My grandmama's china

 I always like to display my Grandmama's china in January and February.  It's Nocturne and it has black roses with blush petals.  I made the runner to go with it in 2016.

And then in 2021 I made this wall hanging for the adjacent wall.

I think my Grandmama would like them both!

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!

Baby quilt

Made this baby quilt for my grand-nephew.  His parents both went to UH.  It will have a red minky backing. Chisel block made with my 8 inch Qube companion set-corners.

All the best people are!

I have finally finished my We're All Mad Here cross-stitch.  I bought this pattern on Etsy.  I love the wide-eyed crazy of this cat.  I found it difficult to stitch on the black aida of course.  I have poor vision anyway but this was a real challenge.  I usually stitch in hand but this required me to use a hoop.  I kept a white flour sack towel on my lap while I stitched but found that I really needed to have natural light. I had to look through the stitches to be able to stitch properly.  If you look closely at the smile below you can see how the black stitches really make the smile standout versus just leaving the background fabric.   I admit, I was tempted to just leave it and be finished!