Lori Holt Vintage Christmas placemats

I have been making lots of placemats using 12" blocks 

from Lori Holt's Vintage Christmas book.

My Farm Girl Chick quilt group had a Christmas party, placemat exchange last week.

We each made 2 placemats to exchange, and did we ever have fun!!

I made HIS and HERS snowmen :)

I used Cotton and Steel fabric on the back.

It was difficult to part with, as I was hording it...but I bought it for this reason, so I cut into it :)

Nancy, pictured below in her Christmas leggings,

 is the Mama Hen of our Farm Girl Chick group.

She always makes everything so much fun!!!

She got some full page Christmas images 

and cut them in half in a puzzle piece.

We all reached into the bag and pulled out our puzzle piece, and looked for the fellow chick who had the matching piece.

Nancy and Diane were matches :)

Nancy is holding the placemats that Diane made and gifted to her.

Diane is holding the placemats that Nancy made and gifted to her.

Terry and Cindy

Bonnie, Cindy and Susan

Kristie and Pam

Shauna and Jeannie

Brenda and Shirley

Guess whose puzzle piece I matched with?

That's right, my bestie Nedra.

We were so thrilled to exchange with each other :)

Aren't all the placemats beautiful?

We have so much fun at our group, 

these women are blessings to me :)

Vintage Retro, "Sweet Life" WIP

I made a table topper from Camille Roskelley's "Sweet Life" pattern, you can read about it here. 

The pattern can be found in Camille's book, "Simply Retro".

She gave her readers a tip:  "Sew together the triangles you trimmed from the Flying Geese to make half square triangles.  Sew these in rows to make a throw pillow top or a small quilt."

I don't know why I never thought of that before!

I only made 4 blocks for my table topper, but......

I was able to make this cute chevron place mat.

There were still half square triangles left, so I made some mug rugs.

I still have to quilt everything at an undisclosed and unknown date, but I will definately show you the finished projects!