A Front Finish...

My goal from last week

is to not start anything new

Until I finish some of these

projects I have in piles, baskets and bags!

Today I have one finish to show.

Well, it's a "front" finish, 

but it counts!

Santa is on Vacation!

I love this Jolly Ole' Elf!

His legs are so chunky and cute with the flip flops.

One thing I do differently from the pattern when making these

stockings, is I use batting scraps to stuff the pieces

instead of polyfil. 

I started doing this with the very first stocking

because I didn't have any polyfil, but have

LOTS of batting scraps.

I place the piece of felt on the batting to use as a pattern

and cut the batting,

taking a little extra off

so the batting almost comes to the edge of the

felt piece.

The little boats and palm trees are so cute.

An adjustment I made with this pattern

is to not satin stitch all of the holly leaves on the blanket.

(Stitching is not my forte!)

I cut out little holly leaves from the green felt and stitched them in place.

This was MUCH easier and faster for me!

I now have two stocking fronts for which to make the 

quilted stocking bodies. These are on my list to finish before something

new is started!

Please visit Patchwork Times to see what others are creating.

Happy quilting!!