I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and Merry Christmas! This beautiful card came in the mail yesterday from Cathy! Thanks so much!

Here is an address book I made for my mother-in-law. Hers was such a mess I decided to do a new one for her and put all her addresses in for her. Boy was that a nightmare trying to figure it all out but it’s done =0) I used the same fabric I used on the photo album shown previously. I still have a little of that so if anyone wants to do a postcard swap after the new year, just leave me a comment.

Here’s the inside of the address book.

I finished the knitting needle case for my friend. Here is it rolled up. (poor picture, sorry)

Here’s the outside. I added hand stitched rectangles which you can’t see very well in this shot.

Here’s a closeup of the outside.

Here’s the inside. There is a large pocket on the left with velcro closure. There are three pockets in the middle for circular needles and then long skinny pockets on the right for regular knitting needles. I worked my poor little fingers to the bone getting this done not to mention by aching back! But she’s a big knitter so I’m sure she’ll appreciate it.

First things first, I don’t knit. All of these pieces were knit by someone else. One is a scarf that I got from the LYS for free and the other bits are by my friend Barb. She wanted to see how they would look if I needle felted them to a background. The background is a grey commerical felt with Icelandic wool needlefelted on top. Then I added the knitting fragments and needle felted from both sides. I am going to make Barb a knitting needle case for Christmas. I am planning on adding some FME but haven’t decided exactly what I want to do. Don’t have much time left, do I?

Closeup (fuzzy, sorry!)

More closeups…

Still more…

And the last bit – this is from the scarf.

This is a Christmas present for my brother-in-law that I made from a rust dyed piece of fabric. I made it into a small quilt which I quilted with variegated thread in a wavy line pattern. I then cut out the holes for the cards that I bought for him in Victoria, BC. I zigzagged the edges of the opening with the same variegated thread.

Here’s the final framed cards. The cards are by Kenna Fair. They are prints of her originals. She does wood cuts which she then paints. The originals were beautiful but unfortunately, I couldn’t afford one of those. So I bought two of her greeting cards.

Here’s the back. I used fusible interfacing to attach the cards. Then I fused the back of the card that tells about Kenna to that.

Here’s a closeup of the top card.

And here’s the explanation of her work. My b-i-l is a bird watcher so I hope he likes it!

This is just a quick note because we’re having an office Christmas party here at the house in 45 minutes and I haven’t changed my clothes yet. But I wanted to show you these little tree pins that I made for little gifties. Some for the party goers this evening and some for our fiber group party on Thursday. I made 8 altogether. The first ones I couched the eyelash yarn on with blanket stitch. But it took forever and kept getting tangled up. It was a PIA. I glued the remaining ones. So was I doing something wrong or is it always painful to couch eyelash yarn??