Fiber Monday: not quite the last minute

With life having calmed down enough that I can think about other things, such as Christmas, I suddenly remembered something today. Earlier this year, like January, I went and took advantage of Christmas fabric being on sale and bought yards of a print that would be suitable for a tablecloth. The idea was that sometime in the summer, I would turn this into an actual tablecloth and be prepared for Christmas. 

My problem with planning ahead like this is that I forget about the plans. I'm pretty sure I didn't think about that fabric once all summer. Since I only just remembered it, you can be sure it was never turned into... anything.

I'm pretty sure the only reason I remembered it today was that I was counting heads for various meals and thinking about how to seat everyone, which made me think tables, then table coverings, and then... Fabric!

Here's my issue. We have a very unusual table at the moment to make the space work for all of us. 

It's square. And while it works well to seat 12-15 people in a small room, it makes it difficult to find tablecloths for. I have a very large number of beautiful linen tablecloths I have collected over the years. I love them, nut even when these tables are end to end, they are much narrower than a typical table. So I have been slowly making cloths that fit. They are not fine linen, but they are easier to wash. To add to the complicating factors, when everyone is here, we need to add a long folding table at one end to add more seating. That's great, but makes the tablecloth issue that much more challenging.

All this to explain why I was wrestling this pile of fabric today.

This is two lengths of six yards of fabric.

Here's what it looks like on the right side.

I've seen them together and now need to finish the seam and hem the edges. I should be able to finish it by Christmas Eve. (It looks as though we'll be 16 for Christmas Eve dinner and 17 for Christmas breakfast and lunch.)

The other thing I was able to do over the past few days is do some spinning. I really needed some mindless project, so dug out someore of the batts I made earlier this year. The colors are making me very happy.

And, it's not fiber related, but we got the wrapping station set-up today. It lives in my bedroom and allows each person to easily wrap the gifts they are giving.

There's everything anyone needs... Paper, tissue paper, bags, boxes, bows, tags, scissors, tape, and garbage. We reuse the tissue paper, bows, boxes, bags, and tags every year, so tape and paper are the only things I need to buy. I had enough paper from last year left that I didn't even need to do that this year. 

I'm pretty sure Christmas will all work out and that this will actually be a fairly calm week doing the last few things.