I can finally share...

My #3 from my FAL Q4 list.

A panel quilt for my husband for Christmas.

My husband was so surprised, he never suspected a thing!

Christmas Tree skirt

I've been wanting to make a tree skirt for a while and I finally made one.

Family Tree

Today I'm sharing something special that I made my parents for Christmas.

At the base of the tree I hand embroidered my grandparents names, on the trunk I embroidered my parents names and each of the branches represents the kids and grandkids to my parents. I used my embroidery machine to embroider all the names on the leaves and the whole thing is appliqued to the background and I free motion quilted around the tree.

My mom cried when she opened it, and made my dad hang it on the wall right away!

I'm linking up to Sarah and Amanda.

Here's a link back to my list. This is part of #11 from my list!

Color Book

Today I am sharing the color book I made for my nephew Eli.

The pattern can be found here.

It's very similar to the one I made my son, which you can see here.

I would love to make my son an ABC book with novelty fabric as the letters and each fabric have something that represents that letter, like A has apple fabric, B has bears.. but I don't enough fabric to do this yet. I'm going to have to sort through what I have and see...

Bags, bags and more bags

Here is the first of a few Christmas gift posts.

Today I'm sharing the bags I made for my nieces.

This is for the one that loves purple.

The niece that this one went to changes her mind about colors all the time.

This one's favorite color is black. So I added red and played with a disappearing 9 patch. It's a little smaller than the rest, but she loves it.

This is for my niece that likes teal. One of my daughters really loved this bag, but she has one I made her already!

Here's the pattern .

Christmas Paper Challenge

In one of my Facebook Groups, they are having a challenge to create a Christmas kit with 100 papers/embellishments. When I first started pulling from my stash I didn't think I would get anywhere near 100 items.

But before I knew it I had this

, this

this,

and this.

I have: 3- 12"x 12" papers, 5- 8.5"x11" papers, 7-8"x8" papers, 59-6"x6" papers, 2-4"x6" papers, 44-4"x6" PL cards, 62-3"x4" PL cards, 14-3"x4" papers, plus a bunch of embellishments. Total 196 papers plus a bunch of embellishments!!!!

Since my 15 year old decided he is going to make homemade apple pies for both Grandparents house for Thanksgiving, I put my machine away this morning and made this page with this Christmas stash.

Still along way to go to get through my Christmas stash, but it's a start.

Christmas tree

I've seen all over pinterest and Facebook felt christmas trees. So I made one for over at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

I have plans to make a few more ornaments for it.

Pinterest project #39.