Showing posts with label quilts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilts. Show all posts

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Homemade Gifts

fun monday It has been a very long time since I have played Fun Monday but Jill made it next to impossible to resist. She asked us to share our experiences homemade gifts. . .

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This is the third year I've made our Christmas cards, people seem to like them.  I love to paper craft!  This year I just made this one design and it was pretty quick.  Now I need to actually mail them, lol.

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My mom often makes quilts and as you can see with my grandson, they are huge hits!

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One of my blogger friends, Snowcatcher, shares a new crocheted snowflake pattern, of her own design, every single Monday.  I have not crocheted since I was a wee girl, with my grandma.  These snowflakes have kicked my butt!  It took me hours of trying to just get simply one to not look like a chaotic knot of thread, lol.  I was determined to make a few for people I thought would appreciate them.  After about 3 hours of attempts I finally got one lopsided flake.  I kept going and I have now made 9, none are perfect like Snowcatcher's, but I am hoping the people I share them with will simply appreciate that I tried, and tried, and I was thinking of them the entire time or I would have given up.  {If you feel like you read this part before it's because you did, I posted about the snowflake a few days ago in my cancer daily posts but it fit so well here I posted it again.}

You can see more Fun Mondays by going to Life is Not Bubble Wrapped.