Saturday, January 9, 2010

Work in Progress:

I purchased my lovely wool felt today and cut out my tree. It was very scary to actually cut it out though because it was expensive stuff!! I didn't want to mess up. BUT... it turned out ok. :) And the color is much nicer than the pictures show. I like it WAY more in person.

I still have to put numbers below each row... so all the squares will have more space between them making the huge empty space at the bottom not so huge and empty. Right now it looks a little top heavy. But it'll all be even in the end. My squares are finished! Those boogers took forever. All that stitching. Now I'll put interfacing on the back of the squares, stitch them on the tree, stitch the numbers under the squares, then sew the tree pieces together and I'm done! Oh, and make a star for the top. And maybe put our name on it somewhere. Oh yeah, and make some little snowflakes on the tree. The end still seems so far away. I'm not tired of it yet though... so that's good. It's just a fun little project. Oh wait, I mean it's a fun BIG project. :)




4 comments:

Kathy Haynie said...

Hillary, the tree looks GREAT! Wow!

Fun to see how you're trying out different looks for the blog.

JuliaKoponick said...

It looks great!! You have obviously put a lot of thought and energy into this. It will be a treasure for years to come!!

Katie Lewis said...

I am SO impressed. The colors and pictures and just everything about your advent calendar is so beautiful and classy. I think you will love this for years and years and years to come. Way to go!

Oh, and I love your new blog background. It's lovely. :) And so easy to read. Great job!

Melissa said...

The tree looks SO great Hillary! I am way impressed. Your children will love that you made this way-back-when. I'm sure it will be an heirloom!