Alphabet placemats

Here is a Christmas gift I made for my BIL's family:

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Potholder and apron

One of the blogs I enjoy is Patchwork Pottery. There are more images in her Flickr account. I particularly liked these potholders. So I made one for my mom for Christmas by making some modifications to the pattern in this book!



Front:



Back:



And for good measure, I made this matching apron from this pattern.



I really like the way it turned out. Though, it apparently needs ironing...

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Doll Clothes

Now that Christmas is over, everyone can see all the things I made!

Here is a set of doll clothes for my DH's niece. It consists of a shirt, skirt, jacket, and hat. You may recognize the hat.


Everything but the skirt is made of scraps! Even the bias tape on the jacket. I think I've been holding on to that piece of bias tape since high school...

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Advent Calendars

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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