When my mother-in-law died, I was given the opportunity to inherit her sewing machine. I had never been a seamstress, but when my sister-in-law offered to teach me to sew, I took her up on it. I like to think that I'm always willing to learn something new, and I enjoy spending time with my sister-in-law. She taught me to make some table linens. And I wondered, "After I get these done, what will I sew?" I mean, you have to sew things in order to get better at sewing things, right? One day at a quilt shop, I saw some instruction kits for appliqued panels. Each one was about 10 x 14 and depicted a scene related to a different month of the year. I thought that would be perfect. I could have something to make each month and theoretically get better as I completed each month's project. So I bought six, for July through December. Sometime in the last week of each month I would make the panel for the next month. And I did get better at it each month. I found that I looked forward to doing each new one. At the end of December, I realized that I could either go back to the quilt shop and get more of these panels OR I could try to come with some on my own.
For January I decided on a snowman. I know, it doesn't snow where I live, but when I think January, I think snow. I found a simple snowman coloring page and printed it out. I then traced each piece on paper and transferred the pieces to material. I use an interfacing that is double sided. I ironed the interfacing the pieces of material and then ironed all of the pieces onto my background. I wanted the snowman to have a cute embellishment so I found a youtube video with instructions for making a flower out of a scrap of material. After appliqueing the whole thing, I used buttons for the eyes and nose.
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