Christmas Gifts

I was very happy that my mom really loved the quilt that I made her for Christmas. She loved it so much that she cried when she opened it, and of course that made me cry too. My Aunt also loved her pillow :)

Last Minute Christmas Gift

I could not think of what to get my aunt for Christmas but I finally had an idea to make her a quilted pillow on Sunday evening. I have wanted to so something based on the four seasons for a while. That theme worked well for this pillow based on a double four patch square.

Here is the basted "quilt sandwich" prior to quilting

Here is the pillow top quilted with the basting stitches removed

Here is the winter square with a snowflake quilted on a blue field

Here is the spring square with quilting around the birds

This is the fall square with quilting around two leaves



This is the summer square with leaves quilted on the green field (chalk marks visible)


Here is the finished pillow sham from the front...


...and the back. I just doubled the fabric and positioned it to overlap about 3 inches to allow the pillow form to be inserted and removed for washing. I then sewed the wrong sides of the pillow top and back together and turned it right side out.


The finished pillow.
I am very happy with how this turned out :) This is what I love so much about quilting and other hand crafts, the finished product. I hope my aunt likes it.

Almost Finished!

I am almost finished with the lap quilt I am making for my Mom. I basted the edge of the quilt to bind it.

I then used a hem stitch to bind the edge and mitre the corners.

Then I quilted along the bound edge.

I removed the basting stitches and here it is, almost ready to give my Mom for Christmas!

I still need to remove the quilting line marks from the red chalk pencil.