I’m back and Last Minute Quilts

I’m back from vacation. It was great to spend some time with family. I was so happy the everyone liked the gifts I made, although for next year I really need to start making them much earlier so I’m not stressed for time. My one brother-in-law and my sister’s fiancé both loved the marshmallow guns we made (my husband did most of the work on those). I wish I had taken some pictures of them playing with them.

The last few items I had to finish up before Christmas were three quilts. I made an I-Spy quilt for each of my kids and a patchwork quilt for my husband. Patchwork quilts aren’t to sew but they are quick and easy.

As I piled flannel bolt after flannel bolt into my cart I received all sorts of looks and then was questioned by the associate what I was making when I asked for only 1/4th of a yard of each. It was so fun to find the fabrics. Oh and if you plan to do this don’t forget to check the remnants racks for a good deal. I backed both quilts with two microplush throws (they were only $2.99 at JoAnn’s on Black Friday). I had enough of the microplush fabric left over to make matching pillowcases.

I used boyish printed flannels for my son’s quilt.

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and I used girlish printed flannels for my daughter’s quilt.

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Then for my husbands quilt, I just pieced the quilt blocks together and then printed off the letters and pinned them onto a strip of grey fleece. I then separated the letters (not actually cutting the letters out) and then pinned the letters and grey fleece onto the quilt. I then did a straight stitch around the letters following the lines on the printed paper. After I sewed them down I was able to remove the paper and trim the excess fleece close to the stitching. It was pretty easy!!!

Hope everyone has had a Wonderful Holiday Season!!!

Holiday Gift Extravaganza: GiFTS FoR HiM (Updated)

Sorry for the late start. To start of the Holiday Gift Extravaganza we will start with a list of homemade gift ideas for that guy in your life!!!

**Click on the picture to go to the website with the tutorial.**

Golf Club Cozy

These are made from old sweaters! Great for the gold enthusiast.

Suitcase Handle

This would be a great way for your guy to find his suitcases on family or business trips. Just use a more masculine fabric!

Puzzle Blocks

Have a guy who works in an office? These puzzle blocks would be great and you could use family pictures so then he can display his family at the same time he could have something to fiddle with while on a phone call!

Electronics Cozy

What guys doesn’t have electronics that could use a little extra protection. You can easily adapt this tutorial to a guys by using more masculine fabric.

A Tie

Not too exciting but here’s a tutorial for making a tie. You could probably recycle and old silk dress shirt.

Personalized Rubik’s Cube

This would be great for any guy who is into rubik’s cubes. It’s not necessarily one to be played with but you could put family pictures on it like the picture or you could use your guys favorite sports team logos or mascots to decorate the cube!

Custom T-Shirts

Using masking tape or freezer paper you could design your man a shirt.

Marshmallow Gun

Since the one in the picture doesn’t have instructions I will adjust these instructions to make the one in the picture!

Wrench Casing

Does he need a way to carry his tools around. Here’s an idea and could be adapted to screw drivers too!

Whistle Lanyard

Do this in his favorite sports team or if he’s a coach use the school’s colors!

Custom Notepads

This is a great project for the kids to do for dad!

Journal

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