Christmas Presents

Hello and Happy Boxing Day as DS said to his Nanny this afternoon. I thought I'd quickly show you a couple of presents I made and also received from my wonderful stitchy/blogger friends Laura and Steph.

I was a very lucky girl to receive this fabulous parcel from Laura. It was filled with lovely Christmas decs and also chocs, stickers and Christmas confetti

I love the little crochetted stocking and the mittens are so sweet with lovely embroidery on them. The cat cushion is simular to one I had from the Christmas Travelling Box so it's nice to have a pair on my tree.

So I sent Laura a parcel too and in it was this lot...

I made Laura and her Hubby mini stockings with their initals on, filled with chocs - after all it is a major food group at Christmas, a Humbug decoration from Kincavel Krosses,  Snowflake feltie, a bag of ribbon, buttons etc, Christmas Socks. A necklace I got from the our local Victorian Fayre and a little glass pig from the Frankfurt Market.

I also made this little beaded candle decoration for Laura's Mum, I copied the design from one my Penpal Sarah-Jane sent me this week. I also made the stitched bird feltie to match the square ones Laura had from the travelling box.

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I also sent Steph a filled stocking too with a bag of bits and bobs and a mini humbug decoration

I got this gorgeous Kokeshi doll from Steph, Isn't she cute! She's crochetted in two of my favourite colours too, with little seed beads in the flowers and in the hair.

I hope you all have had a wonderful Christmas day and are not suffering from the overindulgance of Christmas pud. A quick hello to my new followers too. One more and I have to have a giveaway as My 101/1001 target was 20 new followers and I'm almost there!!!!! If I'm not back before, have a very Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas!

Hi Everyone,

Just a short post to show some of the stockings I made for friends and family this year. I made 14 in total of different sizes - 5 large, 3 medium and 6 small ones. The small and medium ones got filled with sweets but the large ones will hold presents.

These are the ones I made for my two children. They both chose the fabrics from our local fabric shop The Cotton Reel. Fiona the owner designs the patterns too and the die cut the names too for me out of gold fabric so all I had to do was iron them on as they were backed with bondaweb. My two had lovely scripted names, the stockings that were made for my friend were done in capitals and looked fab too, but I forgot to take a photo (D'oh!)

Here are the 3 medium ones I made for my Mum, Hubby and dear friend Sarah.

It's quite hard to tell they are smaller, here is hubby's with Lottie's so you can see the difference. The pattern was reduced by 50% I think, and then the mini one reduced by 50% from that pattern, Alternatively, I've just made all of that up!!!

All that remains is to wish you all blessings for the season. May it be filled with peace, love and joy (and chocolate!)

Stockings and Mushrooms!

Well my week has been filled with making christmas stockings for my friend. I'm doing well with them and I have one left to line and then all they need is the personalisation. That's not too bad as my local sewing shop will cut the letters for you I guess using some sort of die cutting machine and then all you do is iron them on. It works out quite cheaply and saves a considerable amount of time for me too. I paid £13 for 5 names as I figured I may as well order the names for my two too.

As you can see I didn't hide the banding the bobble trim is on rather, I used it to break up the two fabrics a little more. It's been really good to do these as they've improved my machining skills alot.

 

I ordered two hanging mushrooms from Lori, and they've arrived and are fabulous! Here are the fronts of them. I picked out what I wanted on them. It is all the things that remind me of Christmas in our house. The victorian street lamps are because my mum has a little village she puts out each year.

Here are the backs, I didn't realise Lori would embroider the back too so they will look fabulous hanging on the glass of our lounge door. You can find Lori's blog here with links to her Etsy shop etc.

On the 50 Book challenge front, I finished Daphne by M C Beaton and moved on to the next book in the Six Sisters series called Diana the Huntress.

Well thats all for today. I'll be launching my Christmas giveaway tomorrow so check back to see what I'm giving away!

Have a good weekend
Kerry :-)