Revealed at Last

At last I can show you what I was so busy doing before Christmas. These are "Pillow Quilts" also known as "Quilows" I'm told. I made 13 of these for Christmas presents this year. These are just some of the pictures I was able to find. As I've said in my last post, I am in the process of trying to get all of my "stuff" off my husband's computer onto my own. I've lost a few pictures, found a few I thought I'd lost and have become totally confused and frustrated in the process.

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I am happy to announce that my family were all thrilled with their Christmas gifts. I can even go so far as to say that the grandaughter's were "over the moon". Although I do admit to fussing a bit over those, adding beads, sequins, and appliques, the grandson's were much simpler in that they got none of that 'fancy' stuff...*lol* But man-0-man was that a tough one for me to get done on time. As it was I ended giving up trying to make some for the whole family and my sons and one son-in law ended getting store bought gifts this year. Their turn next year....BUT....I'm going to start those babies in June!

I will continue to post pictures as I find them. My other son-in-law received a Christmas chef's apron and hat, (he loves cooking) . I made a Christmas set of oven mitts, pot holders and apron for one of my daughter-in-laws, and a set of pot holders, oven mitts, and 6 linen tea towels for my other daughter in law.

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I have started a new project and I'm taking this one nice and easy. It's called "Virginia Bound" and can be found in Bonnie Hunters new book, 'Scraps and Shirttails. It's the first one in the book and although she makes it look so easy, I think I am mentally challenged when it comes to making these bits and pieces look as nice as hers do. Well time will tell, and believe me time it will take. I'm giving myself a good 2 months for this one project. As I figure it will take me that long.

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Now if my "N.Y. resolution" holds up, once this quilt is finished my goal will be to finish at least one UFO from last year before starting another quilt. Sounds reasonable and do-able doesn't it?

As I said time will tell.

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Till next time...

~~Fran...:c)