Looks to me as if the Jolly Old Elf didn't even make it back to his comfy bed at the North Pole before collapsing.
Hope you all had a really nice Christmas Day. We weren't able to make it to our daughter and son-in-law's yesterday because of bad weather conditions.
But this morning, we have the truck packed and ready to go. Wish us luck on our hour's drive back into the boonies to Swamp River Ridge for our Christmas celebration, one day late.
When my husband was teaching, this was the Christmas wall hanging he had in his third grade classroom at this time of year.
It's about 32" x 46" and was a "Block of the Month" program I signed up for. If I remember correctly, I signed up in March of one year thinking I would have the hanging ready for that same year's holiday season. Boy, those months flew by. Boy, I fell behind quickly.
But, doggone it, I was going to have it done by December so come the month of November, I did an awful lot of applique work. I did get it finished by the first week in December.
The only thing I regret was something I didn't notice until it was up on the classroom wall for the first time. I sure do wish I had put some kind of an outer border around it. The pattern didn't call for one but every time I look at this piece, I wish I had added one. If I hadn't been in such a rush (caused by my own procrastination in the year's previous months), I think I would have had time to really look at it after I had all the blocks sewn together and before I sandwiched and bound it. Oh, well. As they say, hindsight is always 20-20.
Hope you all had a really nice Christmas Day. We weren't able to make it to our daughter and son-in-law's yesterday because of bad weather conditions.
When my husband was teaching, this was the Christmas wall hanging he had in his third grade classroom at this time of year.
It's about 32" x 46" and was a "Block of the Month" program I signed up for. If I remember correctly, I signed up in March of one year thinking I would have the hanging ready for that same year's holiday season. Boy, those months flew by. Boy, I fell behind quickly.
But, doggone it, I was going to have it done by December so come the month of November, I did an awful lot of applique work. I did get it finished by the first week in December.
The only thing I regret was something I didn't notice until it was up on the classroom wall for the first time. I sure do wish I had put some kind of an outer border around it. The pattern didn't call for one but every time I look at this piece, I wish I had added one. If I hadn't been in such a rush (caused by my own procrastination in the year's previous months), I think I would have had time to really look at it after I had all the blocks sewn together and before I sandwiched and bound it. Oh, well. As they say, hindsight is always 20-20.
