Sewing and Beyond with Mary Anne Ciccotelli

On the last week of sewing classes before the Christmas break I offer a holiday project for the students to make. I play Christmas music and we just kind of have a party. Yesterday I almost forgot about all of this. It was almost time for class to start and I hadn’t made any of the preparations. Luckily I had time to put up the tree and had all the supplies I needed. Here is the tree that I put in my studio. Before I married Tom the girls and I lived in Maryland and we had a sewing room in our townhouse. One year we decided that we needed a tree in there also (it wasn’t enough to have a tree in the living room and one in the family room) and it should be decorated with sewing notions. I made the tree skirt and we made the decorations. (I am not sure how I got done all the things I did when I had two young daughters and was working full-time – I think that part of it was that I would go without alot of sleep at times. As you can see, I have struggled with moderation in things for a LONG time.)

Here is the angle made from a pair of scissors.

Thimble and bobbin used for oranments. Also the tape measures garland.

What would a sewing Christmas tree be without a hem guage ornaments.

We can’t forgot the thread…………..

or the tomato pin cushion.

And the chalk marking pencil.

What fun memories – working with my daughters

to design and make decorations for this tree.

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