Merry Christmas, postcard, placemats, and zippers

I received one on Vicki's fancy postcards yesterday. It is beautiful!

I decided I needed to make some placemats for Xmas dinner on Friday. I found this leftover cutlery fabric and just started cutting. I layered some iron on fleece and a layer of batting with the iron on part facing the batting. It took me about 20 minutes to quilt each placemat. I had just enough fabric for the binding. I needed five placemats and yes, I did put minion fabric on the other side.

Here is one placemat where I had to piece together three pieces of fabric to get a big enough piece for that fifth placemats. It is not even noticeable! Finished the placemats measure about 17 1/2 x12 1/4

Here is the fabric I had left!

I received my box of zippers from Wawak. I ordered these Monday afternoon! I needed a black zipper for this boxy pouch.

Well, I couldn't order just one zipper and I needed to resupply and I needed to order enough to get the discount and free shipping - right? I ordered two types of zippers. The red one is a bag zipper and has a bigger pull.  I use those for project bags and thread beds.  The other zippers are for those curved top pouches.

I like to sort them by type and color.

Then bag them up. Now I have something to work with!

So today I will be busy baking pies and cookies for Christmas with my family tomorrow. I have some straightening up to do and a bit of cleaning too. I am glad to have the extra day to get what I want done. Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season!