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Getting ready for Christmas 2021
By: gmatoy Date: March 27, 2021, 1:02 pm
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I haven't been on here for way too long! Quarantine has meant
the DH has been using the computer more and, since a friend gave
me a tablet, I have been on the tablet. I don't actually
remember my log-in info, so can not access from the tablet.
Still, I am here now and am wondering if anyone is gearing up
for Christmas yet. As a sewer, I have to start early or it
doesn't get done. I am planning a huge cut out of lounging pants
(AKA PJ bottoms) this week. I thought I would make myself
accountable by putting it on here.
I also plan to start cutting out this year's ornaments, just as
soon as I decide between the four choices.
So, what are you doing?
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2021
By: STiG Date: March 27, 2021, 2:38 pm
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I started out finishing projects that were to go to people last
year, that I haven't seen due to the pandemic. I finished my
MIL's afghan before her birthday, that was part of her Christmas
gift. :-\
I have the yarn for an afghan to make for SIL for his birthday
in July. And I have wool to make a sweater for my nephew for
Christmas. I want to make a knitted nativity scene to be a
silent auction item for my church, if we're able to have our
roast beef dinner in November. I'm going to start on the first
one this week. I'm currently making 'comfort hearts' for some
area seniors. I think I posted a couple of patterns a while
ago.
Depending on how these projects go, I have a pattern to make a
little bear in scrubs and a mask. I'd love to make one for each
of Dad's caregivers but it may be too ambitious a project.
And finally, I'm hoping to use up all the little odds and sods
in my stash, making lap afghans for a group that makes sure
seniors have a gift at Christmas, if they have no family. I
found a really cool crochet pattern, called 'bricks', which uses
a main colour that frames the secondary colour in little
windows. I did one of the blocks for my MIL's afghan and shaded
the secondary colour from light to dark (ombre? Is that the
word?) and it turned out beautifully so I'm going to do it
again, in larger blocks so there is less combining of blocks. I
think 4-6 good sized blocks will make a nice lap afghan.
My weekend project, though? To get our taxes done. :P
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2021
By: Amara Date: March 27, 2021, 9:50 pm
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Yay, the first Christmas thread of the year!
I just moved into my own home (first home!) less than a week
ago. And I am still unpacking though I am nearly done. Extensive
renovations took two and a half months and today they finally
finished. While opening boxes and figuring out where to put
things I realized I want to change the look of Christmas for me.
For three years I had a lipstick red tree with red lights and
red ornaments. Gorgeous! But my new home is mostly white with
emerald and other greens and I have come to realize that as fun
as the red was I want to go more low-key. So I hauled my tree
and almost all the ornaments to my favorite thrift store that
finally opened this week.
I plan to make my decor white and silver with maybe some touches
of gold and green. Mercury glass will be a feature as will in
all likelihood a white tree to be purchased later and decorated
with white and silver ornaments. While at the thrift store I
looked at a nice purse of the sort my sister likes but last year
I didn't participate in any gift giving, even with close
friends, and I rather liked that. i want to decorate as I love
that--and I am especially excited because for the first time I
can put a nail in the front door and hang a wreath--and I think
that and the music will be "Christmas" for me, not gifts. I can
scarcely wait for the holiday season which begins with autumn,
and I think I might begin that around mid September. i usually
make myself wait until October 1 but having missed the last two
years due to, first, living in small interim housing and, last
year, COVID, I want to really have it this year. Stretch it out,
enjoy it, maximize it!
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2021
By: peony Date: April 16, 2021, 8:14 pm
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I am planning on sewing my own tree skirt for this coming
Christmas, since I can't find a ready-made one that pleases me.
I have a modest stash of Christmas-themed fabrics. I'll choose
the one my offspring likes the most, and use that. I may trim it
with lace...or not.
#Post#: 65691--------------------------------------------------
Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2021
By: oogyda Date: April 17, 2021, 6:54 pm
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[quote author=peony link=topic=2018.msg65667#msg65667
date=1618622052]
I am planning on sewing my own tree skirt for this coming
Christmas, since I can't find a ready-made one that pleases me.
I have a modest stash of Christmas-themed fabrics. I'll choose
the one my offspring likes the most, and use that. I may trim it
with lace...or not.
[/quote]
A few years ago, a bunch if were decorating our new office for
Christmas. We had chosen a color scheme, but couldn't find a
tree skirt that would work. We did find a round tablecloth,
though. I took it home and cut a slit up one side and a circle
out of the middle. Then I finished the edges and we put it
around the tree the next day.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2021
By: peony Date: April 18, 2021, 1:02 pm
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[quote author=oogyda link=topic=2018.msg65691#msg65691
date=1618703680]
[quote author=peony link=topic=2018.msg65667#msg65667
date=1618622052]
I am planning on sewing my own tree skirt for this coming
Christmas, since I can't find a ready-made one that pleases me.
