It's Gift Giving Season

Which also means it's gift MAKING season!

Here is another completed Christmas present.  In the picture it didn't have the back yet but you get the idea.  The nerve wracking thing about this gift is it is going to my friend who quilts...BY HAND!!  I am so worried about all the flaws that are inevitably there.  I will say this is my best one to date, probably because I was so careful with it knowing who it was going to!

I liked this A LOT!  I haven't done anything so "complicated" before.  I have it in quotations because it wasn't really complicated but it's a step up from my usual patchwork.  I am thinking of making myself one in Christmas fabrics to put on my table (now that I'm obsessed with a pretty table).  We'll see if that gets done before Christmas.

As usual at this time of year much crafting is getting done but many things aren't posted because those people read the blog.  Dont' want to ruin anyones surprise!  As I do more for un-blog related people I will post and after Christmas I will post the rest.

Enjoy any time you may get to spend with friends and family tomorrow and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Fall Decor

So inspired by this at Make It and Love It:

{original site and tutorial found here}

I set about to make my own, really how much easier can you get?  Ever since I put a table cloth on my table, for July 4th and my littlest ones first birthday, I have fallen in love with table linens.  It's funny because that tablecloth was a cheap little vinyl one however I now find the need to have a tablecloth on the table!  We currently have a cute vinyl Halloween one on our table but come Nov 1st that ones out and fall decor will take over.  I've already bought a pretty cloth autumny one and when I saw this a couple weeks ago I thought it would be a perfect accessory for the tablecloth.

I won't go into the details about how this runner caused me to want a plain fall tablecloth to go with it.  Which then caused me to want something to put on this runner.  Which then caused me to go on a manhunt to find something nice to put something else in.  That caused me to buy a bunch of gourds because the colors are just fabulous but I still needed something to put the gourds in.  I couldn't just throw then on the runner!  Well last night I finally found a wire basket which is exactly what I was looking for (how often does that happen) and it was only $5.  Since I finally found the basket I could finally make the runner.  I wanted to make the runner to the size of the basket/tray/whatever I found.

Today I finally sat down and made it while my son was making some Halloween decorations.  I didn't sew it but I hot glued it and it worked fine.  I will say hers looks better but I think that has a lot to do with the fact that her leaves are much better looking!  What can I say, I found them for a buck.  Now on Monday I'll be all set to switch out the table cloth and put the runner, basket and gourds all to good use.  Once everything's in place I'll snap a pic!  Until then here is a snippet of my runner.