The last of my Christmas gift sewing is done – YIPPEE!  A host gift for my aunt and uncle who will be having the family en masse on Christmas Day.

It’s a modified version of the Nine Patch Door Stop by Elizabeth Green at Oh, Fransson!  What a terrific tutorial!  I didn’t have enough time to do the patchwork front, so just used a feature fabric and quilted it (and the back of the doorstop, in the same quilting design).  It’s filled with beans (it takes quite a lot) and has a zipper at the bottom so it can be emptied for washing.  I’m going to make loads more of these – they’re useful and attractive.  Actually, I made one the same for me.

My presser foot mechanism on my sewing machine gave up the ghost just as I was completing the last seams of the door stop.  It is now booked in for a service.  No wonder!