Final 2023 Cornucopia

 

Last day of the year, last cornucopia of links to things I've enjoyed or recommend or want to pass on for the year.

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It's obviously too late now for Holiday gift sewing ideas, but check all of these tutorial videos from Janome for next year.

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I enjoyed seeing these quilts  by Galla Grotto featured on the HandiQuilter blog, they were on display at the Houston show this year.

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The utter strangeness of Victorian era Christmas cards will never fail to amuse and perturb. I feel like a lot of these need some more context. Are they meant to be silly, sarcastic, or threatening? Why not all three?

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The images of JRR Tolkien's letters to his children as Father Christmas over 23 years are so beautiful. I love the idea of this father creating whole words for his children in these letters. What a treasure.

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QuiltInk is an interesting and easy to use website for coloring in your quilt pattern designs. I was interested in a new Libs Elliot pattern, Electric Pineapple and she mentioned trying out coloring it using QuiltInk.

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Heather Cox Richardson on why the resignation of George Washington is one of the highest moral lessons ever given to the world."

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For next year, make Danish Star ornaments out of fabric strips with this helpful video tutorial.

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Really lovely to hear the original Christopher Plummer vocals for Edelweiss in The Sound of Music.

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