More Crafting

With the scraps from the big, vision-wrecking quilt, I made a small lap quilt for my oldest son. He drew the picture with fabric markers. I'm trying to encourage the younger son to make a drawing so I can sew him a lap quilt too, but so far, no success. I think because his older brother like to draw so much, the younger one has decided that it's not his "thing", and he wants to find his own thing, different from everyone else's.

Small quilt equals less quilting and (relatively) more binding.


The warm spell ended and now it's cold again - very, very cold - so cold that even though I rarely wear hats, I knitted myself one. This is the Tychus pattern from Knitty.com. The pattern calls for 5 repeats of the panels, but I used bulky yarn (Patons Shetland Chunky) and typically knit so loosely that I needed only 4 repeats.


In case you're wondering how I got that last picture...


I couldn't resist - this is what I picked up today at Starbucks for five dollars each. They are three and a half tall.

The "branches" are made of heavy, foil-backed card stock, fine wire, beads, felt, and plastic mirrors. It's all hung on really sturdy, tree-shaped enamelled metal frames. I figure someday when the decorations deteriorate, I can re-decorate the frames.

I got some Christmas pictures from my sister in London on Friday. Unfortunately, they're saved on a CD which I don't have here right now, so I'll post those later in the week.