DONE

All 3 robes are completed. Finished. In ONE day.

While I sewed today, Rob and his mom did some baking, hung out with the kids, cleaned and even did laundry. Have I mentioned that I LOVE my mother-in-law? It was so awesome to have the day to get the robes done. I am totally going back and crossing them off my to-do list from months ago. LOL

Tomorrow? Some more baking ... just some cut out sugar cookies for the boys and their cousins to decorate on Christmas day for fun. Maybe some thumbprint cookies just because I've never made them before and I have a ton of seedless raspberry jelly.

And I have to dig out my Christmas memories book and get started. Church at 4, Penne with Vodka Sauce after that (with salad and garlic toast), and then opening gifts, as Rob's family has always done. (We were always at my grandparents', so it was opening gifts at one set of grandparents' Christmas Eve and more on Christmas Day at the other grandparents' home. They lived less than a mile apart but the grandmothers couldn't manage to get along even one day a year. *Sigh*.)

Pictures tomorrow of the other 2 completed robes (oh, how good it feels to type that!). My neck has a crick in it and I am tired but it was well worth it. The boys are all so excited to have warm, cozy fleece robes. Nice.

Merry Christmas, indeed.

One down ...

Two to go.

Crossing things off that list

My list is shrinking on one end but growing on the other. I got the recipes done and now am waiting for a sturdy 3 ring binder and some plastic sleeves to put it all together. Hoping for those for Christmas, maybe from the kids. Something pretty inexpensive, easy to find, and that will totally make me happy. Perfect. Now for the next thing: what is it about me that makes me jump from one thing to another without a break? Nancy's sweatshirt is almost done. The top photo is the quilting pattern. It is self-adhesive on the edges and you place it where you want it and stitch over the lines. The photo is when all lines had been stitched. The bottom photo is after I started tearing the paper off. It leaves all these little paper scraps but they mostly come out as you cut into the sweatshirt fabric to reveal the other fabric behind. I'll finish the cutting this week, I think, and get it in the washer soon. It looks good, though, and I hope she loves it.

And I got some cool stuff off Freecycle this week that I think I can turn into cool stuff for my nieces. Will see how far I get on that. I also did start on the teacher gifts and my prototypes worked great so I will update later with photos and a how-to on those.

Go me.