When Your Christmas Presents Need Explaining

For Christmas, SonStitches and Daughter-in-lawStitches gave me a few things that were on my wish list.  However, they had no idea what they were!!  So I had some "splaining" to do.

These cute little curley-cues are actually to control thread ends on spools that don't catch the thread.

Voila!

And I actually made some bias tape while they were here to demonstrate these bias tape makers.

Awesome Christmas presents!  Thanks, guys!!

Christmas Stitching

Here are some Christmas presents I made last month. The quality of these photos proves that you really can have too much sunlight in your pictures!

They are not very big. The rectangular ones are about 8" by 4".

The square ones are about 4 or 5 inches square.

They are from a pattern by Bareroots. Small and easy to whip up. I love the detail and quality of Bareroots patterns.

I attached narrow green ribbon when sewing them together to make a hanger. They could be used as tree ornaments or (especially the larger ones) door knob hangers.

Fabric Bowl

This shot makes it look extremely wavy-edged, but I wanted to show you a photo of another fabric bowl I made. This time for a Christmas present. As you can see, I've used a variety of Christmas-y fabrics to wrap around the clothesline.

This next photo shows a close-up of the decoration I put on the side. I simply made three little coils with green fabric, then sewed them onto the sides of the bowl.