Some more Christmas Stuff

The End Of Christmas and the Beginning Of A New Year!

We went to Kevin and Mary Beth's house for a New Year's celebration. It was fun and the food was wonderful. Mary Beth is an excellent cook. She made lamb. Yum! Their new house was still decorated for the holidays and it was fun to see their Christmas trees. We had a very nice visit.

I also had some time to do some sewing over the holidays. I worked on the Brown Bear quilt. Instead of quilting it on the machine or by hand, I decided just to tie or knot it with colored pearl cotton embroidery thread. The quilt is rather large. It will fit a toddler bed.
Hopefully it will get a lot of use for a long time.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you see?

These are burp clothes that I made. They are so much nicer than the ones I ever used for my babies. Joe said that the pattern on the fabric would be enough to make the baby spit up!
They are very colorful.

Renee came home for a few days and I was able to get some work done on her dress. The top of the dress is the part that worries me. The skirt will be very easy as the fitting won't be as much of an issue. After we got the fitting right, Renee started playing with the idea of embroidering tone-on-tone lilies at the top and the bottom of the front panel of the bodice. I think it will be very pretty. She found a design and I am taking a class to learn the software to edit the stitch out so that it will fit. Then, I should be able to get started on the construction. Finally!

Here you can see where we pinned the paper design in the approximate on the bodice. I have to edit out a few flowers and leaves and swirls to make it more simple.

Morgan also had another piano recital.
This one was in Covesville at the Coves Presbyterian Church .
It's a lovely old church established in the 1800's.

I love the big windows and they have a beautiful piano. Even though it was very cold that day it was warm in this old church probably because of the big windows.

The pieces that she played were Ivan Sings and Important Event, op.15 no. 6 which sounded wonderful in the church. There were some other very talented kids playing as well.

Cayla came with us.