Our Christmas Gift

This is Christmas Nativity Stained Glass Window Hanger from Sweet Pea Machine Embroidery. It is 6 x 10 inches.  I was fortunate to make it with fabrics in my stash.  It is a combination of cottons and batiks.  The blocks are fairly easy to make but putting it together is another challenge.  It has been gifted.
 

Chain Links

 Chain Links is from Stunning 3-D Quilts by Ruth Ann Berry.  My grandson chose this quilt for his University of Kansas graduation.  The quilt is quite long.  It has over 1000 pieces that had to be ironed open.  It was very easy to choose the wrong hue of a color and then have to remake most of the column.  But it is beautiful and worth the time for my grand!

I belong to a long-time sewing group that fills Samaritan's Purse's Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes. Last year we tie-dyed shirts for the boxes.  This year I am trying some other designs for our dyeing event.  The heart shirt will be one choice.  I think it is the essence of our effort.

Noah's Ark Quilt

 This is a panel that I have had sewn for several years.  I found a cute Noah's ark flannel backing at the local quilt shop that was a perfect match for this quilt.  Then I used Bubbles from Designs by Juju for the quilting. It is an end-to-end design.  My embroidery machine is a 10 needle Babylock.  The new big magnetic frame from Brother is perfect for end-to-end designs. I am very pleased with the final project!

Eyeglass Cases

These are eyeglass cases that I made with my serger today.  The pattern comes from a book by Georgie Melot titled Ready Set Serge.  The book contains quick and easy projects you can make in minutes with the serger.  You can also make these with a regular machine.  You can make one in less than 10 minutes once you know the steps.  I am making them to put into the shoeboxes that are sent to Samaritan's Purse.
 

 The is the Nativity Table Runner from Designs by Juju. The original was really a table runner and I wanted to make a version that would look nice hung on a wall.  Juju designs are always beautiful and wonderfully digitized.

Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes

 Monday was the first big step in the transportation of this year's shoeboxes to their final destination.  My church and my sewing group worked to provide 260 shoeboxes this year.  The boxes are heading to Denver to a Samaritan's Purse processing center and then they will head to children across the world.  The boxes are the first step in learning that Jesus loves each and everyone of us.  The child also has the opportunity to know Jesus as their savior.  God's blessing on each and every box.