My only Christmas sewing

I only sewed one gift this year and it was for my adorable grand daughter:

  My daughter in law, Faith, snapped this pic of her when she had her "pretties" on!  She likes to take my ear rings off and "wear" them herself. 

I made her a pillow to cuddle with:

The fabrics and doll panel are all from Riley Blake designs.  I used their Lolly Dolly pillow tutorial with a few modifications.  One change was that I put a zipper in the back so the cover could be used on a pillow form rather than stuffed.  

Zippers are so easy to put in a pillow and being able to take the cover off to wash it is a good thing!

Christmas morning was a frenzy this year and I barely had time to snap any pictures.  Luckily my daughter did get one of Heidi with the pillow.

Good thing I reinforced the legs and arms with extra stitching!  I knew they'd get a workout.

I'm currently re-organizing my studio and purging my fabric.  Its taking so long cuz every piece of fabric has a story attached and its hard to let go....at least for me.  Time to get back to it.

10 minute gift

My co-worker Diana showed us how to make these easy key fobs that take about 10 minutes - no joke! Nice idea for a quick gift this Christmas season. 

 You need cotton webbing and ribbon (Pink Chalk carries really fun ribbons) like these:

Mine were cut 10 inches in length.  I sewed the ribbon onto the webbing along each side.

Fold in half and stuff the unfinished ends into some key fob hardware - I got a bunch on Amazon.  

I used pliers to squeeze the hardware shut.  I suggest covering it with some fabric or you'll get a little dent like I did.  See it below?  I think they make specialty pliers for this very purpose but I didn't have any.  

That's it!   Don't ya just love fast gifts?!!!