Santa Ornaments

After I finished all my Christmas gifts I didn't want to jump into a big project so I decided to make a few ornaments. The long Santas with the folded over hats were in my UFO pile from 2011. They are paper pieced and I had the front of Santa finished and they just need their backs stitched on. I stopped because I realized that I used scraps for Santa's hats and I did not have enough of the matching fabric to back the ornaments. Since the hats are pulled to the front you can see the back of the ornament and the front of the hat. Seven years ago I wasn't able to get past this problem but now I have no problem with having Santa ornaments with mismatched hats. Nobody is going to realize I didn't follow the pattern exactly.  Apparently after I made my tall Santa ornaments there was a little controversy about copyright and who the design actually belonged to so I can't link to the pattern.  It's paper pieced and shouldn't be too hard to figure out. I make 16 because why make just one?

The triangle Santas are a paid for pattern that you can purchase here.  I don't know why my links are no longer highlighted and I can't find an easy fix but if you click the word "here" it will take you to the pattern.   The triangle Santas were super fun to make so I made 12. I really like that they have some batting in them and are lightly quilted. 

Both sets of ornaments need their hanging ribbons but I need to head to JoAnn's to buy some first. Then I'll be all set for Christmas 2019 lol.

I also spent a little time this morning cutting fabric for some charity quilts that I plan on making next year. I'll be 50 in February 2019 and my goal is to donate 50 items next year. 

Merry Christmas

                                                            MERRY CHRISTMAS!!



I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. If Christmas isn't your thing, I hope you are having a creative day doing the things that make you happy!


I have two little trees in my craft room. The larger tree has some of the handmade ornaments that have been sent to me over the years. I really didn't decorate the little baby tree but it does have the paper garland I made last year.

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I've Finished My Christmas Crafting!! WooHoo!!

 I'm cutting it a bit closer than I like with my handmade Christmas gifts this year but I am finished and the only thing left is to wrap all the gifts. Now there has been many, many years where I've been wrapping gifts past midnight on Christmas Eve. Hopefully not this year but we'll see.

I have finished Robbie's 4th pair of hand knit socks for Christmas 2018. This is the one pair that he has actually seen the yarn for so it was important that I finished these on time. Robbie wears a size 15 shoe so he does have pretty large feet and my hand made sock blocker makes them look even wider lol. I think I will treat myself to a pair of sock blockers in 2019.

My daughter wanted a bed runner so I made her one that matches her new sheets and her old quilt that I made her back in 2009 I believe. She bought a bed in a bag that had blue sheets and a blue ombre comforter. She doesn't use the comforter but instead uses her red and black quilt that she loves. So I thought red, white, and blue would pull everything together. Not that she cares.  I added the white for the background so that the wonky stars would pop.

It's probably hard to tell in this picture but the fabric we chose for the back is icebergs in the ocean. I let her choose from a handful of blue fabrics and I really like the icebergs.

Here is a little closeup of the wonky stars and you can see the blue grunge fabric that I chose for the binding.  This time I used a serpentine stitch to machine stitch the binding to the front. My Juki has a repetitive star design that I was hoping to use on the binding but it just didn't work out.  That's okay, I'll find another project for the stars.

I also made them a set of hanging towels for their kitchen. I made some for my house last year and my daughter requested some for their house. Little did she know that it would take a year for me to finally get around to making them some lol. 

My daughter loves red so I used the some fabric from the hoodie I made her last year.  Since it is Christmas I used some Santa on a tropical vacation. The orange one is for my oldest Justin. Lime green and orange are his favorite colors. The last one is a Zelda fabric for my youngest Robbie. He loves playing all of the Zelda games and this fabric is from his hoodie. Justin's hoodie had Blue's Clues fabric and I just didn't have enough left over from his hoodie to make him a special towel so I just went with his favorite color.

I hope everyone is on track with their handmade Christmas.