Early Thanksgiving and lots of crafting progress.

Hubby and I visited our daughter and her family last weekend. We celebrated an early Thanksgiving with them and her husband's parents. It was wonderful to see our granddaughter after several weeks apart. She is learning to do so many things. What a treat!

I made tasty Praline Pumpkin Bars for dessert as they would travel well.

I have been spending a lot of time stitching "Waiting for Santa". I have finished the dog, the boy's hand and have added some of the backstitching on the boy's legs.

 The dog gave me fits as the kit has provided the same color floss for two different symbols. Obviously not correct. Thankfully I realized there was a problem after only a few stitches. The dog is really cute though. 

You may recall that I had trouble with the provided floss for the boy's face. It turns out that neither color was the close to the stated DMC floss, so I had to go back to my floss stash and figure out what color floss I could use to change one of the symbols. This is a very frustrating kit. I e-mailed the Janlynn customer service over a week ago and I haven't even gotten a reply. I will definitely hestitate to buy another kit from that company.

I am hoping to finish the two pages that make up the bottom half of the stocking by the end of the month. There is a little more rug, some gifts and the start of the Christmas tree to do. 

I have also been working on the next 10 blocks of the Log Cabin Star quilt. I just have one more log to sew on and they are done.

I spent a little time yesterday messing around with the blocks to get an idea of the whole queen sized pattern. The book doesn't provide any guidance for a queen-sized quilt, but I did find the pattern on the internet. I am not real crazy about how it looks so I will be previewing ideas when I am close to finishing the blocks. I am using my dining room table and then standing on the staircase to take the photos. This is the original pattern.

This is similar to the pattern for the wall hanging. Looks like I missed turning a block.

This is something I was playing with to add more full stars which hubby thought would be a good idea. I would have to figure out how to move on from this point with all 196 blocks. Only 48 fit on my table.

Obviously I will have my work cut out for me once all the blocks are completed. There are also a few blocks where the red diamonds are a little shy at the corner. They could not be easily sewn to other red diamonds.

I am also starting to sew the binding on the Tweety latch hook.

I have watched several videos on how to make this into a pillow, but I decided to take tips from a few of them and do my own thing. I still have to purchase the pillow form.

I am joining Kathy for some Slow Sunday Stitching. Pop on over to her site to see what other bloggers are stitching.

Thanks for stopping by!