Mugs Rugs Made Into Pot Holders

    I found a cute mug rug pattern at Quilt Addicts Anonymous, link here.  The pattern is free, but you do have to put it in a cart to get the download.  

    I enjoyed making these tree blocks.  I used Christmas fabric I already had and muslin for the background, but I did buy two yards of the green fabric I used for the borders, backing and binding.  They finish at 8" before binding, so I added 1.5" borders to them to make them a little bigger for potholders.  I put two layers of cotton batting in my potholders with a layer of insul-brite in the between the cotton batting.  I like the scrappy trees, but I really like the tree where I used the Christmas light fabric on the entire tree.  That is my favorite.  I made seven of these potholders.  Three for me, three for dear daughter, and I sent one up to my sweet big brother who is always looking out for me.

I have more fabric cut to make more of these blocks for a wallhanging.  So that's what I'm doing in January, making home decor items for Christmas 2021.

New Bedroom Curtains

  I finally finished my floral bedroom curtains.  I love this fabric and all the pink and green that is going on here.  They were fun to make and super quick.


 

All the Lovely Thread, Lots and Lots of Thread

         I have a collection of all purpose thread in these boxes.  This thread collection goes back a few years.   When I was making clothes and home decor projects this was the only thread I ever bought.  All purpose thread has the best variety of colors.

       This is my cotton collection for quilting.  This container is supposed to be storing a knitting or crochet project, (it's called a Yarntainer by snapware) but I'm not really doing any knitting or crocheting these days, so I put these cotton thread spools in it this morning.  It's perfect, the container is round and clear making it so easy to find my thread.  I'm sure my cotton thread is happy in its cool round home.

          Look at this, 180 little spools of polyester thread for my embroidery machine that I purchased in January after I got my embroidery machine.  I keep it in this big plastic box because I have cats, but I'd like to organize it.  It would be nice to put it in clear boxes like my all purpose thread.  That would cost me a bunch of money.  I'm still looking for other ideas for storing this thread.  I'm not  even going to show you a picture of the box of prewound bobbins I bought for the embroidery machine.  There are 144 beautiful bobbins full of white polyester thread for embroidering.

 
     My serger thread collection only contains four spools of grey that I bought when I got the machine and they stay on the machine.  I never got around to buying more because I don't use my serger as much as I thought I would.