Holidays are pretty much over...

They're over for us since we don't do anything to celebrate the end of the old year and beginning of a new one.  Just getting through Thanksgiving and Christmas - and our wedding anniversary - are enough for this pair of 'old farts'.  All three brought us happiness and a feeling of being blessed.  I'm tickled, too, because there was nothing that had to be returned or regifted - well, except for the gift cards that I sent to the two grandsons in Tx; I bought them cards to use at Speedway for gas, etc.... there are NO Speedways in Tx, although I could have sworn there were.  Daughter is going to mail them back to me and I'll buy other cards ... like Buffalo Wild Wings as replacements.


Even with Christmas, I still continued to do some quilting... well, piecing anyway.  This quilt top is ready to load onto Mo'e.

I found some gingerbread boy prints in my stash that I received from my late cousin, Phyllis and used one print for the borders then took most of what was left of the gingerbread boy prints to make the backing, adding some of the candy cane stripe to even out the pieces.

close up of the bottom... its the directions to make the tree skirt.  

I only found one panel for the Christmas tree skirt and that one panel only makes 1/2 of the skirt... not sure if there's still another panel in the bin or not; I didn't see it if there was.  Just couldn't see going out and buying fabric or using up yardage from my stash to make the backing when I had these pieces that wouldn't get used - made perfect sense to me to use them for the backing.  I told someone in one of the FB groups that I belong to that the back was silly - she thought I was not giving myself the credit I deserved for doing it.  I told her that I wasn't discrediting myself; I was just being honest - I think this backing looks silly and I don't care.

I want to get to work on two or three other projects before I load this quilt onto Mo'e... two are quick projects that won't take long.... Carol's block and then one or two blocks for the library.  The other one will probably not be a quicky... I really need a new 'winter' purse and I've had the fabric and pattern for probably two years - just haven't had the nerve to try it after reading the directions.  Read them again this morning and I'm pretty sure I can do it as long as I just worry about it one step at a time.

Those three projects are my finished by the end of this year goals.  IF I meet these goals, THEN I will reward myself by loading the gingerbread men onto Mo'e.

TTYL