Outgoing Holiday Presents & Exchange Items for 2014

It is that time of the year again for holiday presents, exchanges, swaps, and secret santa, etc.  Working on two of them on the internet this year. Made up 2 sets of similar items for them plus a couple of different items for them.  Was fun to do up.

25 Weeks Santa Swap on Yahoo Groups. All done up and ready to go out in the mail in a few days.
 
Sewing Goodies Holiday Swap on Facebook. Sent all out Saturday, 11/15. She should recieve it today, Monday, 11/17 or tomorrow, Tuesday, if USPS is on schedule.
 
Loved the holiday owl fabric that I used for both of the swaps, like what I used on this medium size table scarf  for the 25 Weeks Secret Santa swap.
 
along with using it on the placemats, 2 sets of 4 of them.
 
and the oven mits, 2 sets of 2 of them.
 
Of course, they all are reversible to different fabrics on the other sides of them...
 
The owl scarf backing: Used a blue fabric with strings of light bulbs for the backing. On the front of this scarf I also used one of the strip fabrics that is on the back of the placemats for its edging.
 
The placemats backing: Sewed strips of fabric sewed together to make the backings up for them. Being on the creative side.  Also used some red binding on the placemats too.
 
Two of the owl oven mits have the sewn strips of fabric on the other side them and the red binding on them.
 
The other two of the  owl oven mits have this red fabric on the back of them with the red binding. I split these two the pairs up because I also used this red fabric elsewhere...
 
On the two microwave safe potato bags, one goes with each of the two swaps. These are made out of all cotton, the fabric, the thread and the batting for them to make them microwave safe, same as used on the microwave safe bowl potholders. Didn't get any of them done up.
 
This medium size table scarf has birds on it, the cardinals, with some of them being red. This scarf was included in the Sewing Goodies Holiday Swap.
 
 With the backing of the cardinals scarf having the strings of lightbulbs on the blue background on it and along the edges of it.
 
Also made up one of those half aprons that has a row of 3 pockets going across the bottom of it with the cardinals fabric. Used a brown fabric with small red flowers on it for the waistband and the ties. The apron went in the package with the cardinals scarf for teh Holiday Swap.
 
Included a large pin cushion in the Santa Swap package that I also made up.
 
 Another view of the pin cushion.
 
Also included totes and gift bags in these swaps.
 
 These 3 went to the 25 Weeks Secret Santa Swap
 
 With these 3 going to the Sewing Goodies Holiday Swap.
 
 
**********************************
 
 
 I didn't send all out... I kept this one for myself.
 It is like an over-sized pot holder. It is made up from the fabric strips used on the placemats and the potholders along with a different one for the edging.

It reverses to this side. It is the perfect size for my oval shaped slow cooker/crock pot... I can hang it up like a wall decoration. Used other fabric strips on ths side along with the center strip being the owl fabric. The one fabric strips on this side has red and purple grapes with green leaves on it. Also use that fabric on my wine glass holder necklaces when I make them up, which can be seen at www.wghn.blogspot.com
 
Going to work on more of the oven mits, microwave potato bags, aprons, and possibly some of those microwave bowl potholders for other people for more holiday gifts for these upcoming holidays. They are all well recieved by my relatives and friends as holiday gifts in past years.
 
 

 
 
 




 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Stringing Quilt Blocks

Image
Stringing 2 Quilt Blocks Stringing quilt blocks isn't as hard as one may think it is to do.  (You can click on the photos to enlarge them and to reduce them back to their original size or hit return if that doesn't work for you to down-size them) First of all, is the preparation, cutting the pieces of fabric up... I'm working with Half Square Triangles (HST) for making each of these two 12.5 inch quilt blocks. I'm using two different methods to make the pink quilt block up. I'll be working with both 4" and 8" fabric squares to do same. For the one with the PINK print:  I'll be using four 4" squares of pink fabric and four 4" squares of white fabric. Plus one piece of white fabric 8" square and one piece of black fabric 8" square.  From these, I'm going to end up with 16 HST's 3.5" square. For the one with the YELLOW fabric, I'll be working with one piece of yellow fabric 8" square, one pi
Read more
Image
My "Pat Sloan's Grandma's Kitchen Challenge"  Quilt Blocks  #'s 1 to 13 (Half-way done)      Working on 25 free quilt blocks from Pat Sloan on Facebook in her "Grandma's Kitchen Challenge."  Adding them as I complete them. Expect to be using some ladybugs and polka dot fabrics on most of them.      The block sizes are 12.5" x 12.5" unless noted otherwise. They'll finish off to 12 inches square when sewn into a quilt or the like. Been adding a white border to the smaller blocks in this series to enlarge them to this size.      Every Wednesday Pat lists a different block for us to do. For more info on the challenge and these blocks, go to Pat's website, www.patsloan.com and follow the link there for her Facebook web pages and for this challenge ,which started up in June, 2017.  Will try to get back here every week for the rest of the blocks as I make them up.      I bought a couple of Pat's quilting books from Am
Read more

My Disney Frozen Sisters Mini Quilt

Image
Afraid that I made this quilt up as I went along... First one of this kind that I ever made up. It is a pannel quilt...  It is only my 3rd quilt. All 3 were made up within the past 5 years... With about 60 years of sewing under my belt, I just used common sense when working on all of them.   Showing the finished mini quilt by laying it on the couch Actually, with the first two, used my Brother SE350 as shown below with my first one, the Strawberry Cake quilt. I used the design on the back for making straight line sewing on the whole quilt, not like the Disney Frozen Sisters mini quilt, with changing directions, etc. The second quilt had the same backing as the first one, but, in yellow, and done up the same way as the first one.    See both of them on my other (older) blog, http://www.oceanpeg.blogspot.com/search/label/quilt     Did not take any photos until I was ready to put the side bindings on the Disney mini quilt, so, winging it in trying to illustrate the
Read more