More time ago than I’d like to admit, I started knitting the handtowels from the Mason Dixon ladies’ first book. This is one of those projects that I don’t have to hide away in my studio to work on, or…
2010 Christmas Cards
When you go as ridiculously overboard as I do every Christmas, you can’t do it all in a month. It takes a lot of careful planning. So every year around this time, I make my Christmas cards for the Christmas…
Quilt of Hate no more
Nearly three years later, I’ve finally finished it. My almost disastrous satin quilt project. All my fears about the unintentional swastika pattern (that isn’t *technically* a swastika pattern because it faces the wrong way, but whatever, try explaining that to…
Snowfall Tree Skirt
Before I put Christmas away for good, I thought I’d share one last project I finished off this month that didn’t fit it with all the Woodland tree stuff. Ray Ray nude woman rray845 Last year’s new tree was my…
Woodland Tree
I raced to snap some pictures in between present making and present wrapping, so they’re not exactly magazine worthy, but I think you’ll get the idea anyway. Since this is my fourth full sized tree, I had to go a…
Glittered Ornaments
My last ornament post! Phew! This one should really barely even count as an ornament post since it’s hardly a tutorial. But I figure that Martha has done demonstration after demonstration on how to glitter something, so maybe I should…
Acorn Ornaments and Moss Balls
I googled from one end of the internet to the other looking for inspiration for an acorn ornament, and I ran into the same problem every time. If you have an acorn cap, you can make loads of great stuff.…
Stuffed Bird Ornaments
With the exception of a glittered deer I made before I thought the whole thing through, I didn’t put any animals on this tree. I was thinking about doing some cool things with faux fur, but then I decided that…
Velvet Leaves
Years and years and years ago, inspired by the Carol Duvall show and all the embossed velvet projects she features, I made this garland consisting of a gazillion embossed velvet leaves I glued on to wire and braided together. When…
Twiggy Stars
I still have so many ornament ideas that I’m going to have to post twice a day until Christmas, so I’m going to try and be brief. I don’t think it will surprise regular readers to hear I went overboard…