Happy Holidays

I hope you're all having a nice holiday! We returned from Chris's family's place yesterday, and today I thought I would take a few pictures of the projects I've been working on secretly for weeks.

A few months ago Chris mentioned that a "space ship quilt" would be nice. At first I couldn't think of anything space-ship-like that would lend itself to a quilt. Then Chris drew me a zeppelin/blimp-like thing one day, and I was able to see how it might work. Many of the fabrics I used are thrifted and worn, so I thought I'd try and make it look a bit old-fashioned and old, like a family heirloom. The back is a white cotton sheet, and I added some white to the top to keep it light and airy. I mainly worked on it when he wasn't home, and told him it was for his mum, and I guess I really did fool him because Christmas morning he was surprised when I told him it was for him. Ha ha, gotcha.

I'm happy to have it done, and happy that Chris likes it. I think I will redo the binding at some point though, because it's really pretty sloppy.





It's impossible to see in this (horribly blurry) picture, but there's a little flag at the top that says "Chris's Blimp" written on it.



This sock monkey was a last minute thing, and I barely had time to finish it (I actually brought it to work with me the day I left for his parents' place so I could work on it before opening the store). He has a little back pack with a love letter in it from Sock Monkey Tere. This of course is Sock Monkey Chris. It was really important that he get this for Christmas because I wanted him to have it for when I--I mean Sock Monkey Tere-- leaves to go overseas.





We had a very nice and very fun holiday. It was very entertaining to have four little kids running around, one of which rolled down a flight of stairs and then later flew down the banister...:-)