Polish Pottery Linens

Quite a few of my sister-in-laws collect Polish pottery, so for Christmas I made some Polish pottery themed linens. I used fabric from Mark Lipinski's "Krakow" line.

The hot pads had a simple blue flower on them.

I found toweling at our church's Mission Store and used fabric, lace and ribbon to decorate the towels.

A large trivet with a Dresden plate completed the set.

Christmas Block Exchange

It's been busy holiday season so I'm late at posting the block exchange at our last quilt club meeting. At our December Quilt Club meeting we exchange 12.5 inch quilt squares. I've been making 3 squares and saving one for myself. Eventually I will have enough squares to make a Christmas quilt. This year I used pictures from a redwork panel as the center of my squares.

The border was a variety of red and white squares.

The red inner border was 3-dimensional, folded fabric inserted between the panel and squares.



I received two pretty squares in the exchange. Jan P. made the one below. I love the detail and bright, happy colors.



My second block was made by my best friend, Linda. She used a panel picture for the center and framed it with blue Christmas prints, very nicely done.

Cookies in the Mail

Jenny has been busy baking and I was the lucky recipient of some of her goodies. A package arrived in the mail with three containers of cookies.

The top left container has coconut pineapple oatmeal cookies and apricot almond shortbread. The one on the right has caffeine cookies and rugelach. On the bottom there are chocolate pretzel and potato chip cookies. They are all very tasty. I had to put them in the freezer because they would all be gone before everyone is home for Christmas.

I bought the following pattern to make some hats for our church bazaar.

It didn't take much time to make the four fleece hats. I decorated the side of each with a three dimensional flower with a button center.

Flower Pins

I made flower pins to decorate my friends' Christmas gifts. Because I get bored easily, I used a number of patterns I found online. This is one of my favorites but with all the hand sewing involved I only made one of this design.



Another pattern I found online, but only made one flower.



This was the best flower to construct.



I made two pins using a Clover Kanzashi Flower Maker.



Enjoyed working with the wool felt and learned how to use the Clover tool.

Holly Wreath

On our shop hop this fall, I found a kit to make a wreath wall hanging.



I changed the pattern and made the holly leaves and berries 3-dimensional.



I love to embellish, so I added some green and red Swarovski crystals to the wreath.



I have never applied domes or cabochons before. I tried them by adding gold domes and red cabochons in the border.

Yoyo Dog

Since my great niece, Audrey is only three months old, I think I can post her Christmas present without spoiling her surprise.

I found this vintage pattern in my stash.



Everything I needed to make the yoyo dog was in my collection of fabric and notions.



I hope Audrey will like her new dachshund.

Millington Quilt Club November Meeting

At our quilt club meeting yesterday, Julie shared a quilt she made from scraps.



This is a quilt Cheryl made for Amy's stepson.



Cheryl has also been making American Girl outfits for her great nieces.

Sydney has been making chair covers for Christmas presents.

This is a photo of one of Sydney's Santa hat chair covers.

Jan made a couple of flannel baby quilts for Christmas for Kids, an organization which provides toys, hats, mittens, etc. for needy children.

Faith made this quilt for a friend who has been going through tough times.

Faith made this quilt for her friend who likes horses.

Connie's mother-in-law started a quilt for Connie and her husband's 25th anniversary before she passed away.

Fifteen years later...Connie has taken the pieces and made them into this quilt top.

Carolyn made the following three quilts for Christmas for Kids. Lucky kids who receive them in their package!

Mary's quilt has beautiful handwork around the center of the quilt.

This basket quilt is also Mary's. She hand embroidered the baskets and embellished them with beads.

Nance made these mittens using wool sweaters from Goodwill.

Nancy's grandchildren helped color this quilt top for thier new sibbling.

Nancy appliqued flowers on this beautiful trellis quilt.

Nancy made this quilt for a friend.

Diane made this quilt for a graduation present.

Viola made this pretty quilter's quilt. Her daughter, Julie quilted it.

Viola also made a number of table runners, this is one of them.

Jan made this quilt as part of a retreat.

Jan's mom made this table topper.

This wool felted bag was found at a resale shop!

Jan also made this pretty wool pillow.

Jeanann made this quilt for her grandson. She practiced using her embroidery machine on some of the squares.

Marlene made this table topper for a friend using vintage fabric which had belonged to the friend's mother.

Darlene has also been making mittens from old sweaters.

When Marlene asked if anyone knew how to fold a napkin to look like a Christmas tree, Darlene just happened to have a sample!

Darlene quilted this friendship quilt for the club.

Pat made this apron using a towel. The apron could also be used as an adult bib for someone in a nursing home.

Thanks to Linda, for taking notes while I took photos :)