Children Christmas cards

Finally finished the children Christmas cards that I actually started last January. Plans were to work on them during Rudy days but something always came up and there they sat till today. I needed 10 but cut out 11 just in case and sure enough I made a nice little error on one.

 So I made a little note on the inside about year it was made and will put it in the envelope with example of  the Christmas cards I have made over the year. 4 of these cards will go to my grandchildren and the other six are for the HCC gang.

Stamp used is called Spindly birds W172 by stampendous. Picked it up at Hobby Lobby while we were in the states last year. The birds were stamped onto water colour paper and coloured in with water colour pencils. I added little dots made around the outer edge of the white paper and around the outside edge of the red cardstock was made using a gold colour gel pen. They are kind of hard to see but shine when put light.
Now I need to get busy with the adult cards

couple Christmas presents

Saw some fabric that I knew oldest dear son would love so I turn it into a pillowcase for him.  The one fabric is of some BMW cars/vans and the other bike cycles with baskets. Along with the pillowcase I made him some dishcloths. Having these finished takes a couple items off my Christmas list.

Hailey winter gear

I purchase a Caron cake roll a couple months ago when Michaels had them on sale. Wasn't sure what I was going to make with it but than got thinking DGD is starting JK this year and like most children that start school for the first time they are always misplacing their hats, mitts etc (I always have to carry on me some mitts when out and about with the HCC gang as they are always losing one or both etc) that making her a couple hats and a scarf to have as backup would be a good idea. So I did using the funfetti confetti shade. Folded the scarf so all the colours in this yarn cake can be seen except for the one shade of purple which can be seen in both hats.

Dress and wrist warmers

Decided this week to clean out my knitting bags. Yes bags as I have a large one, med one and a couple small ones for different size projects. In one of the bags housing some dishcloths that needed the ends tucked in along with yarn for more dishcloths. Laying at the bottom was a pair of wrist warmers. I have finished them up so they are ready to go when in turns cold in a couple months.

Finally got around to making my DGD doll a dress with the left over fabric from her Easter dress.

More hats

These hats will find their new home on the Mitten tree come fall. These hats were made with the left over yarn from the workman socks I made for myself. Those balls of yarn were big. Being that only about 4 rows of red where used in each sock I was able to get three red, than two cream, a grey one and that a stripe hat with the grey and cream-its the one without the pom-pom and I like the way the colour combo works.

Rest of baby gift

With the remaining charm squares from the baby quilt I made a little pillowcase for the baby quilt. I simply made a square case with the patchwork on one side and plain ivory on the other side and did a binding around the open side. It's a little bigger than the quilt when folded so the one side can be folded under. It might also get used as the wrapping for the gift.

With the left over fabric from the quilt border and backing I made a lacey bag. The border fabric was used for the outside of the bag and the backing fabric as the lining.

The card front also has one of the charm squares sewn onto it with some lace. Figure I should try and use up all the charms instead of them just laying around and I don't think they would make it into another quilt.