I am free to show all these projects because they are safely in the hands of their new owners!
One of the shops I got some fabrics from has an absolutely astounding blog. It's full of contests, tutorials, and ideas. That would be Sew, Mama, Sew. Every craft store tries to get us started on Christmas projects in July, so we don't have that December insanity. Sew, Mama, Sew's blog did too! Among the Christmas project tutorials was this gem. Though I do like that Robert Kaufman fabric used in the tutorial, I didn't fancy buying more of it than I needed. So I took a look at the measurements, and I took a look at a Christmas "layer cake" I bought the previous November. (A "layer cake" is a Moda product containing 40 precut 10 inch squares all from the same line.) With some changes to the cutting, I could make TWO advent calendars from just one layer cake! And have barely anything leftover! YES! So that is what I did.
One for my sister and her kid:
One for DH's brother, his wife, and their kid:
Impulse buy makes good!
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