It’s only November. It’s not that cold out. It doesn’t snow here. But I’m going to do it anyway.

Go make this felt ornament tutorial. Yes, I said ornament! I love Christmas and am excited for all that we have planned here – the Christmas market is starting to go up, the street decorations are up, the stores have ornaments and decorations out, and the schools sent home a reminder that they will be selling trees as a fundraiser. We’ve never had a live tree as a family, and I’m okay with that. I love the tree that we have. I am looking forward to a lot of handmade ornaments this year because we just don’t have a lot of ornaments. We are also going to be having a cookie decorating party, maybe an ornament making party, and we are going to make lots of cookies to give to our friends.

My kids *love* Minecraft. They could play for hours, but I make them stop. Even the four year old loves it. I’ve been thinking of a pixel quilt I want to make and since all of Minecraft is pixels, it won’t be that hard to do. The only thing I need to do now is figure out my plan – mutiple blocks or one large image? If it’s multiple blocks then how many – 9, 12, what about 4 oversized blocks? I’m thinking 12 for my oldest son and 4 for the youngest son. I’m not sure I have enough solid fabric though, so that might be an issue to completing the quilt soon.

Here are some instructions to make a minecraft creeper t-shirt that you can make in four steps. Making something like this will make your kids happy while you figure out how many blocks to make for your minecraft quilt.

There are a few things that I love having when I am sewing, a few things that I am so glad were invented! The Clearly Perfect Angles sheet is one of those things and this is something I hope you get for yourself and learn how to use.

This is a clingy sheet that you cut a small rectangle out of where the feed dogs will be, and you lay it on your machine. It will stick to the machine, so it won’t move, and you can sew half square triangles without marking your fabric! See the black and green lines down the center, that is what you line your fabric up with.There are 1/4″ and 3/8″ seam guides, and you can start sewing from the moment you lay this down on your sewing machine. This is shown on my machine and it hangs over the edges a little, I just press them down and the material clings to my machine. Nothing interferes with my sewing at all.

When I read Cheryl Arkison’s post on the Sew Mama Sew Slow Sewing series, I had a moment of, “how did she get into my head?” Cheryl writes about having multiple quilts, in various stages of completion, and how she is okay with it. She is thriving in her environment! Cheryl counted up her WIPs and though I haven’t counted mine, I wouldn’t be surprised it I had a really high number. And you know what, I’m okay with it and I too am thriving. My system works for me. Head over to Sew Mama Sew to read the tips Cheryl shares for managing your pile of quilts.