A family tradition

Hey welcome to PamKittyMorning day of the Cross Country Christmas blog hop. My regular peeps already know me, so for you new peeps, my name is Pam and I like coffee. A lot. I design a few patterns for Late Bloomer Quilts which is my friend Elizabeth's pattern company but mostly I sit around, drink coffee and sew!

Today we're talking about Family Traditions. I think our most long lasting tradition is the Christmas Eve ride to look at the lights. It's my favorite part of Christmas, we all pile into the car after dinner and drive around, we have our favorite spots, like this house on a hill in Pleasanton. Its HUGE and they have a big window you can see in from the car, and they have music playing. Its in a swanky neighborhood and on Christmas Eve the streets are lined with paper bag luminaries and people turn their car lights off and drive around looking at the lights. They're amazing. From the top of the hill you can look out and see all the way to delta on one side and across the Livermore Valley from the other. Beautiful.

Of course I always try to get good photos, never have good of luck. Our absolute favorite is the 'old guy' downtown. He's already on his lighting now, we start driving by his place on Halloween to check his progress.
He goes all out, and the past few years he's even had a Santa out there passing out candy canes. It's a lot of fun and I'm already looking forward to going out this year. I usually drive around previewing the neighborhoods because I really love the lights.

But on to my project. For my regular peeps, you know I love coffee. LOVE COFFEE. Well this little table mat is about coffee and I call it Come Around for Coffee. It doesn't take much time, and I only did some in the ditch quilting.. making it a pretty quick finish. I used some of my precious LakeHouse Doll Dresses in the geese units and my other precious Lecien 30's for the rest of the quilt. Thanks to Lecien for providing a fat quarter bundle of their Spaicy Scrap fabric for the Grand Prize giveaway basket!!


The Come Around For Coffee pattern can be found here as a pdf, print it and either get sewing or maybe put it off for a while. I think this will make a great spring time gift for all you people who have everything done!! (and for those of us who won't get it done before Christmas!)

Leave me a comment today an not only will you be entered into the Grand Prize drawing, I'll also draw a name, the winner will receive a little kit for this quilt, plus Elizabeth's Sweet Pea Trellis pattern and some fat quarters of the soon to be released Sweet Pea fabric from RJR. Also, Alex gave me a 6 month gift membership to The Quilt Show to share, I have some pretty cool friends huh?

There's still half the hop left, so see you tomorrow! xo