12 Days of Christmas – Day 12

Journal

December 24, 2024

These snowmen are based on a pattern that the girls’ Nana made for them many years ago and that I hang on my tree every year. I updated the pattern and had a lot of fun putting the snowmen together and gathering photos to fit inside the window.

These are the tags I used on this parcel

This will be my last year putting together these 12 Day packages. It has been fun but it gets more difficult every year to find the gifts. I was doing it for the grandchildren over the years but they are all adults or almost-adults and getting the entire family together to open the gifts isn’t always easy.

Not to worry though. I have already started on next Christmas’ surprise.

Big Red

Quilting

December 2024

My version of Old Blue by Laura Heine

I started this in 2019 at a Guild weekend workshop. It was set aside until this year when it popped up as my August UFO. I was determined to get it done.

This is the truck in Elizabeth & Ray’s garage that inspired me.

There is something on this for everyone. The truck, obviously, for Elizabeth and Ray, a cat for Madison, butterflies for Asher, lizards for Gavin and daisies in the wheel wells for Elizabeth.

There is even a squirrel – the nemesis in Elizabeth’s garden.

This piece will be entered into the 2015 Quilt Show.