Project number 1

Last year for Christmas I started a tradition of making homemade gifts from my kids to their grandparents.  This years gift was a handprint wreath made into a wall hanging.  Basically you just dip the kid's hand in paint and press onto fabric and repeat, making a circle.  We used red paint to add some berries too.  This was a bit of an undertaking with a 2 year old who struggles to listen at the best of times let alone with his hand covered in green paint.  But we managed to do this twice, once for each set of grandparents. Here is a picture of the wreath part.

So even with a week old baby I completed the first wall hanging in time for an early Christmas celebration with the in-laws, but for my own parents, I wasn't quiet as successful.  On Christmas morning I wrapped up the incomplete wall hanging and attached a note saying "it wouldn't be Christmas without giving you an incomplete quilt project...sorry!"  It as become somewhat of a Christmas tradition!!

I am now happy to report that this project was the first of the UFOs (unfinished object) to be completed.  Here is the finished product, label an all.

I mailed it to my parents a week ago.  So project one is complete!  Onto the next one!