christmas - last year

Last year I didn't have a blog for my drabbles, but I did keep track of things. Here's last year Christmas little crafs, mostly made as gifts.

Neighbours' gifts
Some stuffed hearts, a little country in style, almost entirely hand stitched, in dyed cotton. Really pretty, and not only I liked making them, but also packing them. Plus, giving them for Christmas is just the top.

Pot holders
Always useful and never enough, in tablecloth and sweet old honeycomb fabric. You may also obviously conclude that I do love packing gifts...

 

 Stockings

I made them for my nephews. Maybe the design is not top-class (bear with me, it was my first time), but the outcome is nice... and when I filled them it really was better!

 

new kitchen curtains

My kitchen curtains were old (and, I'm afraid, a little dirty) and I didn't have a replacement to change the look. I went to my local fabric store and bought some fabric to make new curtains: I chose a modern style. This is how they came out:

the complete view

detail

The heart is one of my purchases at Abilmente: I actually bought the red ones for the kitchen and the brown ones for the living room, but the curtains in the living room are far from being completed yet...

With a fabric scrap I made a wedding dress for Barbie#6... nothing for the scrap bin, this time.

sew modern monday #36 @ canoe ridge creations

Very productive week end, finally!

I made little pants for my Smurfette#2:

Then some napkin pochettes for Sis:

And then worked some more on my secret projects #1 and #2:

That's all folks! See you next monday!

napkin pochettes

Sis is in her best could-you-please-do-it mode. After my last napkin pochettes she asked for a new set.

Promptly I made the four of them. I salute, Sis.

Since the Smurfs are little boys and can't read yet, I attached a different colored flower for each name.

The pochettes are lined with the flower fabric I used for the stripes on the outside. The beige fabric is a cotton-linen fabric (very soft). Gracie (my sewing machine) embroided the names in red (isn't she great?). The flowers are appliquéd with a very tight zig-zag. All in all, I like this pattern and I think I'll use it again... maybe for Christmas presents...?

placemats

four of them

Again, for my sister, but this time breakfast placemats.

Every placemat, made with kitchen cotton fabric, is embroided in stem stitch with a mug pattern: coffee, tea, cocoa and milk... after all, Sis uses them for breakfast, right?

The embroidery patterns have been inspired by some pictures I found on iStockPhoto (I can't seem to find them any more, though).

I lightly stuffed the placemats, but only a little, to "save" the table from too hot mugs. They are cute, what do you think?

  

packed up

cross stitch napkin pochettes

four of them

packed up for Sis

My sister asked begged me to make some napkin pochettes, 'cause in a family of four it's sometimes difficult to know which napkin is yours...

I decided to go with cross stitch on cotton etamine cloth. And I must say they really came out well. Sis certainly liked them...