Sandra Loves Sewing: Retirement quilt

Sandra Loves Sewing: Retirement quilt: No, not my retirement, quite a way off that! My friend Ronda and myself decided that we would make a retirement quilt for our colleague, I...

Retirement quilt

No, not my retirement, quite a way off that!

My friend Ronda and myself decided that we would make a retirement quilt for our colleague, Ian. Men's quilts can be difficult as you are limited to the style and colours.  I think we were quite successful with our efforts:

Using tartans and golfing themed fabric the quilt turned out quite well. After all it did get a paw of approval:

Merry Christmas everyone, may you have a wonderful time with family and friends.

Sandra

Sandra Loves Sewing: Elves handy work....

Sandra Loves Sewing: Elves handy work....: Pesky Elves are now whipped into line, well almost. First Christmas present finished and will be given to the special person tomorrow. T...

Elves handy work....

Pesky Elves are now whipped into line, well almost.

First Christmas present finished and will be given to the special person tomorrow.

Taken from:  Quilting Arts - Create Handmade Gifts for All - Candy Glendening. I decided that  I would make for a few people the 'Journal and Sketchbook Cover'.  Here's the first one off the rank:

I found a lot of preparation goes into making these, but, once prepared, are very quick to put together. I guess, preparing eight of them would take a bit of time.  I am happy with the outcome, someone asked me whether people still used notebooks, I still do.  I actually use a mixture of electronic and a notebook or diary.  I think most of us teachers do, perhaps more for To Do lists.

I decided that I think my recipients would still like them. So I went ahead.  Inside the front cover is a business card holder and on the back cover is an area for other notes.

Spiral bound notebooks are from Daiso.

I have more to show you, however, I will share next week. Have a good week everyone.

Sandra

Those pesky elves...

Those pesky elves were quiet for a while.  Seems they haven't been focused on the purpose to their being...to start making those Christmas gifts.

So, last weekend I found where they were hiding, seems they had started early with their post Christmas celebrations without completing all their Christmas tasks! Santra was not happy.

They've been hard at work this week trying to find a balance between work duties and Christmas duties.  They've finished some of their Christmas duties tonight. They are working on a project of Notebook covers. Everything is in stages. Hopefully we will have finished projects by the weekend and photos to show you......Santra (alias Sandra D)