Learning to quilt~

My two daughters each made a Crazy Eight's Quilt so I decided to try my hand at it! I love watermelons so made it in watermelon colors! It's a great pattern and since making this one have made 3 more and have a couple more in the works!
I also learned to make the rag quilts out of jeans and this paticular one out of patriotic fabric.

I've done 4 of this one as well as several out of flannel for the babies!

CHRISTMAS 2008

I am a very lucky woman! I was married for 19 years (which ended in divorce) but I had 5 wonderful children from the union. I was single for 13 years and then met the love of my life! He has 7 children so together we are blessed with 12 awesome children and each of them have a wonderful spouse. So far we have 24 grandchildren with one more to join our happy clan in December of this year.
I love to give and with the amount of kids we have, Christmas's have become a bit of a financial burden.

So I have started to make each family a gift. I started in 2005 (our 2nd Christmas together) and I made each family a Santa who was holding a sock. We put a $100 dollar bill in the sock for their Christmas gift. I didn't take pictures at the time so when I dig mine out I will post it. You'll have to wait for Christmas! lol

This is what I made them in 2008. An Advent Calendar!

Yes, I made 12 of them and it took me nearly a year to complete all 12 .... but I did it!

The kids loved them and it's such a joy to go into their homes at Christmas and see them using the calendar!