Santa!

 I always like to decorate the china hutch I inherited from Grandmama. Usually I use the Christmas tree stoneware and bits of china and a few bits and bobs.  But this year I was inspired by Tea With Friends to display all of my Santa face mugs.

I added a few St. Lucia dolls and my Berggren God Jul sugar bowl and creamer.  And as many bottle brush trees that I could round up! This was really fun to play with and I may do it again next year.  

Learning Rulerwork

 I took a beginning rulerwork class from Katie from Fabrikated Quilts at the Houston Quilt Festival earlier this month.  Katie was a great teacher and I learned so much.  Take a look at my work:

I would like to try to quilt some of my small quilts like tablerunners and a couple of panel quilts but I didn't want to invest in a ton of rulers.  Thankfully my QuiltyBFF lent me a Westalee set:

So all I needed to do was buy the correct rulerwork foot for my sewing machine.  It came in over the weekend but I was busy working on blocks.  I'm hoping to give it a good try very soon!

this was not what i planned to work on. . .

I was planning to cut out two blocks for my LQS' Saturday Sampler but this squirrel wandered in and was very demanding.  Accuquilt Maple Leaf die and scrappy bits from stash.
 

Twilight cabin

 This was a free pattern from equilter.  When I saw it I just knew my DH would love it.  The pattern was not great but it was free and it turned out just fine!