Quick Sews

One of Joel's colleagues was expecting a baby girl yesterday.  In their culture it's bad luck to give gifts before the baby is born, so they waited until today to celebrate the arrival.  I made a flannel receiving blanket for her. 

I have a friend who has family in Houston.  She and her husband are headed down to Texas this weekend to help with the clean up, and they are filling their car with things a local church requested.  This particular church is short on items for babies, so I made another receiving blanket and put a gift card with it for them to take.  That way there's a personal touch but it still has practicality.

I amused myself by changing the bobbin colors on the blankets - green on one and yellow on the other.  I used a turquoise blue thread on the front.