It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

...at least inside my house. The weather has been in the 70's so it isn't feeling like holiday time at all. But I decorated this week! I made a fresh cranberry garland for our alpine Christmas tree. My first project began with a couple of ingredients:

And ended up with this:

It will be interesting to see what happens to the fresh berries...hopefully I won't end up with a craisin garland. It is quite a simple tree. When we decided to go with a skinny alpine tree, it looked funny with most of the decorations I had collected over the years. So I haven't really decided what to do with it. But I feel a lot of pressure to do something awesome with it, probably because my mom always has the most incredible trees! I will probably save that project for next year, though.

I added a couple of stockings to my etsy account. And they sold within a couple of hours. And the buyer wanted a matching round quilt for a small table tree. Here are my items:

And I am sooooo incredibly proud of myself! When the client said she wanted a "round" quilt, I almost died! I have never attempted anything involving curves. I had a phobia about curves! And the bias binding scared me too! It just didn't make sense in my head how it would work. I knew I was avoiding something I really should know how to do...but I just put off learning it as long as possible. I actually think the trickiest part was creating the pattern piece with my homemade protractor (pencil and string). I am very happy I know how to do this now! (Thanks for helping me on the phone, Mom!)