Got three christmas candy sets from Ibex94 yesterday. Yea!
My mother had planned on making quilts for her childern/grandchildern, and after she passed I found a notebook where she had written down the names of kids and the quilt pattern she had selected. She didn't end up making that many quilts before she discovered crochet and we all got afghans instead.
She had selected Cathedral Window for mine, so I felt I should at least make a small one for myself. I made a runner for my Hope Chest. I did all the stitching by machine, and that size was enough of a challenge for me. Though I made it a bit worse by making rectangles instead of squares. and doing a shaded pattern with the background so it was gray in the center and then shading to black for the outside. I sewed the blocks into rows, then sewed two rows together and then machine stitched down the fold all along the row. Then I added another row of blocks, and then stitched down the fold. Worked pretty well doing it that way. I have it hung up in the sewing room now.