Day 6: Ornament for Quilt Friend

We had our Quilt Guild Christmas Party a few nights ago. We were asked to bring a handmade ornament to add to a quilted tree wallhanging for our hostess. She generously offers her huge, beautiful home whenever we have a gathering. I wish I had thought to take  a picture of the tree. It was about 48" tall and 18" wide and had buttons scattered on it to hold the ornaments.

I found this in the hoop embroidered owl ornament. It was part of a set with some cute ideas. They are meant to hold candy canes, but I had mine carry a seam ripper, to go with the theme.

The tree looked beautiful. I'd like to make one like it someday!

Day 5: Christmas Shirt Results!

Here is my favorite picture of the ones we got wearing the Christmas shirts. We had a lot of fun with this. Andy liked hanging between Mom & Dad! I bought the Santa hats at Walmart. I'm glad I did because it adds some color.  We got some beautiful shots of the 5 kids in red/green, too. I'll show those later when I share the ties I made for the cuties.

Today we took Carter to Agway to have a picture taken with Santa. He was wearing his red sweater, but it's hard to see! Then we went to some craft fairs and I moved the chicken coop to "winter quarters." Tomorrow will be Christmas tree day. We wanted to go today, but everyone is fighting a cold.
Tomorrow I will start showing some of the Christmas gifts I've been working on!

Day 4: Shirts for "The Guys, ah, Geeks"

I saved the best for last. Today I will show you the Christmas shirts I made for Hubby and Pete. I originally planned to make shirts only for the kiddos, but when I had an inspiration for hubby's, I had to expand to all 7 of us.

I can think of some friends who will get this right away. If you don't, it's binary. Each letter is represented by a series of 1s and 0s. I "sort of" get it. #1 Son lives this stuff. He tells me next year's shirt must be Elvish or Draconian. Yeah, Ok.

Now, the "piece de resistance". The inspiration for the series! The "creme de la creme" of the geek world:

Some of you are laughing right now. I know. Others are thinking, "what the heck?" It's Klingon, from Star Trek. Hubby has a long love affair with the many series of Star Trek. I wasn't even born when the original series was on, but hubby loved watching re-runs as a tot. He was a tot when men landed on the moon and remembers thinking it wasn't a big deal, because people had already traveled the galaxy. When we were dating, I was thrilled to find a guy who was only addicted to one hour a week, not hours of sports! So, this has fond memories for me. This font feels "Klingon-y" to me, but it's actually called "Daggers" from Jolson's. Shocking that no one has digitized the real Klingon font, is it not??

So, tune in tomorrow and I'll show you how the pictures turned out!! Merry QISmaS!!