Christmas Cheer

T'was the night before Christmas and mom is still cleaning, shopping, wrapping and blogging!

I helped decorate my colleague's and my office before leaving for Venice. At least that was done when I came back to Canada! I had one week to get ready for the holidays, and I spent most of it in bed or helping my daughter who was even sicker than I. Oh well, I'm sort of rested and at least we weren't sick during our trip 😊.

Office decorations & hexies

If I'm writing a post, it's probably because there are textiles or fibre involved :-)

My office decorations

My colleague's
decorated office

I created these two hangings years ago. They are both made of wool roving on hand-woven backgrounds.

Snowman hanging

I used to use the hangings to display the Christmas cards....do you remember those days when we sent and received lots of Christmas cards? That was essentially before the internet and social media. Things have changed.

I've kept the prettiest or most sentimental of the Christmas cards. They are great for decorating or making other things.

The office plant is decorated with a double-woven decoration.

Decorating the office plant

This is the second Christmas hanging with brand new Christmas hexies - made last night!

Christmas hexies

This year I've only taken out a couple of bags of Christmas fabric scraps. I don't have that much Christmas fabric but I knew that I wouldn't be making anything significant this year, so the scraps were fine.

I found enough red fabric to make one hexie and then fussy cut other fabrics for two more hexies. I'll be adding these to the piece I'm making with the #100hexies100days2018.

Light Christmas themed hexies

Dark Christmas themed hexies

Christmas Runner

A couple of years ago I made this Christmas runner for a friend but, of course, forgot to take pictures. Her kids like snowmen, so I added a couple of snowman blocks at each end, with star block in between. I'll look into my Christmas quilting magazine stash to see where it comes from and add it later.

Snowman Christmas runner

Snowman Christmas runner

The back of the Snowman Christmas runner

Season Wishes

I wish you a wonderful holiday season. It's not always an easy time of the year but I hope that you get some time to enjoy your family &/or friends, great food, and some quilting and resting time.

What I learned

• I don't think that I could have expected to be sick when I got back but this year my family decided to keep everything really simple for Christmas. I hope that we do that each year. BTW, I cleaned (sort of) and decorated the house yesterday with my daughter. The guys had put up the Christmas tree before we got back, so that was a wonderful surprise! I am almost ready.😊
• I still have a few posts to write before the end of the year, including some exciting news, so look for them soon. 

Related links

• 100 hexies in 100 days 2018 event on Instagram
• Final 100 hexies in 100 days related posts
• EPP or English Paper Piecing Fun, December 1, 2018

Linking parties
I will be linking to a lot of link-ups, so check them out! Monday Making, What I Made Monday, To-Do Tuesday, Linky Tuesday, Tuesday Colour Linky Party, Let's Bee Social, Midweek Makers, Oh Scrap!, Silly Mama Quilts - WIPs, ScrapHappy Saturdays, Friday Foto Fun, Can I Get A Whoop Whoop?,
I've also linked this post to Sandra's Throwback Thursday since these are almost all older, non-posted projects!