Wednesday, February 3, 2016

A Few Christmas Traditions

The past couple of years I've been making little Christmas quilts for friends and family and this year I decided to add some homemade lemon curd to the DIY gift making tradition. I wasn't planning at the time to blog about canning my curd, so I didn't get too many good photos of the process, but I did get a few shots of their decorative wrappings.

I embroidered some can toppers with my schmancy sewing machine.

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Here they are all wrapped up and ready to pack off to Chicago and ship to other friends and family.

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For the quilts, I responsibly selected the fabric and the pattern (from my exciting new book Farm Girl Vintage!) over the summer.

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I then proceeded to:

A. Not make the quilts until the 11th hour.

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and B. Not take one stinking picture of the finished quilts! The closest I have is this picture showing the back of one quilt and the binding being attached to another. Also, our cat, Rupert.

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Total quilting fail. Apparently, that's my Christmas tradition, though, because it seems I also failed to take adequate pictures of last year's Christmas quilts. This is all that remains.

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(Other than the quilts themselves, that is. Hopefully they still remain.)

I also made a couple of special quilts for my grandma and my mom. I made a hummingbird for my grandma.

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Of course, I don't have a picture of the finished quilt because, well, it's a tradition. I did, however, get a few pictures of the quilt I made for my mom including this one of me making my very first prairie points!

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So freaking cute. This is an Alice in Wonderland inspired quilt of my own design.

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The backing is made from a vintage sheet.

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Here's the finished front!

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And here's to the first Christmas quilt I apparently ever took pictures of. Maybe next year.  Sigh.

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