Another jigsaw

Christmas jigsaws obviously run in the family, completed by Jack and Lesley on Christmas eve.

Mola style box

At last ! I've got my Mola style box on to the blog, I played safe and kept it extremely simple,especially compared to the gorgeous one that you sent me Kathy.

Annual Christmas Puzzle

We finished the puzzle! Grandad and Luke did most of the work with the rest of the family supervising.

Christmas Visitors

I went out to brush away the skim of snow this morning and found we'd had visitors in the night.  These tracks are from Missy, the cat across the road.

 

No, this isn’t the cat leaving tracks.  This is Shadow, the Christmas kitty, waiting for his boys to come home.  (Delays – I guess they have more interesting places to be.  We should have some arrivals tomorrow.)

 

 

 

 

More tracks.  Looks like one of Santa's reindeer took a detour into our yard. 

Quilt, Dress, Cast

Here is Anna's new quilt in her loft room

Here is Miriam dressed up for a
formal dinner with the youth group

Ruth with her classy new purple cast
doing large-scale cross stitch with one hand.

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Recent Projects

When there are lots of preparations to be made for 

Christmas I can always be talked into starting a new project instead!

The tree skirt was made for the public library. A week ago the staff were trying to decide how to use funds that had been donated in memory of a patron who had passed away. The asked for a tree skirt for the library Christmas tree. My friend Donna and I shopped for fabric last Saturday, worked on it through the week, and delivered it to the library today!  The pattern is from the book French Braid Obsession by Jane Hardy Miller. (We like our colours much better than the ones in the book!)

Directions for the walll-hanging were in Happy Villages by Karen Eckmeier. I couldn't find the book in Canada so ordered a copy on ebay. I invited a couple of friends over one morning to try this out. The collaging of the shapes was fun -- a person could go on adding details for ever! Once the bits were all in place, and tacked down with spots of glue, they were covered up with a layer of tulle and free-motion machine stitching around all the pieces holds everything in place. My good machine was being repaired so I did this stitching on my older one. I've left the mistakes (tension problems, etc.) all in place and I didn't cover up the stitching on the back as this will be useful as a teaching sample.

I'm trying to decide if I should run a line of that beautiful spun sari silk around it just inside the binding -- the colours are exactly right, but I don't know if I want to "waste" the silk.

Weft Studio Christmas competition results

My box came in third!  Here is the link:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=303935&id=272974776728

Anna, Mary and Miriam in Calgary

The three-way swop