Happy New Year!!

I nearly forgot about New Years! Ive been buried under huge amounts of boxes and cleaning. Blah!! Hopefully once we roll into Rapid City and find a place to live and all that I will be able to get my 2011 sewing started! Last year I had such a hard time getting going. I hope a new sewing room will get my quilting mojo flowing! PLUS ORBC ROUND 9 STARTS 1/1/11! Eeek

But until we figure out where we are and what the heck we are doing my quilt blog will remain pretty quiet.

Must be fate

Our house is looking pretty rough. Actually some rooms are bare and others are a disaster. Most anything that makes the house look homey has been packed. But I did keep out a couple of votive holders for the kitchen table. And lo and behold a Christmas gift arrived today and it wasn't wrapped and it matches my votive holders perfectly! My mother in law has taken up quilting quite recently and she made this beautiful table topper for 'us' this year!

Lucky me!

2010 Quilts

Jayden's Quilt

Finished!

Christmas Commissions

Finally I finished up the Christmas gifts my mom asked me to make. Whew. I have been battling a severe care of procrastination, but I don't think December 5th is too late. She will still have plenty of time to wrap them and gift them.

I spent all day yesterday making a massive amount of Christmas cookies. It was fun. And they are yummy.

On a personal note, my brother's wife gave birth to his first baby tonight. A little girl. This is the first blood related niece/nephew for me! I'm finally a real Auntie!!

The year of the placemat

That is how this Christmas will be remembered. Seems alot of placemats will be gifted on my side of the family this year. I made 2 sets as gifts, and my mom asked me to make 3 sets for her to gift. (plus I made one other set of 4 in October, which brings my placemat total to 26 placemats! I still need to make one naughty men apron for my mom to gift, hopefully I will bang that out during naptime. ( or I might sit on my butt and do nothing)

This is one of the sets for my mom to gift

this is another

and this is the last set, its a set of six by the way.

And here is one of my CSP with some actual progress going on! I only have this and 1 other left. Not too bad eh?