Handmade Gift from a Friend

Way back a year ago a few of us decided to participate in a "Handmade Pay-it_forward" thing. Here's the gift I received from my friend Margaret.

Reversible gift

Look what I got from Christine!




Chad was my handy helper here!

Christine made me a reversible table runner. One side is for summer and one side is for the Christmas season. I love it! Both sides have such fun fabrics! Thank you very much!

Table topper

This is a gift for a friend. I quilted this one on my machine. The small size is so much easier to quilt than a larger quilt!





Happy Birthday, Christine!

Warming with Betty for Sweet Charity

A few weeks ago someone started a "Handmade--Pay It Forward" on Facebook. The first five people to comment on a post would get a handmade item from whomever posted. The people commenting would then repost and do the same for five more people. (For some reason, I had trouble getting five people to comment, so I reposted and got the last few people for which to make something.) One of the comments was from our friend Charity (she's been Amy's friend since they were little), saying that she'd participate except that she would be too busy making things to sell to raise money for Katya's adoption and for her own violin lessons. I told her I'd include her anyway. Charity has been working hard to help her mother with all sorts of things especially the cooking and sewing. (I'm sure there's more I don't know about.)

My goal is to make each person something and give it to her for her birthday. That will spread it out over this year. (That was the other part--we each have this year to complete the "Pay It Forward".) Charity's birthday is this week.

On Friday I posted a sneak peek of a quilt.

Here's the finished quilt. I did all the work myself, including the quilting which I particularly hate doing. Because quilting is something I don't do very often I don't feel like I'm very good at it and it's just plain hard to do on a regular sewing machine. OK enough whining.



Charity received the quilt today and she said she loves it! So I'm happy.

Oh and I named the quilt "Warming with Betty" because the fabric line is called Hello Betty and last week I needed a "warming" post for photo Friday, so I put the two together. Someday when I see the quilt again I need to put a label on the back with the quilt's name, my name and the year.

The pillow

Here's the pillow dd made for Teacher Appreciation Week. It's got a green crushed velvet-type fabric for the back. It was very sweet of her.

Bitty Baby outfits

Amy really enjoyed getting these for Valentine's Day. I had fun making them also. ; )