Christmas tabletopper 4-patch and rectangles

 Here is the tabletopper I made last weekend and took to a party this week...
It finished at 12 x 20

 I started with jelly roll strips and made into twosies and then 4 patches..
The rectangles are cut at 4½".....

 I sewed right sides together and with batting and stitched around the edge leaving an opening for turning.

 Here is the other side...

 close up view of stitching with variegated thread....

 On my Bernina I used #643 stitch 4 length and 5.5 width...

 Then I wrote words.......hope..........peace.............love............joy...........

Every year we have a gift exchange and play the game where we draw numbers and #1 goes first and chooses a present.  Then #2 can either "take" that present or choose another wrapped present and on down the line and back to #1 again to keep their present or "take" another.  Does anyone else do these kind of games at their parties?  Every year I usually try to make something in addition to taking some kind of decoration for these parties.

I had a lot of new people commenting on my last post and thank you.  I will check your blogs, if you have one, and get back to you soon.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Linking to finish it up Friday and Link a Finish Friday
And Linky Party Tuesday

Hexie tree mug rug

This might be larger than the usual mug rug...

It is 9½ x 13...

 It started with some hexies I had been making with scraps of Kate Spain 12 days of Christmas...

 For the background I decided to use fabric from Ho Ho Ho Jolly Christmas by Camelot Cottons with
snowflakes as the top fabric and presents and trees at the bottom....
I sewed the hexies onto the fabric with batting behind.....

I used some squares for the side from the Kate Spain fabric....
And this photo is before I quilted the layers together....
I decided to not use a binding and just sew right sides together and turn and..
then topstitch around the edge...

Here is the back from the Ho Ho Ho fabric....
Another fun project to do.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

I will be for the first time to Kelly at My Quilt Infatuation Needle & Thread Thursday.
Also will link with finish it up Friday and Link a Finish Friday.

And also linking to Connie at Linky Party Tuesday.