Sending Christmas wishes

Merry Christmas to all my friends and family out in sewing/blogging land.  I wish you all a very merry christmas or whichever holiday you may celebrate.

Thank-you so much for reading this blog and supporting my sewing passion.  Without you guys this blog would just be a bunch of pictures.  So thank-you!!!

Here's to another great year of fabric-y goodness!!

Cheers
XOXO
Caroline

For the Children of Newtown

The Quilters Corner in New Milford CT has started a pillow case drive for the children of Sandy Hook elementary school. A great many bloggers and online sewing enthusiasts have joined together via Flickr and other online venues to help out. If you're interested in more info please visit the Sandy Hook Elementary Pillow case drive Flickr site.   There are links to pillowcase tutorials on the Flickr site as well.

They will need approx. 600 pillow cases. Word is they would like to get them to the Children after Christmas break.
 
 Tonight I've made up 7 pillowcases that I'll post off tomorrow.
 
 My fabric is a little skewed towards the girly, so i have more girl cases than boy ones. I might just pop by my local fabric store make a few more tomorrow to even that out.   Might as well fill up the flat rate box.

If you're interested in helping out you can mail your pillowcases to Quilter's Corner: 312 Danbury Rd. ( Rt. 7), New Milford, CT 06776 Please pass this info on to anyone you know who would be willing to contribute. It is a small thing to do.

Christmas cheer

Does everyone sew like a mad-woman at the holidays? I tell you, my machine should be smokin' from the amount of use it's been getting lately.

Here is the last of my holiday sewing - I decided we needed some Cheery Festive Napkins.  I started the first set back in August - you know - back when I thought that would be plenty of time to get them all done! ha ha ha Not!

Here we are a week before xmas and I'm madly sewing them together.

Well, all's well that ends well as they say.


They are done and in plenty of time for the Christmas feast.

And assortment of my favorite Christmas fabrics.

A little Brrr!

A little Winterkist.

And along with that a spiffy new tablecloth.


In case you're wondering how I made these, you can follow my tute for Kitchen towels on the side bar but cut them at 15" square instead - or whatever size you want them to be.  (Put an 'X' of stitching from corner to corner to secure them before you sew on the binding).

Now that's more festive! Maybe I can convince my daughter to add in something shiny and sparkly as a centerpiece.

Happy Sewing and Happy Holidays! May they be merry and bright