Ho Ho Ho Blog Hop

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Oh Boy!

 

It's my day on the fantastic
Ho Ho Ho Blog Hop journey.

 I'm so happy you've stopped by.

Madame Samm manages all the fun hops, so I want to give a big shout out to her
for all the great work she puts into the hops.

Carol @ Just Let Me Quilt is our wonderful cheerleader and managed all the participants.
Thank you Carol for all that hard work!!

Before I get into my project, this is also my birthday. Carol was so kind in allowing me to post on my birthday. Thank you Carol!!

Happy Birthday to me.

I'm proud to say I'm 58 years old today!!!!

 

Special note:

(If you're looking for Mug Rug Thursday, you're in the right place and the correct day except I've postponed it until tomorrow because of the HOP. So please come back tomorrow for that!!)

 

Make sure to "hop" over to the following fantastic bloggers to see what they've made for this

Ho Ho Ho  Hop!!

 

Vroomans Quilts

Abyquilt

MacDonald's Patch

Life and Everything Around It

Hill Valley Quilter

Traveling Quilter

Quilting Lines

The Reluctant Quilter

Pig Tales and Quilts

Teatime Creations

Ravelly 1  = You are here!!

Now, to the HOP!!

I made a Santa wall hanging.

Here's the process from beginning to end.

These are a few of the fabrics I considered for the project.

Using a Pigma Pen (permanent ink) I drew the makings for the face. I know it looks a bit strange but the beard and mustache will do the rest.

I found a great off white with grey markings in my stash for the facial hair.

I forgot to mention that I'm using Heat N Bond Lite as an adhesive. At this point Santa is resting on a non-stick pressing sheet which is made especially for this type of adhesive.

For a background I decided to go with 2 1/2 inch green squares which I had in my stash for an exchange years ago. As some of you may remember, I've been trying to use up said squares for quite some time but they keep multiplying on me.

Here I'm just looking at placement/centering.

Now I've stitched around Santa's parts and sewn the border on and will sandwich everything to machine quilt it.

For a hanging method, I saw this on another blog but can't remember which one. I did want to give credit to that someone who came up with this ingenious idea. Using any size square you desire, press in half.

Place each folded square raw edges toward the outer edges, pin then stitch on binding.

 

In this photo you can see how it looks. This type of sleeve is easy to use when hanging something small.

This Santa wall hanging measures 12 inches square.

It is my give away for this hop.......

 

Plus this wonderful Christmas FQ.

 

All that is needed to participate in my give away is to leave a comment on this post

 to have a chance.

If you are a non-reply, please, also leave a way for me to get in touch with you. This also applies to the Open ID & Yahoo commenter.  

International viewers are welcome. I ship all over the globe.

 

I'll announce the winner at the end of our

fantastic HOP!!