"Vintage Christmas placemats

I absolutely love this book by Lori Holt.  I haven't made the cover quilt, but it's on my list!  Lori often has cute projects besides her quilts, in her books.  I make a Christmas placemat for each of my children, their spouses and their children.  They are pretty time consuming, so I make them for one family every year.

I made the figure skate for my grand daughter Reagan, who is 10 years old.  It reminds me of all the figure skating lessons I took at the indoor rink a few blocks from our house when I was Reagan's age.  I would have loved a pair of pink figure skates!  I embroidered a large "R" in the center.  Next time I'll have to do it in a different color, because it barely shows up.

This is a ginger bread girl that I made for Taylor.  I used vintage rick rack and I love all the accents of pink!

This placemat is a dolly, which I made for Riley.  Last I heard, Riley loved playing with dolls.

I made Rudolph the red nosed reindeer for Paisley.  I used glittery fabric, because Rudolph is a rock star like Paisley.

I made the candy canes for Kim, because she's such an excellent baker.

I made Santa for our son Jordan, because well....he's the Santa of the household.

I ran out of time to make myself one last year, so I finally finished it this year!  I like Reagan's better though.  I think the silver blade looks better than the pink, and I fussy cut her pocket, whereas I didn't think to do that on mine.

Here they are wrapped up and ready to drop in the mail.

To all my American friends, I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with your families ❤️

To everyone else, especially my fellow Canadians, enjoy your weekend also and stay safe :)

Christmas Decor

There's a little space that my vintage ladder fits in perfectly!

I'm displaying Lori Holt's

 "Have yourself a quilty Little Christmas" quilt.

That was such a fun quilt to make!

Lori posted tutorials for the blocks one at a time, on Instagram.

When all the blocks were made, 

they all came together like a puzzle.

This full size nutcracker stands guard at the front door.

In the hall, we have a Norwegian Santa.

 I've been collecting bottle brush trees and 

vintage Christmas houses.

I really love vintage decor, it reminds me of the decorations my mother put up when I was a little girl.

 This is my little Santa corner.

I didn't put up our Christmas tree this year, so I decorated our winter wonderland trees.

Those boxes are gifts from one of our daughters :)

The stockings are handmade in Czechoslovakia, they belonged to my brother and I many years ago!

This little cutie is our grand daughter Maisie.

Her dad is dressed up as Santa, 

that's why she looks so relaxed and trusting.

I love this shot of Santa and our son Sean when he was 5 years old.

Santa told him to take a nap and snap, we have a memory!

Love, love, love this photo of our grandchildren!!!

Lucy sees something horrific in the book, or maybe she's terrorized just because she's sitting in Santa's lap!

It's so funny how the other children are 

completely ignoring Lucy's terror, 

looking very angelic and peaceful.

My mother in law purchased this nativity when she visited Israel.

They are hand carved out of olive wood.

I really love Jim Shore's creations, especially this nativity.

Jim carves and paints quilted motifs on all of his work.

You can't live in Arizona without some cactus decor!

Next year I'll adorn them with some little lights.

I patterned my hot chocolate stand from Pottery Barn.

I'm going to give it a Valentine theme after Christmas.

Thanks so much for following along :)

A Very Vintage Christmas Sew Along

I absolutely love this book!!!

It's like all of my childhood memories came alive!

Yes, I'm vintage, and all the blocks in this quilt remind me of my childhood :)

Here's my little dolly, isn't she lovely?

She was so easy to put together.

I couldn't decide which photo to use!

I sewed little Dolly in a 12" size and turned her into a placemat for one of my grand daughters :)

I embroidered a little face on her and she came alive :)

I just love my new dolly placemat!