Works in Progress

I decided that I need to clear up my sewing room in prelude to Thanksgiving and Christmas, so I decided I need to make a short list of what I need to get done before the beginning of December. I sew in my living room. When you walk into my house you walk into my sewing mess room. Therefore, it all needs to be put away for the holidays. I have a difficult time doing this though, especially when I need to complete Christmas presents. It will be interesting to see how the layer cake QAL goes without a space to sew! I guess I will have to do it only on Wednesday nights, UGH! Anyway, I needed to make a small something for a gift exchange for the Plymouth Piecemakers group I am a part of. The gift had to be a ten dollar value. How difficult is that? I had this neat pattern and a charm pack laying around so I decided to make this:

Interestingly enough my DH wanted to keep this! I have a second charm pack so I will make another one, it is not too difficult to do. What do you think of it? It still needs to be quilted and bound and an eye put on the Cardinal but I like it.

Next up is the Charming Secret Santa Christmas Swap gift. I worked on this last week. In fact this is what I bought the reindeer fabric for. I decided to use a layer cake of Merry and Bright to make it with since I had it in the house. The background for the reindeer was bigger than the layer cake squares so I pieced it together as I also did for the borders. I just need to finish stitching around the applique (fusible) and then off to LTW for quilting. This will be my gift to my swap partner. Don't tell though because it's a secret!

I wish you could see the fabric I used in the reindeer better. I will have to take a close up later once it is all quilted up.

I really need to finish the baby plus quilt and have decided to make an elephant applique quilt for another baby. I also would love to know the gender of those 2 babies so I could better choose the fabric. The third baby quilt will be one I am dying to make but probably won't begin until after the holidays (realistically). I could just go on and on but you would be bored so I'm going to stop right here. I think I need to put this list on paper!

XOP