Shopping is done, gifts are made/purchased, shipped and received. I'm not cooking this year - other than Christmas morning breakfast for hubby and myself.
Yesterday I spent most of the day finishing up the appliqueing of the 2015 Gingerbread Men BOM from Cindy Rodenmeyer (fatcatpatterns.com)
these two still had phone book pages on the backs that still needed removing. I've taken the papers off since the pic was taken.
The bottom two rows now have sashing between the blocks. - My 'design wall' isn't big enough to hold all of them so the bottom row is laying over to the side. - I'm still trying to figure out the best way to cut the strips for the sashing between the borders... I have three yards of fabric, so I can cut length wise to get the stripes to match the other sashing, which is what I want - I just don't want to waste fabric so am trying to figure out if there's another way to do it. Probably not.
sashing fabric
While at Walmart this morning, I happened upon some precuts packages of fabric... 2 yards for less than $7. and it's not flimsy stuff. Pretty green that will go with the green in the striped sashing. I bought two which should be more than enough for borders. I know what people say about Walmart and JoAnn's fabrics - but this is not an heirloom quilt... the gingerbread men and their clothes were all made from 'scraps' and the background was from yardage leftover from another project. It doesn't require investing Mega Dollars into it when I don't even know what I'll do with it once it's done. It probably won't go to charity since I did pay quite a bit for the sashing fabric ( something like $10 a yard); one of my kids or gkids will probably end up with it.
I also finished quilting the Super Quilter wall hanging day before yesterday - just haven't taken a pic of it yet. I ended up loading it onto Mo'e since my domestic machines are not working up to my standards for free motion right now.
Since I didn't want to lose the Super Quilter pin, I left it on the quilt during the quilting process and also while I was adding the binding. BUT when I finished, I noticed it was GONE!!... Searched all over the house for it, checked to see if Buddy found it ( innocent for once lol), still couldn't find it. Finally, the next morning, after checking all over again, I said a couple of prayers and started working on the Gingerbread applique... when - guess what - there was the pin wedged in between the two tables in my sewing room!! HOORAY!!. Now, it's complete except for the signature of the woman who made the top for me - she's in Florida for the winter so next Spring, I'll take it to one of our meetings so that she can sign it for me.
Close to dinnertime....
TTYL
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