Happy Thanksgiving! Now to Get Ready for Christmas!

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving today.  I did; spent the afternoon and evening with my son, DIL, and her family, and my Grandson.  We all ate way too much great turkey and dressing, and candied sweet potatoes, and of course, green been casserole, to say nothing of the three pies that were delicious and devoured!  I'm home now and really tired, so this will be short and sweet.  Just so you know, I'm sleeping in tomorrow, as late as I want to!  Then I'll get up and get started on Christmas!

Always in past years, on November 1, I've closed down the sewing machine and any part of quilting so I could start decorating for Christmas.  If you've been reading my blog for a few years, you know I just go crazy over Christmas!  Not this year----yet!  I just haven't felt like digging in; having a hard time getting into the Spirit of Christmas this year for some reason.  But that's got to change tomorrow! 

A few days ago I came across a little Christmas 4-patch Stack and Whack quilt that I had started two years ago, at quilt retreat as I recall.  The top was all together, and the stored away.  Then at Christmas, I hung it on the quilt rack in the back bedroom even though it was not even sandwiched for quilting, and then stored it away again. 

Tonight it is finished and hanging in the back bedroom again!    It's too dark to get a decent picture in there, but here's a couple of it in the sunroom at the moment I finished it this morning.

Too close to show the outside blocks, but you get the idea.

Double Click to enlarge to read the note.  

This fabric scrap will be stitched onto the back, but when my son came this morning,  I decided to get him to put the quilt on the rod so I'd have at least one thing for Christmas up!  I'll whip the fabric scrap and note on the back after Christmas so someday someone can see where the different blocks all came from.  I didn't do very well on the quilting, but I did try to free motion around the paisley patterns created by the 4-patch Stack and Whack.  It looks good enough to suit me, but it certainly could have been better done.    Also, it is too long for the place where it is hanging.  Remember I started it two years ago, with no thought of where I'd hang it, so the bottom row hangs down behind the headboard of the bed.  BUT----at least there's one Christmas thing out in my home on Thanksgiving night!

I won't be dragging out all the things I usually do, but by the end of next week, at my home, it should be beginning to look a lot like Christmas!  Also you know I usually host four or five big Christmas parties in December; well, that won't be happening this year.  Maybe one, just maybe, for some really close friends, maybe not.  We'll see.  If I had to give an answer tonight, it would be definitely NOT!

Still --- Santa will be making an appearance around the house soon!

---"Love"