Christmas Hot Pads

This month Vicki had Christmas on her radar.  She knitted some holiday hot pads.

Monster Windows

This month Kelly got a jump on Halloween.   After seeing this on Pinterest she decided to do her own version.

 Kelly purchased black poster board at the Dollar Tree.  She had chalk and tissue paper on hand so she went to work creating some fun monsters.

The whole craft was less than $4.00 - love it!  So simple, so fun.

Everyday Cards

This month Allison made some cards that work for any occasion.  She took photos she had of her parents garden and used them as covers for the cards.

Happy Coffee Day!

I was recently informed that last Sunday was National Coffee Day so I decided that it definitely needed to be celebrated!  My friend Katie and I threw a party for the dancers to basically get together to drink coffee and eat sugar, I am sure our director would approve : )  We decided that if we were going to do it. we might as well craft it up a bit!  I think we almost had more fun getting everything ready: baking cupcakes, making a banner, making frozen sugar spoons, and decorating the labels.  The decorations were a hit and everyone left thoroughly caffeinated and happy : )

Coffee Filter Flower Banner

Close-up! We wrote coffee quotes on each filter

Our Full Table Set up (Sign was made by Gail!)

Close up of the Coffee Cupcakes with Chocolate Handles and Our Stir Sticks!

First Birthday Shirts

 This month Erin and Gail took a request from a friend to make 1st birthday party shirts for her son.  The cute sock monkey on the brown shirt was a full iron-on purchased at Hobby Lobby.  The white shirt we designed with the silhouette to match the invites and used heat transfer in red, brown, cream, and black to cut out and heat press.  We learned a few new tricks in creating the shirts so that's always helpful!

Quilted Place Mats

 
I quilted these place mats using a disappearing 9 patch that has been window paned.  I followed this video.  By all means, they are not perfect, but I'm really happy that I learned a lot about my sewing machine as I completely made this by machine; I even machine quilted them.

They were VERY easy to make since most of the squares came straight from this charm pack.  FYI - a charm pack is precut squares of fabric.  I did have to add a few squares of a different fabric and the  black to make these this size and to have 5 of them for our family.  I didn't take a picture of the back, but I used a mostly black fabric with dancing skeletons for the baking.  Now, I am looking for an awesome Christmas themed charm pack!