Christmas Wrap Up

One of my New Year's resolutions was to post on my blog more often. We are already a week into the new year, and this is my first post. It has been so long since I've posted that I want to post some photos of Christmas. We had a wonderful holiday with lots of family time. I hope you had the same.

This is the Christmas quilt that hung over the railing at the top of my stairs. The center is a feathered star that I made for a round robin and then decided to do something else. The blocks are from a Dear Jane Christmas swap a few years ago.

This is one of the Christmas cactus that my friend, Vicky, from Wisconsin gave me last April. I was surprised that I could make it bloom, but here it is.

I made these wine totes for Christmas presents. The pattern can be found in the book Let's Do Lunch by Terry Atkinson. This book has lots of quick to do table runners and tote bags.

We went to my son and daughter-in-laws house for New Year's Day. We had afternoon tea and scones. Later that day we had tortilla soup with all the fixings for dinner. It was a nice day.

I took Poppy Seed bread. This is one of our holiday favorites. I will be glad to share the recipe if anyone is interested.

I did some fabric shopping before Christmas. This is Moda's Louisa layer cake with some yardage for a border.

This is a pack of Charm Squares I bought called Gypsy Rose. Of course, it's by Moda. I thought this would make a nice bedroom throw.

After Christmas my daughter and I went yarn shopping. She is an engineer and an awesome knitter. Can you guess which yarn group she bought? Yes. She chose the pretty blue group. I, on the other hand, look like I closed my eyes and just grabbed whatever was close.

I actually did knit a scarf over Christmas but my daughter took it back to Alabama with her before I got a photo. Hope you are all having a Happy New Year.

Blog Award

Hello Everyone

I received a Cool Blog Award from Julie of Julie's Blog. She gave me this award before Thanksgiving, and today something made me remember it. I am supposed to give this award to ten more bloggers, so I'm just going to give the award to all of you that are listed over in my Favorites. It would be hard to just choose 10 of you. So do a right click and put this award on your blogs and then link back to mine. Thank you Julie!!!!!

It has been so long since my last post that you probably thought that I fell off the face of the earth. My hubby had hernia surgery a little over a week ago, and I've just been busy trying to get caught up with Christmas.

I just finished knitting these fingerless gloves for a Christmas present. The yarn is a Trendsetter Yarn called Merinos Otto Shadow. This is the third pair of these gloves I've made. If you are a knitter and haven't tried cables, they are really pretty easy for as complex as they look.

This is my first pair done in the same yarn but a different colorway.

I finished these socks out of worsted weight yarn awhile ago. They are reallly warm..I've worn them and they are great for winter.

This is a fabric pack that I bought in Shipshewana. It is called Metro Blue Gone Green. I think this pack has 5 yards of fabric and I have 3 other fabrics from this line. Now I just need to come up with an idea of what to do with it. Any ideas?

Twenty Four Days Until Christmas

Tomorrow is December 1 already, and we still have some Thanksgiving leftovers hidden in the back of the refrigerator. Because Thanksgiving Day fell late in November, we have less time to get things ready for Christmas. We still have time so there's no need to panic yet...right? The outside lights are all finished, and the family room Christmas tree is up. It has lights and a few ornaments and will be finished soon. Tomorrow I'll put the blue tree up in the dining room.

Yesterday we went downtown to the Indiana State Museum to listen to a Christmas concert given by the Circle City Ringers. I love listening to handbell music. My son has several hand bell pieces being published by Beckenhorst Press. The Circle City Ringers played Wizards in Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. You can hear it on my playlist in the side bar. I think any group that even attempts that piece is awesome.

The museum is all decorated for Christmas, too. This is Santa's mailbox.

This was just a nice spot where you could sit and enjoy the Christmas tree and listen to the sounds of Christmas.There might be some time tomorrow for some stitching while I regroup. I hope so because I'm about to finish up another big project. Have a good evening.

LuAnn