Merry Christmas!

It's a cool, rainy day here in Southern Arizona, and I'm loving it! Such a nice Christmas Eve! I've got a slow cooker filled with Chili Rellenos soup cooking for dinner. Perfect soup weather! I love soup, I love cool weather, I love rain, yes, it's a great day!

Tonight our visitors will be two of the granddogs, which we'll have for a week. Tomorrow I'm planning a small holiday meal with DH, my MIL, and my sister. Our big family Christmas won't be until January 3rd. 

I'm down to the last Christmas project, and I'm almost done that!

My last holiday project is some bibs made out of hand towels. This style bib is hands down my favorite. My mom made them for my kids, and I've made them for the grandkids. The only thing left to do is to sew the shapes down, they are already fused, and the ribbing on the collar is done. Adding the ribbing to the collar is the only fiddly bit to these, since I take the easy way out on applique and use fusible with a sewn zigzag stitch. I'll go back to sewing once I finish writing this post. 

I do have another finish for the year, it's number 15. This was made from leftover blocks from a larger quilt. I used the narrower border stripe in the border of this quilt, where I had used the wider border stripe on the other quilt. 

I am about 1/3 of the way done quilting another queen/king quilt. This one stays at my house, so it's kind of amazing it is actually being quilted! Stuff for us is usually the last done. There's a chance I could finish that quilt in 2025, but we've got a few things coming up, and I'm not sure how the dogs will handle me sewing, so we'll see. Even if I have to write 15 finishes as my total for 2025, it's more than I thought I'd get done, between so many of the quilts being huge, and traveling four months this year. 

I'm still working on my 2026 goals. I'm not certain how much traveling we'll be doing next year, we do have one long trip planned, but a couple others are possibilities. I know how much I get done is largely dependent on how much I'm actually home, and since that's a bit of an unknown, I'm going to try to be kind to myself and not overdo it on the goals. 

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas, and may your quilty dreams come true 😃