X-mas ?

So it appears to be approaching the holiday season again already. I've been thinking about gifts and what I will give and make people this year. So far I have made three things to distribute as gifts and have two more halfway done.

Spoiler alert for Ali. Do not read this or look at the following picture or your present is ruined....I'll put it at the bottom just in case. So first I'll show a picture of the gift I made for Andy's mom. I saw a lady at quilt club working on this and asked if I could have the pattern. She brought it too me at the next meeting. I'm not thrilled with the colors. The lighter orange reminds me of mac and cheese. I think it ruins the scarf, but Andy's mom likes the burnt orange color and this yarn was the best I could do.

I think the scarf is neat, but it's more of a spring or fall scarf. The yarn is light and thin, so it won't really offer a whole lot of warmth when it is 10 degrees outside.

I made another gift for my friend Erin, but I don't trust her self-control so I'm not going to post any pictures of it on here until after I give it to her.


So for Ali, I made this pillow case. I got the pattern for free at Joann Fabric. I thought it would be pretty easy. The pattern was really small and had instructions to increase it to 12". But you needed two patterns across and two down. Having not used this type of pattern before I thought I was going to end up with a giant pillow, so instead of following directions, I made it 8 inches. When all was said and done, each block was only four inches, so I had to add some sashing. After finishing everything the whole pillow was only 14 inches. I'm not thrilled with my sewing job. The seams are terrible, but I added yo-yos to hide the seems. I'd never made yo-yos before, but people always ask me if that is what I'm working on when I do this paper piecing project I do, so I thought maybe I'd try it so I knew what they were talking about.

I'll post picture of the other things I'm working on once they are complete.