Friday, January 17, 2014

Christmas in January

Christmas 2013 may be in the books and packed away in boxes, but I wanted to share the few handmade Christmas gifts I gifted this year.  My sister in law has been hinting that she wanted a Christmas tree skirt like the one I have for about a year now and I decided this Christmas would be the year I pull through and make one for her.  I have been wanting to update the tutorial I put together for it also, so I figured two birds, one stone.  

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Pardon the cell phone pictures, I worked up until the last possible second to finish, and pictures were not in the timetable.  I am really happy with how it turned out, I think I like it even more than the one I have!  I had stocked up on a bunch of Christmas fabric last year when they were crazy on sale and picked through my stash for a bunch of bright red, green and aqua holiday fabric.  My sister in law loved it and it looks just perfect snuggled under her tree.

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As I mentioned, I did spruce up the tutorial for this tree skirt which can be found here, and also now have a printable PDF copy that is available here.  I suppose its never to early to start Christmas sewing for next year!

 In addition to the tree skirt, I also put together two simple patchwork holiday pillows using the same Christmas fabrics.

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Nora helped me with these, its never to early to learn how to quilt, right??  Here's an action shot, I think she was helping me decide whether to use an envelope back or a zipper :-)

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I think this little girl has a future in sewing, as she was in agreement on the envelope back decision.

And with that, I think Christmas 2013 is a wrap!


6 comments:

  1. Love the tree skirt. I just finished quilting one yesterday. I will actually be early this year (that has never happened before)

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  2. Love that Nora looks like she's giving her options deep thought!

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  3. So cute. Nora looks like she's giving the decision deep thought ;-)

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  4. Very pretty! I made 2 square ones, kept one, sold one. Now that is win-win!

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  6. Your Nora is so cute. My sister has a Nora that is almost 15 and so skinny, tall and cute. When I saw your Nora, I thought she is as cute as my sister's Nora and hoping that you have fun with her.

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