Last Bit of Christmas Sewing

Alrighty, here's the last of my Christmas sewing reveal.

In the two weeks before Christmas I also made eight potholder/trivets, various sizes and styles, all made with a 12 days of Christmas Charm pack.

(I adore Kate Spain)

I didn't have a chance to take any pictures of them, Mr. Chaos was wrapping them as quick as I could finish them.

My sister-in-law was nice enough to snap of picture of the one I made for her, so you can get the general sense of what they looked like.

I've decided that grommets are the best.

love them.

gonna use them all the time.

I also made ten of these

Crayon totes for my nieces and nephews.

Yup.

Ten.

I only needed 9, but I somehow mis-counted the number of "boy" ones and "girl" ones so I have an extra boy one.

I'll save if for a random birthday gift.

All of the totes are different.

My kids picked who got which one, it was really fun to watch them figure out who would like what.

I was a bit nervous because the two oldest are in 6th grade, and I thought they might be a bit old for them.  I swapped out the crayons for colored pencils, and they love them.

That does it for my Christmas craziness.

four big quilts,

eight quilted potholders/trivets

and

ten crayon totes.

Sew In Results

I had a pretty productive evening!  I caught up with my Pinwheel Sampler:

One of the ladies participating in the quilt along commented that there was a lot of "white" in the quilt, so I opted to use the solids that were in the layer cake for these two backgrounds.  I made the tiny pinwheel cause I could.  I don't have a clue what I'll do with it, but it sure is cute.

I almost finished the crayon tote for the Boy: 

He loves Spiderman :)

I got about halfway through the crayon tote for Muffin:

And I cut and pieced the borders for one of the Carolina Christmas Throws.

All in all, a good night!

Artista Crayon Totes

Before Christmas I found this totally cute pattern from Frog Legs and Ponytails.  Generally I don't buy patterns but this one is totally adorable.  Also a selling point for me was the note that small scale production was okay.  I don't think I'd make any to sell, but having the option is nice.

There's room for eight crayons and the other side has two pockets.

The only change I made to the pattern was to add some stiff interfacing with the batting to give it a bit more shape.  The pattern has yardage requirements but I did it with fat quarters.

We're going on a "family adventure" next week and my goal is to have 3 of these completed.

The first one is done, just needs a button.

Can't decide which button to use though....

I think it turned out totally cute!