Well, my weekend included successfully packing up the Christmas Decor. Finally. I also half-heartedly decorated our mantle with a bunch of frames I didn't feel like hanging up on the wall (we had a long picture wall at our old house, but this house has a darker hallway and I haven't been as interested in recreating it.) It does make the living room feel a little more homey, though. Except for the giant empty corner now, treeless and dull.
In other news, I practiced some Ninjago skills lately, you know, copying whatever I could find on Pinterest for a special boy's 9th!!! birthday party. The first were Ninjago suckers, just glued some tissue paper on and then some internet-printed eyes.
Also, I completed my first and last "big" sewing project, a quilted blanket for my sister for Christmas. I bought the quilt squares pre-cut and pre-coordinated (a big must for me) then sewed them together, sewed on the brown outside...soft blankie material on the back and a #(*%%# satin blanket trim. Like I said...nothing that big again, ever. That quilt better last, like, 20 years for my sister. Just sayin',
Have you been up to making anything lately???
2 comments:
Those all look awesome! DId you quilt the blanket yourself or have someone else do it? I love piecing quilts together, but I hate the actual quilting part.
Hey Em, I did the "knotting" method. Since the backside was furry rosette fabric (literally twists...i should have gotten a picture) I wasn't sure how quilting it would turn out. So every couple squares I painstakingly knotted all the layers together and blended the ends into the rosette fabric.
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