Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Merry Christmas! Thanks for Following Along With My Mad Quilting Journeys Through out the Year!

I had a couple people ask me about my Christmas quilt. It's an older pattern called 'Festival of Trees' that later came out in a book called 'Juniper and Mistletoe' by Barbara Brackman and Karla Menaugh. I love it to pieces and wish I had room to hang it on a wall somewhere for year 'round viewing and admiration. lol
Festival of Trees
I'll take it as a compliment that my oldest son snap chatted a pic of it to a friend of his right after I got it arranged to take a full-on picture of it! Fun times right now. The refrigerator is being cleaned out almost faster than I can put food in it with all the kids home for the holidays. My husband surprised me with Chinese for lunch yesterday when he offered to drive me to town (45 minutes away) to do the last little bit of shopping for stocking stuffers and Christmas Eve/Dinner grocery shopping. I do love my guy. I do, I do.
Maybe it does still works on teenagers...
I know that everyone is on their very best behavior when I still had leftover Chinese for my lunch today. Yay! The threats of possible missing Christmas presents must have worked wonders 'cuz I know they don't believe in Santa anymore,

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! It's so good to have friends that understand our mad passion for quilting. Here's a little link that made me smile 'cuz I always seem to have these kinds of dilemma's during the holiday gatherings especially. First they ask 'What have you been up to lately?' and then I have all these frantic thoughts about what and how to answer depending on who I'm talking to....

Now it's time to get off the computer and start baking. I've been told there's a list.*wink


13 comments:

  1. I love your quilt!! The variety of tree is really fun! It sounds like busy happy times at your place, just the way it should be at Christmas - Enjoy!!

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  2. Merry Christmas Audrey - it is a pleasure to keep up with you in blog land and see all that you do - my you, your husband and especially your children have a wonderful Christmas as Christmas really is for the kids isn't it - it is always such a pleasure to see the joy they have when opening presents

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  3. Wishing you a very happy Christmas Day with your family. X

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  4. Thanks for sharing yourself thru your fantastic blog. I have always loved that quilt! Merry Christmas!

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  5. Mmm..Love your quilt. And...thanks for the great link. I enjoyed. merry Christmas!

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  6. I remember The Festival of Trees pattern. I admired it many times. You did it justice in making your quilt.

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  7. Merry Christmas to you and yours, Audrey! I hope you all have a great holiday! What a wonderful time to have everyone home together.

    Thanks for the link - that really sums it up, doesn't it? Love it!

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  8. Best wishes for a happy Christmas with your family. Great to see a full on shot of your quilt. The link was an interesting read....loved the heading, you can't wrap a baby in an iPad.
    I hope you manage to find some peaceful times during the festive season to enjoy the company of family and friends.

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  9. Merry Christmas and thanks for sharing all your mad quilting journeys throughout the year! Thanks for sharing the Mary Fons link; I loved her description of quilting as being the middle of a Venn diagram! And who knew quilting in the USA was a 3.6 billion dollar business? Looking forward to a happy new year full of quilting and Nerdy-Friendly-Creative bloggers!

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  10. Merry Christmas and best wishes for a healthy and creative 2014!

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  11. Merry Christmas to you and your family too, Audrey! I look forward to another year of blogging fun! Take care, Byrd

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  12. That quilt is so beautiful :-) This is my first time visiting your blog and I'm definitely staying for a browse! Merry Christmas!

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