::the younger daughter:: dreamcatcher valentines

my friends and i had a 'valen-tiny' party where everyone brought VERY small valentines for everyone else.  so that's how i found myself making eight 1" diameter dreamcatchers one evening. picture on the top is by my classy friend ashlee.  picture on the bottom is by my not-as-classy cel phone.

::the younger daughter:: a medicine bag

made this medicine bag for a friend

a while back. 

but, it got lost in the mail.  

so somewhere someone hopefully found this and it made their day...

::the gramma:: machine quilted table runners

Time to get back to sharing time! 

Gramma quilted these table runners in her 'spare time'. Hah!  Mostly southwest designs, and one nicely contrasted black and white.  They will be sold to earn money for her genealogical society.  Lovely, gramma! 

:: the oldest daughter:: quilt for baby

i pieced this one... this is the first quilt for the baby. 

all four of us (three generations!) have quilted on it :)

::younger daughter::

life is an endless cycle of getting fabrics, trying to use them up, but then buying more fabrics to go with the first fabrics so you can do the projects to use them up.  

the fabrics:

and the blanket top. 

:: the younger daughter :: a wild animal

 just made this little guy.

:: the younger daughter :: christmas scraps

Alison had lots of Christmas fabric and this is what we started over Thanksgiving while I was down there...

We made double sided triangle pendants with Christmas fabric on one side and a natural-colored thin canvas on the other side... They're just stitched on along the long edges, wrong side together, so we'll probably get some fraying. but who's afraid of a little fraying?

That's as far as we got, so I picked up some cotton twill tape to assemble them garland-style while this past weekend while I was at Gramma's (BEST VISIT!). Gramma wisely has a desk for writing/working at and a countertop bar for eating at, so it leaves the dining table free for sewing projects. :)

I made one garland (red/white stripes only) by folding the tape in half lengthwise with the pendants stitched in between. (See above.) The alignment of the stitching on the back side was not awesome, so on the second garland (misc Christmas colors) I just zig-zag stitched the pendants on top of the tape.

and the finished products:

this was when i was on a business trip to tulsa last week, so i got to rent a car and head to Gramma's for a day. miss this lady!