The is the Nativity Table Runner from Designs by Juju. The original was really a table runner and I wanted to make a version that would look nice hung on a wall.  Juju designs are always beautiful and wonderfully digitized.

Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes

 Monday was the first big step in the transportation of this year's shoeboxes to their final destination.  My church and my sewing group worked to provide 260 shoeboxes this year.  The boxes are heading to Denver to a Samaritan's Purse processing center and then they will head to children across the world.  The boxes are the first step in learning that Jesus loves each and everyone of us.  The child also has the opportunity to know Jesus as their savior.  God's blessing on each and every box.

Peach Sunrise

 Peach Sunrise is my latest quilt.  I saw the grouping of fat quarters at Cotton Pickins Shop in Washington. I had previously made a quilt with their Seaside Serenity Kit and thought the Peaches and Blush fat quarter group would make a great quilt.  I used a rail fence pattern for the quilt.  In the meantime I had purchased a new magnetic hoop to use with my 10 needle embroidery machine.  So the top is quilted with Feathers 2 end-to-end embroidery pattern from Designs by Juju. I like this quilt and enjoyed the entire process of making it.

 A quilt with a story! I sometimes do work for others and had just completed a pillow for a client.  She brought her dil with her when she picked up the pillow.  Her dil said that she had blocks from a old trunk of her granny.  I told her, "You can make a quilt from the blocks."  She did not hear the pronoun and brought the blocks and finishing fabrics to me a couple of weeks later.  I gave her with I thought to be an excessive price to make two quilts.  "Okay," she said.  I have to say that the blocks were ugly and many sizes.  Some of the fabric was extremely fragile.  But look what happens!  The quilt turned out to be beautiful!  I will tell you what she says when she picks up the quilts.

Seaside Serenity

This is Seaside Serenity.  It is a quilt kit that I immediately fell in love with the colors when I saw it at Cotton Pickin's Quilt shop in Washington State.  I don't usually purchase kits but this one shouted at me.  I knew that I was going to try end-to-end embroidery design from JuJu.  This is the  Swirls 1 design. I basted the top, batting, and backing together with 505 spray (lightly sprayed). I recently purchased a magnetic hoop from Mighty Hoops to make the hooping quicker. I started in the middle of the quilt on one side and continued across to the other edge.  The last hooping on the edge was about five inches so when the design went off the edge I would stop the design and forward to another section that stitched on the quilt.  This quilt took some time and patience as there is probably 60 hoopings.  I just wanted to prove to myself that I could really quilt my own quilts. Someone is going to receive a nice Christmas present!
 

Two Years of Work

 This is two years of thread ends that were saved in a quart mason jar as I changed colors on my Babylock 10 needle embroidery machine.  The new thread is tied to the old thread and pulled through before threading the needle. I have no special end result for this thread, I just was tired of finding it on my sewing room floor.  But it is a pretty reminder of the work that the machine has completed.