My Fresh Sewing Day and Small Blog Meet for December

Hi,  On the first day of the month over at Lily’s Quilts, she has a Fresh Sewing Day and Small Blog Meet. This is a time to share what all you have completed or worked on during the previous month. The Small Blog Meet is for bloggers’ who have under 50 followers to get word out about their blogs and what they are doing so they can meet other like minded folks.

During the month of November, I was actually quite productive. I had the honor of testing two new quilt patterns for designers and I also finished up quilting two quilt tops that I had started earlier this year and have gifted them as early Christmas gifts.

I pattern tested Plus Dash for The Colorful Fabriholic. I made the twin size top with 20 different pastel prints with pewter gray pluses. I have the top finished, and a back pieced for it. It will be basted together this week and the quilting started so I can give it as a Christmas gift to a good friend from high school who just lost her sister inlaw to cancer. My friend is a minister and grief counselor and does so much for everyone, that I wanted to find a way to bring her some comfort during the holidays.

I also pattern tested Looking Glass for Meadow Mist Designs. I made the queen size top with Zen Chic Comma prints. I have the top completed and a back created for it as well. Since this top will be our family, I will be likely holding off to quilting it now til the beginning of the new year.

***** Please head over to my blog post on the pattern release for Looking Glass as I am giving away a free pdf copy of Looking Glass pattern.

To enter contest,  just leave a  comment on what you might be making as a special Christmas gift this year.  For another entry, if you follow my blog in some fashion, just leave another comment on how you follow,  or if you would like to follow my blog, you can earn another entry too.  This is open to everyone even international followers, just will need an email to send the pattern to you. Contest is open til Friday, December 5th. ****************

A winner has been chosen:  Sarah Craig.

I completed the quilting on my patriotic Square in a Square quilt that I started many moons ago. I gave it to my Uncle Bill, who is a Viet Nam Veteran. He had heart surgery last year around Thanksgiving and had complications that he ended up having a stroke. He has since recovered. It was so wonderful to be able to see him for Thanksgiving this year. I think I actually brought him to tears giving him this quilt. Welcome Home, Bill.

I also completed my Broken Frames quilt top. I gave this as an early Christmas gift to my Aunt Bobbie. She is my Dad’s sister inlaw but she was like a sister to my Mom. I know she misses my Mom as much as I do, so I wanted to do something nice for her. The quilt just blew her away. She truly loves it. She wanted to know what she did to deserve it, since she did not “go overseas” like her brother inlaw Bill. She is so funny, she had to call and thank me again the next day and said she was changing the sheets on her bed for my quilt. LOL  I will be blogging more about this quilt finish this week and show more photos.

So I would have to say that the month of November was quite productive around here. I am well on my way to having my Christmas sewing completed. I drive my husband crazy with my late nights of sewing. I make plans of things I want to make, and as the days get closer to the holidays, sometimes I start dropping things off the list. Well, I am more productive possibly from starting this blog. Last year with the death of my Mom, I only finished one quilt for Christmas for my Dad. This year, I all ready have High Tea completed for a gift in addition to the two tops above all ready gifted out, and the Plus Dash will be heading out the door hopefully soon. That leaves me with one more major quilt to make for a Christmas gift. I am looking at making a quilt for friends who are Minnesota Vikings fans. So of course the quilt will be purple and gold. I have a couple quilting/sewing projects to complete as gifts for our daughter’s birthday in there as well. I have a few small sewing projects like cases for tablet computers and Kindles to create as well that will be small gifts.

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Until next time.

Happy Sewing,

Shelley