Starting Early Christmas Gifts
#31
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Thanks for this thread! I usually wait til July to work on Christmas projects but this year I decided I'd do them all year long since I have so many projects that don't get finished in time. I'll watch this thread for ideas and inspiration. Every year I make a quilty ornament for my granddaughters although this past year I made the paint brush santas that were all over the net! I'll learn how to post pictures and share past ornies soon.
#32
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making my to do list this week and then finishing the 2 quilts that were supposed to go out for the holidays. I hope I still have internet next month to check this thread for everyone's ideas and progress. If you don't hear from me Lynnie . . . I'll be back eventually.
#33
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For this past Christmas I FINALLY made quilted gifts for most of my daughter, my nieces and my sisters and sister-in laws. I made them all Christmas themed, paper-pieced potholders (made 48 of them all together) and a quilted table runner. Each of the table runners were from the MSQ shop 10" half hexi table runner pattern (9 of them), but I dressed them all up a bit with a lot of metallic fabric, flanges and glittery ric rack. That pattern is SO easy, takes only a little over an hour to complete the entire top, and can very easily be made a little more formal if one likes. I thought that I would be sick of Christmas sewing/quilting after that, but last week I made an Eleanor Burns, Quilt in A Day, Log Cabin Wreath wallhanging, and when I get home from traveling plan to make a few more of those. More than anything I am intent on using up a whole bunch of my Christmas fabrics, because I have SO much of it, and have promised I won't buy ANY MORE until almost all of what I have now is gone. I have plans also to make the daughter, nieces and sisters Christmas purses for next Christmas, and to start making something (most likely lap quilts) for my brothers, brothers in-law, son and nephews. I have decided that before I die EVERYONE I love gets something made/quilted especially for them from me. And I LOVE Christmas, so Christmas sewing just might be my go to thing all year.
#34
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Well, there is that point!!! I think I will get a big plastic tote to hold finished items as I go along and pin a note to each one so I don't forget. One of my goals is to make some felt and fabric gift bags, too so maybe I'll even get them wrapped as I go along! (here's hoping I don't crash and burn!!!). Lol.
#35
I am trying to get 2 new baby quilts done - and a UFO from last year....but i have been making lists in my notebook of wanna do's........ And for Lynnie...... around here it's always been..."never put off til tomorrow what you can get out of all together"
#36
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I love the thought but in theory what i make now probably wont be what ill want to give them then.... Let alone find where i stashed the darn thing !!!
Every summer i find boxes and bags that were suppose to be stocking stuffers or santa gifts that i well, either forgot all about, or just couldn't plain remember where they were. lol..
BUT ill always keep making scrappies with no one in mind..
Every summer i find boxes and bags that were suppose to be stocking stuffers or santa gifts that i well, either forgot all about, or just couldn't plain remember where they were. lol..
BUT ill always keep making scrappies with no one in mind..
#37
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I am finishing up some UFO's that were intended for Christmas, so when those are finished I will have a head start on Christmas. After having shoulder surgery last May, I want to start projects so I'm not in a panic mode to finish by Christmas. Our DGD did get her "big girl" quilt for Christmas, but I was sewing the binding one hour before we had to leave. Not doing that again. (I hope!!!)
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Thanks again!
#39
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So I don't forget where I put things..... small stuff, like jewelry, notpads, stocking stuffers, I put in a kitchen drawer. I know it's crazy there, but when I come in the house, I go to the kitchen first. so I cleared a small drawer and stuff goes there. If I see something in a store I think some people will like, I put it there too.
as far as what I make. I live in a condo and have 2 hugh hall closets, about 6-7 feet long. when I finish a quilt, throw, stocking, I put it on a hanger in that closet. this way, I know where my stuff is. I AM NOT ORGANIZED.NOT EVEN CLOSE TO IT. i' adhd so i'm the farthest thing from organized. but that's where I put my stuff. my projects i'm working on are all over the house where I left it last.
maybe thru this thread, I prompted some people to get a head start on the inevitable
happy quilting all. and show some pics.
as far as what I make. I live in a condo and have 2 hugh hall closets, about 6-7 feet long. when I finish a quilt, throw, stocking, I put it on a hanger in that closet. this way, I know where my stuff is. I AM NOT ORGANIZED.NOT EVEN CLOSE TO IT. i' adhd so i'm the farthest thing from organized. but that's where I put my stuff. my projects i'm working on are all over the house where I left it last.
maybe thru this thread, I prompted some people to get a head start on the inevitable
happy quilting all. and show some pics.
#40
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: The other Milwaukie, Oregon
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I made a promise to myself that I would finish at least one Christmas gift a month in 2014. This past Christmas I was so overwhelmed I've still not recovered. There is someone who does a blog- - can't remember who but she writes about one project a month for Christmas. When I read her entry I promised myself I would follow her plan.
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