"Making a list, checking it twice".....

Have been trying to wrap up my Christmas sewing projects.  Some are gifts, some aren't.

The Christmas stocking for baby Chloe, my newest great-niece.  Front....

....back.

This is crochet hook keeper....a gift.  I received one from someone and thought it was a good idea, so I tried making my own.  I need to buy some hooks and a small pair of scissors to put in it.  You roll it up and slip the elastic over it.  I love the one that I have and use it to keep all my hooks together and ready to use.

A Christmas table topper that I finished.  I made three different ones of these and posted them unfinished in an earlier post.  Finally got all the bindings sewn on.

My sister asked me to make a bag for her to give as a gift to a friend.  I like making these bags and they are easy and a nice way to try out a block pattern.

I made this quilt top to give to our service projects group in our quilt guild.  I can't quilt it for them, but someone else will donate the quilting time or they will tie it.  I decided it was time to cut up and use some of the floral fabrics I had accumulated over the years!

Speaking of service projects:  This quilt was made by the quilters in the Wabash Valley Correctional Institute (male prisoners). It is a gift for my husband for his volunteer work with them....tutoring, teaching, and gathering quilting supplies for them.  Isn't it gorgeous?????  What a great pattern and more complicated than anything I've ever made.  These guys are good quilters even if they only tie their quilts.  And they can't even use a rotary cutter or rulers like we do.  I can't imagine making this with kindergarten scissors!

Here it is thrown on a bed.  I need to figure out how to get better photos of it.

I got my orange quilt back from the quilter and it is beautiful!  She quilted flames in the orange blocks for me and some beautiful heart shaped flowers in the border that echo the print.  I with you could see the great quilting.  I just love this and hope it makes me feel "toasty" warm this winter!  The back has a bright orange flannel.  Should have taken a photo of the back, too.

Sewing like crazy!......

I think I have sewn more stuff in the last month than I sewed the rest of the year!  I have really been on a roll with a lot of different projects and have more in the planning stages.

I completed this blue quilt for my son.....I call it "Underground Blues". 

I thought I took a photo of it when it was finished, but I guess I was so anxious to get all the cat hair off of it that I folded it up after I rolled it good and forgot to take a photo.  He is getting ready to move into an apartment, so maybe I can get a photo once it is on his bed.

Another corner shot of it.  I made him three pillowcases to go with it, as well.  I love making pillowcases!

I made this pair for my husband and me.  I saw that cool black fabric with the planes and zeppelins and knew he would love it.  So I dug around in my stash and found that black and white paisley to make me a case.  Mine has a black border with cat paw prints on it in honor of Hopey, who "puts us to bed" every night :-)

While I was in the pillowcase making mood.....I made the Grinch case for Mike and will find something green to make me a Christmas one to go with it.  The other pair were just a way to use some fabric I've had for a long time (the yellow is the band, the green floral the case), and the black ones behind them match the border of the quilt that you see on that bed......sort of.  They have bands of that dotted fabric.

I made two "Angel Quilts" for our quilt guild....they give them to the local hospitals.  These really went together fast.  Since I had extra pieces I made another slightly larger one for my sister's newest granddaughter and a doll quilt and pillow for her 4 year old sister.

I finally started working on the stocking for the same great-niece.  Got all the fabric and trims on, now I get to do the fun part...the crazy quilt stitching!

I found a cute pattern for a little Christmas table topper in an old magazine and have finished one....the top one...and have two others waiting for the binding.  These will be Christmas gifts when done.

I made a stack of wine glass coasters in Christmas fabrics, too for gifts.  These are fun to make!  They slip over the foot of the wine glass so you are carrying around your coaster and also marking your glass so you know which one is yours.  I've made others from wine design fabrics and batiks.

I'm starting a new quilt.....a blue and white one....so I have been cutting squares of fabric in two sizes.  I have enough blue and need to cut lots of white ones yet!

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The orange quilt in the post below is now at the quilters, so I will be finishing that up soon.  I have a dozen other projects in my head at the moment and just hope all this inspiration lasts and I keep working at these things!  Of course, I'm not getting much blogging done.........