{"id":11367,"date":"2021-12-29T01:41:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T01:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=11367"},"modified":"2021-12-29T01:41:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T01:41:29","slug":"what-i-made-and-a-wonderful-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=11367","title":{"rendered":"What I Made and a wonderful Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope your Christmas was as wonderful as mine. It’s always good to have family around and eat good food and open presents.<\/p>\n

I worked up to the day before finishing presents.\u00a0 It was a work of love, for sure, and I enjoyed every moment of it.<\/p>\n

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First of all, the socks. These are a few of the socks I have knitted this year.\u00a0 I hang some of them on the mantle and let people pick out the pair they want.\u00a0 This year I knit over twenty pair of socks and had some left over.\u00a0 I have already started next year’s batch.<\/p>\n

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I made this pillow for our daughter. My mother made the Dresden plate many years ago out of her old dresses and aprons and\u00a0 one of my dresses.<\/p>\n

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The purple fabric is from a dress I wore when I was little. I remember that dress well. I loved it and hated when I outgrew it.<\/p>\n

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I made patchwork pillowcases for some.<\/p>\n

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Another pillow I made.<\/p>\n

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A small quilt with four barns on it with four different quilt patterns in the door.<\/p>\n

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I made several pillows from this pattern from a book I got from Country Threads.<\/p>\n

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I love this one with the moon where the star should be.\u00a0 I have already got a request for another one.<\/p>\n

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I also did one in Christmas colors.\u00a0 These were so much fun to make, I could not stop making them.<\/p>\n

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My daughter got a new kitty before Christmas. She lost one of her sweet dogs and the kitty helped her so I made her this quilt.\u00a0 I had this quilt pieced for years and never finished it, but when I saw her new kitty, I knew that I would have to finish it for her. The fabric was in my mother’s stash that I received after she died.<\/p>\n

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This was the backing. You know how sometime you make something to give away and you hate to give it away?\u00a0 \u00a0 This quilt was one of those.<\/p>\n

This isn’t all the things I made, but I haven’t given away some things so I can’t show you.\u00a0 It was fun making everything and I have ideas for next year, but first, I am going to work on things for a sale I want to have next October or November. I plan to make lots of pillows, small quilts, socks and other things to sell in my shop.\u00a0 Kind of a one woman Christmas bazaar.\u00a0 I will see what I can get done and whether I will make enough to have the sale.<\/p>\n

David made picket fences and birdhouses for everyone and they were pleased to get them\u00a0 I used the one he made for me as decoration on our front porch with garland and lights on it.<\/p>\n

Went to the eye doctor and he said my eye was doing very well, but he wanted to see me again in six months.\u00a0 I asked him if I was going to have to see him every six months forever and he asked me, “Don’t you like us!”\u00a0 Ha.\u00a0 I like them, but that doesn’t mean I want to go there every six months. It’s a forty-five minute drive and several hours wait for a five minute checkup so no, I don’t like seeing them!<\/p>\n

We had a very nice Christmas with the grandchildren. We gave them these balls that fly and return to them, among other things, and they were a hit. Balls were flying everywhere!\u00a0 I\u00a0 gave our granddaughter a quilt I made several years ago and got a blue ribbon at the county fair.\u00a0 I told her at the time that when I died she would get it, but I got to thinking maybe she may not get it after I died, so I gave it to her for Christmas. I took lots of pictures of it and I will show you my next post.\u00a0 It’s a Little Garden Girls quilt.\u00a0 Another gift it was hard to give away, but I’m glad I did.\u00a0 I know she will cherish it and take care of it, maybe for her daughter one day.<\/p>\n

Here’s to Christmases past and present and may we always have a reason to celebrate because we do.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n

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