Christmas mistletoe 2011 and 2013

It all started with Mistletoe Magic, a pattern by Debbie Busby of Wooden Spools Designs. I completed the kissing ball stamp pillow in 2011 and but the finishing the wooly green mistletoe was bit more elusive. Debbie Busby's pattern instruction called for buttons on the hanging mistletoe. While I was at the 2011 Houston Quilt Show I saw small wool balls and decided I would use wool ball rather than buttons. It was not easy to find about 70 cream wool balls but I did it. When I got home, I began sewing on all the wool balls. Much to surprise Katie, my standard poodle, decided that these wool ball were quite tasty. Katie was stealing the wool balls from the bowl as I was trying to sew them on the mistletoe sprigs but I finally sewed all the wool balls on the wool mistletoe sprigs. I left the almost finished mistletoe ball in a project bag and left the house for an appointment. A few hours later, I came back home and I discovered a ripped and torn project bag in the back yard, mistletoe sprigs minus wool balls strewn around the yard. Lucky for Katie, I was able to buy more wool balls on line, then the bow was the only thing missing. I may be able to do a lot of things but making a wired floral bow is not something I can do. Last week, my friend Wanda Seal, came to my rescue. The bow she made is beautiful. So 2 years later, the pillow and the mistletoe ball are now complete.