan for a Winter quilt now!
Oh I almost forgot...I was at my long arm group meeting and the folks talked about using this measuring device, and one lady said Oh just make one , you can get the stuff at hob lob. Well I don't even need to go to Hob Lob.  It's just a long bit of round elastic with toggles attached. I have this nice orange elastic, and lots of hood toggles, so I made one for myself!

See, I attached the elastic onto the roller bar at both ends, with 3 toggle markers on the elastic. 

There! Now I move the toggles to the edges and the center, or seams,  of the quilt and then I can keep an eye on the alignment as I quilt!.

Easy peasy! And it's adjustable for any quilt!

Look here's a link to one for sale..... $39 HUH!