These are some of the potholders that I made for my mom. There were several firsts involved with this project. First time quilting. First time making potholders with Insulbright. First time binding. Sadly, not the first time doing binding well. I was really bummed at how badly the binding turned out (these pics are all before binding) because I loved how the quilting and piecing looked. Oh well, it’s the thought that counts! 
Heather’s elephant! I loved his little ears and the curly trunk and the little button on his tail. The fabric for the body came from the dollar bin from Walmart and I think the ear and tail denim were scraps from a shirt. I smooshed his button eyes together so that if someone uses him for a pillow, the buttons won’t poke them.
Pictured here are a fluffy pillow which has a cool tattoo-esque fabric on the front and black dot minky fabric on the back. I’ve always wanted to use minky fabric in a project and was thrilled with how well it turned out. It did shed a bit so that will be something I need to take in account in the future, but I will definitely be using it again. Soooo soft! Next is the paper I stamped for the calendar desk set. I’m too impatient for stamping to become my new favorite craft, but these turned out nicely. For some reason this is the only picture I have of the pillowcase I made…apparently the happy sharks on the fabric were camera shy. This was my first pillowcase made using french seams and it was a lot harder than it sounded. The tutorial I was reading assumed that I was a neater seamstress than I really am, so it didn’t mention that I should trim after sewing the first seam. Since I didn’t do that, there was rough edges poking out of the final seam. But other than that…it looks nice. It makes me want to whip up a bunch of flannel pillowcases!
Finally, cookies! I still haven’t found my camera cord so the shots of the baking are stuck in limbo. But here are finished shots of my cookies. In the top left are peach jam thumbprints, orange-soaked chocolate chip thumbprints with a rack of snowballs underneath, next over are cinnamon cookies and chocolate dipped soldiers and the cookies on the bottom are lemon glazed shortbread.
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