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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is a Bullseye quilt i finished this year. I had made our grandson one for his graduation also.\u00a0 But I never got mine completed until just a few weeks before Christmas.<\/p>\n
I love this quilt for it’s simplicity and all the different Christmas colors that are in it. It was fun to make and to quilt.\u00a0 I did it all on the sewing machine.<\/p>\n All my favorite Santas came out.\u00a0 Those two red ones belonged to David’s grandmother which she gave to us.\u00a0 They are celluoid and very old.\u00a0 I think of her every time I put them out.<\/p>\n Santa in his canoe is my very favorite one.<\/p>\n My little village. My daddy made all the houses and the church and I treasure them.<\/p>\n The cubby holds small Christmas decorations. If you can see them, there are three little wooden Santas altogether that our children received on a flight to the Virgin Islands about forty years ago. They’ve lost their beards, but I still put them out every year to remind me of the good times we had that year. The house quilt behind the cubby I made years ago and is probably one of my very favorite quilts that I have.<\/p>\n Christmas does bring out memories, doesn’t it? Some good and some not so good, but we take them because they did happen.\u00a0 The year before David and I were engaged, his mother wanted him to move back down to the Virgin Islands. He had been living with his aunt and uncle, but it wasn’t working out.\u00a0 When I thought he was going to move away, I cried for days. He went down to visit his family and they made arrangements for him to move in with his grandparents so he could finish his senior year up here.\u00a0 I was so glad.\u00a0 Then we got engaged, he joined the army and the rest is our history.<\/p>\n I love putting out my Christmas quilts. This is my chicken quilt.<\/p>\n A sheep quilt I made years ago.\u00a0 These little sheep were fun to make.<\/p>\n I made a special block with this Bible verse on it. We are His sheep if we choose to be and I choose to be.\u00a0 He takes care of us like we were His sheep. He does not want one to be lost. He will leave the ninety-nine to find the lost 100th one.<\/p>\n Finally all the gifts were wrapped. David wrapped every single one of them. We say if he didn’t wrap them, they would never be wrapped and if I didn’t shop for the gifts, there wouldn’t be any, so we make a good team. I did most of the shopping online. It’s so easy. Almost too easy.<\/p>\n Everyone in the family is getting taller than David and I. I am one grandchild short of being the shortest person in the family and by next Christmas, that will happen.<\/p>\n The stockings were hung by the chimney with care. I knit about twenty-five pair of socks this year. I hang them and let everyone choose a pair.<\/p>\n I love knitting socks. I’ve already started on next year’s.<\/p>\n What they called the Christmas Star.\u00a0 I imagine the real Christmas Star was much brighter. Two planets, Jupitor and Saturn.\u00a0 I saw a picture on Facebook of the planets taken using a telescope and it showed Saturn and it’s moons.\u00a0 We don’t think about the wonderful things all around us sometime.\u00a0 It’s amazing how wonderful our universe is and it’s still expanding because God is still creating.\u00a0 But He chose this one planet to place men on and to send His only Son. It’s all pretty miraculous if you think about it.<\/p>\n Then it was time to give out the gifts.\u00a0 My favorite thing to do.<\/p>\n Years ago I got a magazine with the quilt pattern called Grandmother’s Fancy. I’ve made a quilt or two from it, but never for the grandchildren. So this year I decided to make them all quilts with matching pillow and pillowcases.<\/p>\n He loved his new pillow.<\/p>\n Our granddaughter who will be getting married next Summer.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n