Christmas on Earth, Day Two & Three

I have joined in on SewCalGal’s Christmas Quilt Show again as I truly enjoyed last year’s show. Lots of lovely blogs to visit, quilts to see and bloggers to meet; what’s not to love?

I have chosen two of my Christmas on Earth projects for the show. Christmas on Earth is my Christmas class and pattern of the year. I had so much fun making these that I made 7 samples instead of the planned 4. Oh well, I see little globes decorated for Christmas wrapped up in colourful paper under a few Christmas trees come December 24th.

The design is quite simple, but it’s all the little details and embellishments that make them interesting. I love pieces where you have to take a closer look to see the whole picture.

Day Two
This table runner is raw edge appliquéd; machine quilted, embellished by hand and I think I’ll have to keep it for myself as it fits perfectly on my coffee table.

Day Three
This pillow is raw edge appliquéd, machine quilted, embellished by machine and I think I’ll have to keep this one as well as it fits perfectly on my couch.-)
I’ll be celebrating Christmas at home with my family – husband, daughter, grandson (3 ½) and in laws. It should be fun, grandson getting so big and all. He will probably prefer hot dogs to the traditional Christmas dinner with dried and salted ribs of lamb, potatoes and mashed Swedish turnips; and I’ll be happy to cook him some. Everyone should have something they like on Christmas.

You can see more of the Christmas on Earth series here. I’ll be running out of places to put Christmas projects...


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Christmas on Earth Class

I have finally been downloading pictures from last weekend’s class. It was such a great day; lovely students (the ones who made it to the class that is as almost half the class were missing for different reasons) and, all added together, at least one fully equipped sewing room worth of stuff.
The students were very enthusiastic and had lots of ideas about how they would make the projects their own. Definitely my favourite kind of class; thank you ladies for spending such a beautiful fall day with me!
And on the subject of Christmas classes, I just had an idea for another one, oh well, there’s always next year.

Christmas on Earth, Day 2-4

I’ve got a few months or so of hand stitching bindings, but here are 3 of the 7 WIPs named “Christmas on Earth, Day 1-7”:
Day 2 from this post
Day 3
Day 4
The test sample, Day 1, keeps putting up a fight and I’m still figuring out what to do with it. The class is at November 6th so I still have a few weeks to come up with something.

Back to the bindings.

Creating Christmas on Earth

The process of creating my new class samples for the Christmas on Earth class has not been as smooth as I hoped for. My little Rules of Embellishment 1, 2 & 3 are bumps in the roads and mistakes I have made along the way to (what will hopefully be) lovely Christmas projects. A novice at embellishing, I’m still trying out my original ideas to see if they work at all. Not all of them do, you know. The good part of making and documenting these little accidents is that I now can tell my students what not to do. Quite important information I would say.

Anyway, what looks like a star from a distance is actually a lacy globe with trees of which one is decorated for Christmas. It’s more obvious up close, and I like that you have to take a closer look to see the whole picture.