Works in progress and some finishes before Christmas.

At our modern guild meeting last week, this is the 12"  S themed wall hanging/table mat that I got in the exchange.  The best part of this exchange was that I got one from Helen and when her name was picked, she got mine?  What are the chances?  

A quilting friend from the modern guild gave me this art piece that she created.  During our Friday night sewing on Zoom, she showed the center and wasn't quite sure what to do with it and we suggested the small gold border and the larger purple one... which she did and it looked great.  At some point I told her that I would love to win something like this and voila... she gave it to me!  Lucky me.

I went through my container of Christmas projects and donated many of them to the local thrift shop because if they had been sitting around waiting for the last twenty plus years, I probably would never make them.  Then, my goal was to finish up everything in the container.  This pillow cover is finished and it was a newer kit from Missouri Star either last year or the year before in their Christmas box. 

I wanted to make a winter themed 12" hanging to put on the frame that I use in the space on the landing in our stairwell.  Am sure I could have done more with this but, as it is, it is finished.

These placemats were cut and ready for stitching.  Done!

Another small kit from Missouri star Christmas box and the pattern and charm squares were perfect to make a small table topper. 

There was a mini charm pack of 2.5" squares and am sure it was something we got in our swag bags in 2020 when our modern guild had a retreat that was cancelled and we all got swag bags and then enjoyed a weekend retreat over zoom.  So these got made into another table topper. 

This table runner isn't necessarily Christmas.  I think it is more like a winter themed table runner and it will be good in January on the dining room table. 

There was a small mug rug that needed batting, backing, and finishing.  Done!

The Quilt of Valour using the 3 yard Town square pattern is put together and pressed and now on a hanger waiting for quilting and binding.

I also pressed the 3 yard quilt made from the Favorite pattern.  Done and waiting for quilting and binding.

So, that feels good!  I have tidied up my Christmas fabrics and feel that I made great progress getting my container of projects emptied.  A lovely way to end December. 

Sadly, (because we would much rather be at our winter home in the sunshine), we are waiting for my husband to have his second carotid surgery which will be in a couple of weeks and he also had a bad experience with swallowing a camera that was supposed to take pictures of his digestive system, looking for bleeds throughout the length of his intestines.  Unfortunately, after making a 3 hour return trip in and out of the city early in the morning which followed two days of clean out of his body similiar to preparing for a colonoscopy, it seems that the camera spent the entire 7 hours in his esophagus and never left to go through his body?  I also had to make another 3 hour return trip back into the city to return the recording devices which were looked at the next day and discovered that the entire venture was for nought.  And he now needs an xray to see if the camera is still stuck somewhere in his system?  Apparently, this has only happened once before and the nurse was as stunned as I was when she called me today with the bad news.  UGH.  My poor husband didn't get to eat for two days and lived on jello and broth plus it cost us $200 as well as the time to drive and back and forth and we have no results.  We were really hoping for a result that showed us an intestinal bleed to explain his anemia but now, we are no further ahead.  

Oh well... carotid surgery coming up and life moves forward ... sometimes two steps forward and one step backward.  

Time for some Christmas baking and organizing myself for a quilting bee to try and get some quilts off hangers and finished.