My 2008 Christmas List of Projects

On my Homespun Holidays list we've started "The 52 Weeks of Christmas". This is going to be a weekly reminder and countdown for those of us who love to create gifts. Hopefully, we'll all get a good start on our lists for next Christmas and actually have some gifts made before we run out of time. I thought I'd share my "To Make" list with all of you.

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Now, here's my list of projects:


CROSS STITCH:
~ Finish stitching the last of the ornaments I was making for this year and then make them into little pillow ornaments (Plum Pudding Needleart design)
~ Finish stitching Christmas Tea for us
~ Stitch 2 additional sets of Christmas Tea for gifts (will be a tea cozy and a cookie tin cover)
~ Finish the PS 12 Days of Christmas ornaments (have 2-1/2 made)
~ Finish quilting the cross stitched star table topper I started several years ago



QUILTING:
~ Make a quilt for our daughter (already have the fabric)
~ Make a quilt for my stepdaughter (already have the fabric)
~ Make a few quilted items for friends. I'm thinking table runners, but might add in small wall hangings and/or placemats. I'd like to get 4 made, but I'd be happy with 2.
~ Finish quilting the Christmas tree cloth I started years ago. One section is completely done, and the other section about 3/4s finished. Then they can be sewn together and a binding added to the outside.


WOOLENS:
~ Make some pillows in different sizes using the plaid or checked wools for the pillow with solid colors for the applique. I want to do some with different Christmas designs (snowflakes, mittens, etc.). I also want to make some of these for the fall with autumn designs.
~ Make a penny rug for a table topper using a cute snowman pattern. (I also have two for autumn, which I hope to make, too.)


KNITTING:
~ Finish husband's replacement Christmas stocking (I've overstuffed his throughout the years with jars of various nuts, lol, and now there are lots of holes where I didn't do a very good job of changing colors).


SCRAPBOOKS:
~ 1 for husband
~ 3 for friends


RECIPE/SCRAP BOOKS:
~ 1 for daughter
~ 1 for stepdaughter


SEWING:
~ Some small pine needle sachet pillows
~ Some stuffed Christmas ornaments using homespun fabric (I'll use cookie cutters as the patterns)
~ Make fabric wreaths using the Dresden Plate quilting pattern (these are in Book 2 of the Leisure Arts Spirit of Christmas books and are so pretty)
~ Make a Christmas tree cloth using the same pattern and fabrics
~ Make some yo-yo wreath ornaments (cute, also from the same book... you make 10 yo-yos that are lightly stuffed, and then stitch them together through their middles and tied into a puffy circle)