Nativity Advent Wallhangingconstructed by Mary Anne Ciccotelli
Pelham, New York
November 2000 – November 2007
This project was started November 2000 in Ames, Iowa. My daughter Emily and I went to visit Iowa State University during her senior year to see the campus and check out the programs the school offered. Her boyfriend (at the time) was attending Iowa State, so needless to say, I had a lot of time to fill by myself. Luckily, there was a JoAnn’s fabric store in Ames. I found a book with the pattern for this advent calendar in it. I love to collect nativity scenes so I decided this was the perfect project. I also decided that I should make three – one for me and one for each of my daughters. I purchased little bits of fabric and other needed supplies and started working on the nativity figures that weekend in Iowa.
Each Christmas season, I would pull this project out and do a little more work on it. This past September, as I was preparing for my visit to Idaho, Emily suggested that I bring these wallhangings to Idaho and work on them. I did not quite get them completed while in Idaho, but I did continue to work on them. At last, these projects are off my UFO list.
(From the pattern – Glad Tidings Advent by Art to Heart)
There are 23 figures and the wallhanging. I am thinking put can put the wallhanging up Dec. 1 and then move a figure to the manger scene each day up until Christmas. I only did 24 things because then you can complete the scene on Dec. 24 when you still have time to enjoy it. Because when Christmas comes everyone is usually so busy with the gifts to put the last item on the scene.
Here is a picture of one of the labels.
All the figures our in the Manager scene.
I love the sheep.
This is one of my favorite figues. I love how I used ends of toothpicks for the drumsticks.
You would think that I since I just finished three projects off my UFO (UnFinished Objects) list, that I wouldn’t want to start anything new. Sorry to say, that is not quite how it works, so here is a picture of one of my newest projects. I wanted something easy to display the folded hexagon oraments when I am out doing the hands-on-demo, so I thought of putting them in a wallhanging with a Christmas tree. Here is the beginning of the project, I will probably not do much more on it until late February because my next demo is scheduled for sometime in March.
I thought is would be fun for the Christmas tree to be 3-dimensional also.
Here is one folded hexagon I have made for it, now to make some more to make the tree look even better. And maybe even some working lights? Have to wait and see how things all work out.
This is another project that I am working on,