Open house at A Touch of Amish in Barrington, Illinois

Saturday was get out of the house day!

A Touch of Amish, quilt shop, in Barrington was having an open house, to

show quick little gift ideas and projects.

It was originally scheduled in November, but that was the one weekend

we had snow. The roads were horrible, so they cancelled.

They have a neat schedule set up, so that you can get the opportunity to see 

all the demonstrations.

This one was for a cute Santa Mug Rug.  It was a kit all cut and ready to be sewn
packaged in an adorable snowman mug.
Naturally I had to get one of these!

Now about this sweet snowman ornament?
Just 1/2 inch wide wool strips rolled to create his body and hat.
Now I think I can do that with the abundance of wool I have.
Great for next year!

Then this snowman ornament!
I think there was a lot of snowman themed items!
Again, a fun little handwork project.

This was created using an Acucut die.
But can easily be done with any acrylic hexagon ruler
The whole inside is made using hexagons, cut in half and or cut in quarters,
to build him.

The demonstrator said this idea came from
Missouri Star.  They snowed how to use the hexagon ruler
to make pumpkins, with a little imagination, she made it into ornaments.

Again, this table runner is made using the Acucut die, but can easily be made
using a hexagon ruler.
There was instructions to make the individual tissue packages that
you can stick in your purse. Demonstrations and kits, for all the projects I showed, as
well as a cute mini table runner, a star ornament, snowflake ornament, gift tags, wool flowers,
holiday pillowcases, a wine bag, door hangers, and more.
It started at 10:30 and went until 3:00 with up to four demonstrations every 30 minutes.

I got a few new ideas of things to play with.
It is time I went into my sewing room and got busy.
I hope some of these ideas are things you may want to play with.
I know we are getting closer to Christmas, and may not have time,
but there is always January.  I find I will start working on this type of
projects after the new year.  You can never start too early, for next Christmas.

Hope you have a wonderful week.
Mary