MERRY CHRISTMAS

I wish you all a peaceful and very happy Christmas.

COLOURS

I was lucky this week and managed to have some time to sew things for me! I could finish this wall-hanging. I had made the stitchery back in spring I think and I had bought the fabric for the border. Well here it is at last and in time before Christmas!

I had told you that I wanted to dye some yarn with food coloring, well I did. With a friend we had a nice afternoon in the garden and dyed three skeins.
I will show you what the yarns looked like before dying, some baby blue ( I must have bought that colour about 8 years ago as my son was still a baby), white and cream.
And this is the result, first as skeins and then as balls. The colours are quite true apart from the green which is a bit brighter in real.
Not too bad but we had to use up all the food coloring (2 packs with 4 colours each) and I think the colours are not as dark as with Kool Aid. My friend got hooked I think, so it won´t be the last dying taking place in our garden!

I have been machine quilting my scrappy star quilt and it is coming out fast! Some pictures next week.

I wish you a nice week.

CHRISTMAS QUILT

It seems on the quilt blog world that everybody is busy sewing hundreds of wonderful presents! I can hear the sewing machines purring!

This quilt hangs at Christmas time in our living-room. In real the colours are warmer and the wall is vanilla. It is machine sewed and hand quilted.
I got the pattern from there. It is in german but the drawings are easy to understand. If problems, please contact me!

Then I have been making some Christmas decoration:

They are made out of felt and hand stitched. They are great small presents to thank special persons and also they are nice bring-alongs to Advent coffees.

Then I made some bags to put presents in. I won the panel fabric at Nadine´s and I thought it would be just right to use it that way. I even used the border pattern as a ribbon! These bags will prevent having to wrap up to many presents and save on paper too!

Last week my DS was sick with a cold and now I have it. So for the next week, or the next 7 days with medicine (saying at our place!), I will go around with a running nose.

I wish you a nice third Advent.

ADVENT, ADVENT, ...

The month of December has started and with it our Advent calendar.
The quilt we use for that effect is an older one (about 10 years old) from a Fons and Porter book, with a lot of buttons. The quilt is scrappy, machine sewed, hand appliquéed in buttonhole stitch (before child time!) and hand quilted.

It hangs the whole year long in our kitchen and brings a bit of colour on a white wall but in December it looks like this:

The buttons come very handy! I don´t think Fons and Porter had thought about that when the created the model!

The little bags are full of treats like tatoos, playmobil, tapes and sweets. The big yellow bag is for St Nicolas on the 6th of December with two treats!

On my free day last week, I sewed the cushion for my nephew. I got the pattern for the digger from a colouring page. It is machine appliquéed and machine sewed.

That´s one more Christmas present finished!

Tomorrow I wanted to do some shopping for some more pressies but my DS is sick with a bad cold and a nasty cough so I think we will stay indoor, drink a lot of herbal tea with honey and make some Christmas decoration.
I wish you a nice week.