Christmas Gift Exchange

     So, every year we have a family gift exchange-usually at my Aunt's house. We each bring a gift then you can unwrap a gift and it's yours unless the next person wants to "steal" your gift then you can pick another or steal another person's gift...hmmm it almost sounds hostile when you write it down, but it's really very fun. Anyways every year it seems like there is one gift that gets stolen the most-meaning it's "wanted" by folks. So I wanted to have the wanted gift this year.

        So I printed off a photo of my Mom and her family when they were kids, onto fabric.

And sewed up a little wall quilt out of the photo.

I cut the fabric letters out using my Slice machine-I wondered how it would do with fabric, and it worked pretty well.

I embellished with some buttons from my Gramma's button box-that's her on the far right of the photo BTW.

And I quilted it with a quick meandering stitch.

And here it is all done and ready to wrap! I'll have to let you know if it's the wanted one this year or not!