Happy New Year everybody! I hope you all had wonderful holidays. I took a little break from cross stitch to crochet a bunch of hats and scarves for gifts. I also managed to finally finish DH's quilt and framed MIL and SIL's gifts myself.
Noah checking out daddy's quilt. I finished it while DH was at work and surprised him with it on Christmas.
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I'm really happy with how this turned out for my first quilt. But next time I'll pick the fabrics myself.
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SIL's Christmas gift. I was hoping to find a better frame but had to settle for a plain one.
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I love this frame and knew it would be perfect as soon as I saw it.
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Close up of frame
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My first finish of 2009!
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I finally got back to work on Noah's stocking and , thanks to the Facebook SAL group, I FINALLY finished the never ending red of Santa's shirt!!! Santa also now has eyes, train tracks over his head and the beginnings of a train underneath him.