Christmas Through the Year - February

I like working in multiples.  Especially if I'm making the same thing over and over.  I decided to make these 2 handed pot-holders.  Super quick!  I made 5 so far.  I actually have some of that yellow chicken fabric in my stash so I made one out of that.  My thought is to make coordinating aprons for the pot-holders and give them out to my aunts and a few others in my family (my Mom, my Babci...).  I think that will make for very nice Christmas gifts.

But I will confess.  They aren't 100% done. I have to close the turning holes but I just haven't had the time.  But I am calling these done for now.  :)

March I am taking a pass on the Christmas gifts.  I've decided to make Easter "baskets" for the little girls in my family and I need to get those done.  My time in March is limited.  My weekends are booked.  EVERY weekend and the last week in March, I need to travel to San Fran again for work.  However, I have started my March gifts but I was waiting for zippers.  Now that they have shown up, I'm ahead of the game for April sewing.  Swoon too has been ignored.  Sigh.  Not enough time!

Enjoy your day!
Jen :)

I'm going to have to start collecting towels

Stacy and I are doing our own mini-swap; one of her knitted scarfs for a couple of my potholders.  THIS is my gorgeous scarf that Stacy said she was all done with and I've been a slacker in the sewing department but I got my end of our swap done.  So Stacy, if you are reading this, I need your mailing address!

Stacy told me to do whatever I liked for her potholders.  She didn't mind color or anything.  And she likes owls (she better!  I hope I didn't get my blogs mixed up!).  I had a cute charm pack that I ordered from Quilt Taffy and the potholders were created.

I totally need to work on lining things up right.  But I digress... I like the potholders and I hope Stacy does too.  But what I REALLY like is the little extra I'm including.  I LOVE it.  It is soooo stinkin' cute!  And I hope Stacy loves it too.

First, the potholder fronts -

The potholder backs -

turn your heads to the left...  :)

And now the little extra I'm adding...

EEKKKKK!  CUTE!!!!

I won a Facebook giveaway from Sharon and my prize was a very cute zippered pouch, CUTE little stork scissors and some jumbo ric-rac.  I thought the pink ric-rac just made the owl towel extra cute.

And here they are all together -

Hence my post title.  I need to start collecting more towels to make for gifts and for myself.  I'm lovin' that owl.  I think I need one for myself.

I'm also thinking that a cute towel and some hand soap would make cute gifts for teachers and others.  And thinking like that... my very good friend from HS birthday is in a couple of weeks.  Plus her mom... maybe they need a couple of towels too.

Stacy - I hope you like them!!

Enjoy your day!
Jen

Potholder Pass 2

The first potholder exchange was such a hit, a second one is starting up!  Sign ups are happening right now until the end of February.

I signed up for a second time.  The potholders were very quick to put together and you have a month to get them done. 

So if you're interested, click on the link or the potholder signup button on my sidebar and sign on up!

Enjoy your day!
Jen :)