I have a modest stash of Christmas-themed fabrics. I'll choose
the one my offspring likes the most, and use that. I may trim it
with lace...or not.
[/quote]
A few years ago, a bunch if were decorating our new office for
Christmas. We had chosen a color scheme, but couldn't find a
tree skirt that would work. We did find a round tablecloth,
though. I took it home and cut a slit up one side and a circle
out of the middle. Then I finished the edges and we put it
around the tree the next day.
[/quote]
This sounds perfect! Thanks for posting that. I'll start looking
at round tableclothes.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2021
By: Amara Date: April 19, 2021, 12:17 pm
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I find my thoughts drifting to the holidays on occasion as they
tend to do starting around this time. Right now I am debating
trees. For the past three or four years I have had a lipstick
red six-foot tree plus two tabletop trees (12 inches and 18
inches) in flocked green and one small (approximately 8-inch)
gold tree. However, having moving into my own home which I have
decorated in white and greens I am inclined toward more natural
decorations. I gave away the red tree and its decorations to my
favorite high-end thrift store.
And while I am looking at white, flocked and even a
champagne-colored tree I am also thinking of not getting a floor
one at all. Not because I don't love them but because I am not
giving gifts any more. No one I know needs or really wants
anything. (At most I might make some flavored oils, butters,
vinegars and salts but we'll see how that goes as the holiday
season gets closer.) So without gifts the large tree seems . . .
unnecessary.
Still, there's the pretty lights and all that, which I love, but
I am weighing that against storing it for ten months of the
year, then setting it up. (And the concern that if I get a white
tree it might turn yellowish-brownish, which is, apparently, a
thing with white trees.) So I will be spending time over the
next few months thinking seriously about whether a tree will be
central to my decorating or shall I let that go.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2021
By: Amara Date: October 10, 2021, 10:08 pm
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I thought now would be a good time to haul this old thread out
again. I am curious about what gmatoy, STiG and peony have done.
Are you pretty well along with your individual projects? And,
oogyda, how did that tablecloth-as-skirt work out for you?
I put up all my autumn decorations on September 22, the first
day of fall. We were extremely fortunate, in southern California
this year, to have relatively cool weather so I had great fun
with the dozen or so pumpkins, autumn leaf garlands and a few
other items plus three mini white pumpkins from TJ's. I do have
a wreath but haven't gotten it up yet. Since I leave my autumn
decorations up until Friday afternoon of Thanksgiving weekend, I
feel I still have time; just need to buy a pretty
seasonally-colored ribbon to hang it.
Earlier in the year I had thought about buying a six-foot white
tree. I'd still love it but am holding off because money is
tight. (Ah, new owner's costs.) I still may do it but one thing
I am concerned about is something that hadn't yet happened when
originally posted. I have cats again. I had three for a long
time; one died about four years ago at age 15. One died over at
age 18+ over last Thanksgiving weekend, and the last one,
nineteen years of age, passed about the beginning of March 21. I
waited until I was settled into the house before I went out to a
shelter and got three of them. Alas, younger (aged 2 years, 1
year, and 4 months) cats are destructive in their determination
to have fun! I have two lamps to repair and decorations hurled
to the floor and chewed on. It is making me crazy. It has gotten
slightly--I mean really slightly--better but some things are
just going to wait. So perhaps not having a six-foot tree is
best. I can see at least one of them, more likely two, going for
it.
And I haven't started any food gifts yet. Butter is quick and
always appreciated; I can do it ahead of time and freeze it. And
it doesn't require any packaging other than plastic wrap so,
yes, that's a strong possibility.
How is everyone else doing?
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2021
By: oogyda Date: October 11, 2021, 6:35 am
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The tablecloth as a tree skirt worked great! Last I knew (about
4-5 years ago) they were still using it. We've moved, and I
haven't had opportunity to go back to the area at Christmastime.
#Post#: 70747--------------------------------------------------
Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2021
By: Wanaca Date: October 11, 2021, 7:55 am
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We've used a tablecloth for a tree skirt for several years, and
it works great! We always get a real tree (drops needles) and
we have 8 cats. So I bought a large, round, heavy-duty vinyl
tablecloth. It looks great, and it's super easy to keep clean.
Since it's heavier, it tends to stay put. This is the one we
have:
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