Sew Saturday November....

There were 6 of this month at the Sew Saturday after Thanksgiving. I finally completed 2 of my Christmas runners that I now hope to sell, if I can figure out what a fair price would be. Both runners have the same center blocks which I machine pieced last month. I lightly machine quilted around them and did a bit of decorative hand stitching on the tops with embroidery thread.
The backs are different.

I love the rose fabric on the back of this one.

June is doing beautiful applique work on this quilt top she bought on the Treasure Table.

Earlene was sewing blocks together for a quilt with a spring look.

Rosie was making a raggy blue jean quilt.

Mary Jane had put her Krazy Quilt blocks together for a small lap quilt and was adding borders. She used the lovely black floral for the outer border and I wish I had a shot of it...very pretty!

I always manage to miss someone. Charlotte was cutting out pieces to make paperback book covers for Christmas presents. Nice little gifts! I didn't get a picture of them.

Sew Saturday is always a lot of fun and it makes me get busy and work on things that I put off when I am at home. Sewing with friends is always more fun :-)

Christmas stockings done!....

I finally finshed the 4 Christmas stockings that my sister commissioned from me to go with the one that I made her granddaughter last year. Click on any photo to make it larger. Here are the 4 toes :-) The fronts get a patchwork look and fancy hand stitching.
The backs get a striped look and just a few added details other then the lace trims.

Mary's was the most unusual because of her choice of colors and fabrics and harder to work with. I try to make each one different in some way. She got a wreath with ribbon roses, fancy buttons, silver snowflake buttons.

Dorothy's got that unusual piece of lace trim that I put on the toe and a ribbon wreath, poinsettias and candles and musical notes (she sings and plays piano)

Peter loves castles and such. Also, he is a strong Christian, so he got a "Strong Tower" and a couple of shields (the sheild of faith to ward off the enemies arrows).

Abi likes irises and I had a lot of fun learning to do ribbon irises on hers. They chose their basic colors. These were fun, but doing 4 at once was a job. Of course, I had an entire year and didn't have to wait until the last minute!.....but I did. Will mail these as soon as I take them and show them to my quilt guild. I hope to make a couple of generic ones without so much stitching to sell before Christmas. No names. I hated doing the names most of all. Very hard to keep the thread tight enough and I was not real happy with the names.