Determination Pays Off

Morning Friends!  Are we all still in a turkey coma or did you head out early and hit the Black Friday sales?  LOL!  We had a lovely Thanksgiving.  This year, the dinner was hosted at our house and I was in charge of the turkey.  This was only my 2nd time hosting Thanksgiving and the first time I made homemade stuffing.  Everything was delicious!  And my stuffing ROCKED!

After Amelia went to bed, I wasn't ready to sleep myself even though I was exhausted so I made good use of my free time.

Country Snowfriends

So?  What do you think?  I LOVE IT!  I worked on it Wednesday afternoon and got as far as machining on the binding.  Wednesday night, I started hand-sewing the binding on the back and finished it last night along with burying my threads.

My quilting is minimal because I just wanted to get it done.  The backing is just like the border.  I love that fabric.  The border and maroon star fabric is a Red Rooster Fabrics collection called Winterberry Lane.  The binding is from Basic Grey.  I believe it was their last year's Christmas collection called Fruitcake?  That Winterberry Lane... I wish my fabric store had the whole collection.  Like I said, it's not truly my style but it speaks to me.  It has to be this guy:

close up of my minimal quilting

It's finished and it's on my wall and I'm happy.  I have prepped 5 coupon clutches so far.  My Santa Sack Swap items are all done.  I just need to wrap and put in the mail.  Be on the look out, Melissa!  They will be put in the mail on Tuesday.

Today Punkie and I are going visiting.  We're going to head out and see my friends who just had a baby girl.  I can't wait to see them!  It's been a year or so since we've last seen each other.

If you have today off, hope you have a creative one!
Enjoy your day!
Jen :)

Snowball Snowmen

See.  Told you I would be back.  LOL! 

Did you see Rachel's super cute and fast tutorial on her Snowman mug rug?  If you didn't, you must go check it out.  Now.  Go ahead.  I'll wait....

Did you pop over and see it?  Cute, eh? -> put a little Canadian accent in there too for effect.  I love it.  I saw the tutorial this morning and could not get it out of my head.  When shopping for fabric for the coupon clutches, I picked up a little extra.  I had intended to make this as a gift but then stopped myself.  I said "self.  You NEVER make anything for yourself or the house.  Only for someone else.  You always tell yourself that you will make another one but that never happens."

You know what?  This is for ME.  I will make another as a gift because it will be well received but this one.  It's mine dude.  All mine.  Okay, it's for the house.

Here's what I have so far.  This only took me a little over an hour to cut and piece.

Now the colors that I picked really aren't "me".  Remember, this started out as a gift which the fabrics are perfect for.  But I don't care.  A little country colors isn't going to kill me. 

I intend to finish this soon. 

Enjoy your day!
Jen