Very proud of my daughter for seeing a need in her regional town and starting up a market stall, which will help eliminate excess plastic packaging. I made a quick apron for her, with her logo printed on a pocket. The fabric is an old thick cotton sheet which fits in well with my daughter's way of living. Will have to make one for the granddaughter as well.
Some visiting children at my daughter's house needed Christmas stockings for Christmas Eve, otherwise how will Santa find them? so I whipped up a couple fairly quickly. Most of the Christmas fabrics in my stash are more than twenty years old and are a bit old-fashioned. However the thought is still there and Santa won't mind, will he?
Stockings finished size: approx. 67cm x 46cm
I've made quite a few Christmas stockings over the years. I made the first two for my children, back in the early 1990s. Then it was a thing for me to make them for all the nieces and nephews in my husband's family during the 1990s. Maybe 12 all up? I may have made them for the nephews on my side but I can't remember, and my records don't show that.
Then I had a big gap until I made this one for the granddaughter in 2018. Choice of fabrics and their orientation on the base make a big difference.
While searching through the box of Christmas fabrics for strips for stockings, I found some half made oven mitts. I didn't want to put them back in the box so finished them off in an hour or so. Pretty rough finishing but at least they are now out of the box and can be used/donated.
I'm still working through the wall hanging for my friend. It is a very organic process and I'm enjoying it, although it does take time. And I've almost finished the latest round of the Quattro quilt, although with an increase in evening social activities due to lockdown finishing and the festive season coming up, I've not spent as much time hand sewing in front of the TV as I would like.
Some of my blog readers had trouble seeing the photo of the granddaughter in her new dress. I've updated that post so please have a look on the website: www.patchmaggie.blogspot.com if you're reading this as an email.
I'm not talking about sewing goals for a while. Since I've failed miserably the last few months at completing many, or even any, of the month's sewing goals, I've decided to just go with the flow and be happy with what I do achieve.
December 2021 fabric tally:
The apron used about 1m of stash fabric, and the two new stockings and two oven mitts used about 2m total of stash fabrics. (I have too much Christmas fabric in the stash, considering I hardly ever use it these days, although it has come in handy this month!)
And I admit that I did visit a fabric shop - just because it was there: Gail's Patchwork Emporium in Sebastopol, and I had time to kill while the Handy Helper was working - so I bought 4.5m of fabrics - a couple of new (to me) cat fabrics and some useful border and binding fabrics.
I'm still way ahead this year on using up fabric from the stash, so am proud of myself for that.
Fabric brought in: + 4.5 m Fabric used: - 3 m
Total for Dec: + 1.5 m
Running total for 2021: - 21 m
