Wishing you all a blessed Christmas!
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| Alisa and family |
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| Suzanne and family |
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope."
Romans 15:13
23.12.13
5.12.13
Book Character Day
I finally uploaded my pictures from the past month onto the computer and realized I didn't show you our costumes from Book Character Day. (Now hopefully my computer doesn't crash as it's been acting up lately!)
Here we have....Gandalf, Blabbermouth, and Princess Rachel !
I spent the most time on the Gandalf costume. The only thing I bought was a brown curtain for the cape! I just cut it to the right length and put a tie through the casing at the top. For the robe I used a fabric I had in my stash that's pretty heavy and doesn't really fray. Lukas made the beard using this tutorial. The hat is based on this tutorial except I used the plastic from a crazy carpet sled for the brim :)
Close up of the hat. Definitely the hardest part but I'm happy with the result and Lukas was very, very pleased!
Here we have....Gandalf, Blabbermouth, and Princess Rachel !
I spent the most time on the Gandalf costume. The only thing I bought was a brown curtain for the cape! I just cut it to the right length and put a tie through the casing at the top. For the robe I used a fabric I had in my stash that's pretty heavy and doesn't really fray. Lukas made the beard using this tutorial. The hat is based on this tutorial except I used the plastic from a crazy carpet sled for the brim :)
4.12.13
Quilts for Charity
Last February when we had our quilt retreat we asked everyone to bring a blue/white and green/white 9 patch so we could make a quilt for the Pregnancy Care Center.
They sat in my sewing room until May when Fenna from FABulous Home Sewn spear headed a sew-a-long for Pregnancy Care Centres. It was a good push to get it done! Laura, from Crafty Hour, and I worked on it together, making it a disappearing 9-patch quilt.
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| The 9 patch blocks we started with... |
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| front |
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| back |
Over the next couple of months Laura made a few more quilts with fabric from Fat Quarter Shop that they generously donated. Laura pieced and I quilted this cute Dr. Seuss one.
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Check out the flickr pool and see the other sewing and quilts they made. Still a few more to be made from all the fabric that was donated. Hopefully we can do that this winter sometime.
