2017 was the 40th anniversary of our family ornament tradition. It was also the year that our sister Jane who started the tradition died. So the ornament had to be special. The beehive was especially for Jane as bees were her trademark. I know she would have loved these! I found a Sizzix die to make cutting the felt so much easier. Carol and I each had to make trips to our local Joann's store to get enough buttons.
2017 Beehives
The 2018 ornaments were stars made from squares of fabric, folded into triangles and secured with a button. We made 51 for the family and Carol made several more for friends.
2018 Fabric Stars
2020 Kelly painted plastic sunglasses to look like snowmen. It was a pun on 20/20 vision. However by the end of the year I almost wished we had done some sort of toilet paper roll to commemorate the shortages during COVID.
2021 Jane, niece Jill and I made these at Jill’s home in Iowa. They are shakers with clear window sheet between cut out star shapes in silver and blue.
2022 - for many years Carol wanted to do apples for the German tradition of decorating trees with apples representing Adam and Eve. Finally came up with an idea in 2022. These were felt stuffed with a little polyfil and decorate with a strip of flannel and a button.
2023 - while visiting Jill we saw some sled kits in a quilt store and used that idea to design our own. The stitching was done on perforated paper then glued to the sleigh.
2024 - an idea from Pinterest. We didn’t have enough old Christmas sheet music so I copied some Stampin Up paper on cream card stock to look old. Those were decoupaged on wooden circles then decorated with plastic holly leaves and a bow. We did this while Carol was in Illinois for the Phish Phry.
2025 - we used kits to make redwork ornaments. These were stitched on a silky white fabric, backed with red felt and stuffed with polyfil.
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