Christmas Part 1

Ziggy with the Ziggy Quilt

First, what we got! You know you really love your dog when your mother makes you a quilt portrait of him. The Ziggy Quilt was a gift from my mom and dad (dad assisted in the design). Ziggy's tongue is pieced together out of the pink squares from a raw silk plaid (apparently mine) that mom found in her stash. The black fabric around his nose has cats on it and some of the light brown fabric has dogs. Ziggy has a pink heart shape on his nose, which they replicated in the quilt as well. The border is quilted in bones and balls with Ziggy noses in the corners (Lynneva insisted).

Daddy's wall-hanging -
with camo, of course!

My tray

Mom also worked with the girls on this quilted tray panel (doubles as a wall-hanging) for me and the wall-hanging for their dad. The girls did the painting on the tray as well. We are so lucky to have Grandma to work with the girls on projects!

Jeanetta and her tropical quilt

Lynneva's Alaska Scene

Finally, Mom gave the girls their new bed quilts. You can really see the girls' different personalities in their quilts. Jeanetta's is a tropical themed quilt from a set of Batik Beauty exchange blocks with appliqued flowers and birds and Lynneva's is an Alaskan themed quilt based on a wall-hanging pattern Mom enlarged for hand applique. It has a mouse, squirrel, and dragonflies in the border as well as the central scene. I didn't do quite so well in my Christmas sewing endeavors, but I'll show what I did get done next time.