and that means showing you my latest projects, as
promised. When I agreed on Sunday to
participate in the blog hop party that the Quilting Gallery is hosting, I wrote
that I wanted to try my hand at making a couple of quilted Christmas stockings
and that I’d give one as my prize.
Well, here’s the first of those stockings. I had a pretty green Christmas fabric with festive gingerbread men and cute little decorations. So, I decided to follow the gingerbread men's lead and appliqué
a man on the front of the stocking.
To create his face, I used a simple zigzag stitch, but to
replicate his buttons, I chose one of the fancy machine stitches. I had fun going through my
rickrack stash for this tiny trim at his hands and feet.
The winner of the giveaway will receive a stocking like this one, although I'm hoping to make another one, elf stocking style, with the curled-up toe. If that one works out, the winner may choose either style. I'm hoping to design and make that stocking this weekend.
I worked on another
small project this week--this cute little holiday quilt. I really
intended to make a table runner, but somehow this one ended up being only about
place mat size!
Too bad it's too big to
go to AAQI, but it is. I haven't decided exactly what to do with it, but
I think it may end up on the coffee table: it's just too small for the dining
table.
It was a fun, easy project and I made in an improvisational style...flying by the seat of my britches, which is a fun way to work, if you don't mind ending up with different size projects than planned.
I chose to use several plaid fabrics in the same line or color family and tossed in a solid for a calming effect. I cut the trees by hand with no particular size in mind, but once I liked the size and shape of the triangle, I cut them all to match. I chose to use the hot pink solid for the tree trunks for a little unexpected surprise.
As I appliqued the trees down, I added some batting for a trapunto effect. Then I quilted with my usual stipple design and threw in some stars, swirls and scrolls. Finally, I stitched a couple of plastic star-shaped beads to the top of each tree.
I had planned to couch down some gold beads, but that didn't pan out as I'd hoped, so I took them all off. That's all there is to this little quilty piece. It was fun, easy and all complete in a few hours.
1 comment:
Those quilting look great!!!
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