About a year ago, when my Grandma Orris came to visit, we went shopping at quilt stores and found a very cute kit to make advent calendars. My grandma bought enough for our whole family (5) and my mom and I set out to make them. Most of the work was done in our own little sweatshop last summer when Joseph was in Costa Rica for a week and a half. We had to trace each applique piece 5 times (since we were making five of these), cut out each traced piece, iron each piece to the fabric, cut each piece out again, iron each piece on again, stitch around the edges, press the edges of the pocket under, sew the pocket to its background, and then sew each of the backgrounds together. Then it was quilted and finished. Phew!!! It was an incredible undertaking and extremely rewarding. I must say, they are beautiful and a fun quilt made from the contributions of three generations of quilters. I am pretty proud of this accomplishment. They are our Christmas gifts to the family this year but we gave them to everyone on Thanksgiving so that they can enjoy them this season.
I have very fond memories of the advent calendar we had growing up that my Aunt Elna made for us and hope that my children will have many fond memories of this one in the years to come.
4 comments:
That's really cute! I need a good advent calendar. Do you have treats in the pockets or anything like that?
Yes, we put treats in the pockets and the boys get to take the treat out each day. We just got a bag of Christmas treats (peanut butter cups, mini candy bars, etc.) from the grocery store to put in the pockets.
Those quilts are amazing. I'm sure your family loves them. And congrats on the new baby. A girl after two crazy (mine, not yours) boys is the way to go. They are so much fun!
I love this! I think I need one. I remember having so much fun with our family's advent calendar when I was a kid (was that from Aunt Elna, too?)
It's beautiful.
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