Christmas wrap-up

It has been awhile.  We've been busy with the holidays and, of course, being sick.  The week before Christmas is always a hectic rush to get gifts finished and mailed off to family and friends.  So here's a wrap-up of the Christmas sewing and crafting.

My husband has been asking for a quilt for a long time.  It seems I'm always making one for someone else so I my goal for Christmas was to make him his own and we've named it the Husband Quilt.  Keeping this quilt a secret until Christmas was quite a challenge because I don't have much patience and wanted to give it to him the second it was finished.

The top is a collection of Timeless Treasures Tailor flannel and the back is this Riley Blake flannel.  They are both incredibly soft.  I used wool batting for the first time so this is one warm quilt!  The wool batting has quite a bit more loft than I'm used to but I think it's great in this quilt.

Finished size: approximately 66x66 in

 I stuck with a simple pattern for the top (HST) because I haven't worked with flannel much.  I love the way it turned out.  This is probably my favorite quilt (tied for first with L's bed quilt, naturally).

Pieced binding with remaining flannel and diagonal quilting

L is quite the helper so I decided to make him his own apron.  I made a few of these for my nephews for their birthdays earlier in the year and he loved them but wasn't quite ready for one of his own.

Cupcakes for helping Mama in the kitchen

One side for helping Daddy in the garage

L loves his new apron and I'm certainly looking forward to him helping me out in the kitchen.

Adam has taken up wood working recently and has made some really cool stuff; including this bird puzzle for his dad.

He also made this awesome bird mobile for one of our nephews.  Adam did the cutting and I did the painting.

Lots of bird watchers in our family.

Adam has made some cool boxes out of old pallets, a step stool for L's bathroom, and lots of other things.

Now we just need to finish organizing the garage so he actually has some room in there!

Back in November I started working on a 12+2=Q quilt by Oh, Fransson!  I was a little ambitious thinking I could finish that, along with all my other projects, before Christmas.  Needless to say it's not done.  That is at the top of my to-do pile right now.