Christmas 2012 Goodies

It was a long hard year 2012 was.  Most of the year I continually laid up with the knee issues but I'm happy to report that I am FINALLY healed.. well as much as I will be... ages gets ya everytime...

Now is the long hard track to lose all the weight I had lost before this adventure began...

But first.... updating with an album of pictures of all the goodies I received in my many exchanges and swaps.  This is the best way I've found to get the wonderful variety in my stash as there is limited items available locally.  I can only hope that what I send out isn't available where they get sent to so that it increases their stash too.

I thought I was clever and added to my outgoing items as so many did for me last year.. course I have to watch how much due to postage... this year... the ladies have swamped me with goodies and there's just no way I could possibly top it!  I have to first give a HUGE THANK YOU to all who sent to me....  I was having a miserable Christmas but each package helped to brighten things for me and gave me the inspiration and will to dive and get back to my crazy quilting again.

so here goes...

 12 Days of Christmas... 

this all came from Susie.... she spoiled me the most this year!

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

Day 9

Day 10

Day 11

Day 11

Big Surprise!

Next is the Secret Sister Package from Joyce

opened

unopened

goodies inside

Victorian Boot Stockings

from Sarma

from Mary

Ok folks it's late for and and I shouldn't have been sitting at this computer for this length of time... I need my lazyboy!!!

Tomorrow I will post all the pics from the crackers.

More Victorian Boot Stockings

I was able to finish off both of the other Victorian Boot Stockings tonite so had to show them off too :)

First is the second of the stockings for the swap.

This one is one in whites and silver.

This is the one that will be a gift for my sister, shhhh....

The Black velvet used in these two stockings are from leftover fabric that made 

my sister's cape for her recent wedding.  In this stocking

is the blue lining used to line her cape.

After a trip to our local "danger zone" (aka fabric store) the colour schemes 

for the other 2 stocking came out. 

 Mostly due to the buttons :)

1st Victorian Boot Stocking

I have just completed my first Victorian Boot Stocking and I'm so thrilled with it I simply had to share! 

I have two more I just need to put together so I'll be finishing them off next! :)

Christmas Tree Skirt wedges

Wow... it's hard to believe it's been this long since I've posted but it's been a slow hard spring and summer and I'm finally beginning to get back on track again.

After a long haul of dealing with severe knee pain, a surgery and then a longer recovery period then I've ever had before (guess it's true it does take longer after you're 40 :(  ), I'm finally learning to deal with the pain I still have left (severe arthritis) by taking the breaks I need and not doing as much as I used to.  So no long hours sitting at the computer and getting up and moving around frequently during the nites of stitching.

I finally finish up those strips needed for that Teen Crazy Quilt so will have to go digging for the pictures of all the quilts that did get completed, but for now I have pictures of the CQed Tree skirt wedges that are finally ready to be sent back to their owners... I sure hope they'll forgive my tardiness and enjoy the work done on them.. I sure loved getting back into CQing by working on these.

Juli #1

Juli #2

Leslie #1

Leslie #2

On Juli's wedges I started with adding silkies of elves and gave them each a border.  I then added in several seam treatments from stitched to trims and added in some buttons and a brooch along with a few other little things.




On Leslie's I used lots of trims, with lots of golds and added a Santa silkie on one and a gold spider on the other.  I did several stitched seam treatments thou kept them to a simple treatment both to save time and because I kept having the vintage look run thru my head while working on them. There are a few buttons and even a brooch as well.



These will be mailed out tomorrow during my day of errands so I'm off to package them up ready to go.  I hope you ladies like the work I've done on them and again.. I'm soo sorry for the delay in getting these done.

Crazy Patch Quilt Blocks

I have begun to make crazy patch blocks to be made into quilts!  These are the first 5 of 16 blue ones I made... Somehow I forgot to take pics of the rest of them

These plus a scrap pieced long enough for the binding have been taken over by my mother who has the table space to put them all together and pin them for the quilting.

We will be selling these at a couple of local Pow Wow's for really a fraction of  what they are worth but if we can recoup some funds we're happy.

Those that don't sell I will use my original plans of donating them to shelters and for its for the needy at Christmas Time.

These are the 16 blocks I've done up for the next Crazy Patch block quilt.  I will leave it up to my mother as to what blocks goes where, etc. These ones I added a few center patches that have fairies on them as they were already cut from a project I was going to use them on and didn't.

 

 These quilt blocks are all being made out of the drawers for scrap pieces of fabric that I have sorted into colours.  The next one will be in pinks!

CQing Christmas packages/crackers

I had such a wonderful time opening all my CQing packages on Christmas Eve.

Pictures truly on worth a thousand words... so here's a FEWpics :O)

SS PACKAGE

My SS packages came all the way from Portugal!

All this came in those packages.

I really love the varigated Christmas thread. and the strawberry that hides a shopping bag.

Thank you Maria!

 CRACKER #1

This cracker is from Meg

this is the block that wrapped the cracker

here's what was inside :O)

better pic of the motif

Thank you Meg!

CRACKER #2

This cracker came from Kerry

Such wonderful rich looking fabrics and embellishments!

close up of the beads and buttons

A beaded butterfly motif!!! WOW

Thank you Kerry!

CRACKER #3

This cracker came from Ingrid.
The one that came with the extra large baggie of goodies to that wouldn't fit in the cracker and no wonder!

these were on the ends of the cracker and I plan to reuse them on  a cracker I make for next year.

The pins in the pincushion came in this cracker and they went immediately to my new pincushion.

Several gorgeous christmas print fabrics

Aren't these just the cutest!

This was made especially for me... I love it!

There was just soo much in the cracker!

 And can you believe with all this that Ingrid actually apologized for not making a CQed block for the outside of the cracker!

Ingrid I love it all and you've spoiled me absolutely rotten how could anyone be sorry there wasn't a CQed block covering all these goodies!

THANK YOU INGRID!