even though i started quilting nearly exclusively in 1979, prior to that i was a serial crafter. each year when i unpack my ornaments, those years come wafting back to me in wonderful memories. here is a sample of what's on my tree....
oh the hours this sampling represents! felt and sequins and beads, oh my! made lots of those. the bandana ornaments were in a family circle mag eons ago. the bell and blue were kits. the cross-stitch ones came from a pattern--have made a ton of those and given many away. then there was the year in ceramics...the angel, the stocking and the 3 wise men yet to be unpacked. the pinwheels are more recent, as is the fabric star with sequins...that was a swap with the jo morton yahoo group (i made 2 of them...overachiever me)....the felt monogram mitten was just my idea using iron on alphabets. and then there are these...
as a child, my daughter was fascinated with gumball machines and i found a kit with 2...and the butterfly was a freehand idea of mine for a niece. we used to live near a yarn shop that carried a lot of these felt kits with sequins and beads. she has an advent calendar--another kit--of a tree with 24 pockets each containing a little ornament for the tree...more sequins and beads....and a nice big star for the treetop. she also has a nativity set done in crewel that came in several kits and finally got finished about 10 years ago. now that i pretty much only quilt, my ornament days are mostly past. luckily i get to revisit them every christmas...like most of you, no doubt. give me any old tree--even the cheapo fake amazon i have now--but load it with lights and my ornaments and it'll always be christmas!
What fun to revisit your crafting of the past. I do the same when I decorate my tree. We had some similar crafts in our past, but you definitely have more variety in your crafting history than I do.
ReplyDeleteThe gumball machine is especially cute. :)
I love al your ornaments. Our tree has some needlepoint, quilted and various of craft type ornaments - not many of the traditional type balls. My mother in law was a very good seamstress and made all of her children many of those sequin type ornaments and a large stuffed snowman with small animals at the base which we hang every year. WE treasure all the handmade decorations and especially the ones my son made when he was little.
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