Christmas Music and Charity Sewing

I'm still not 100% from whatever this "crud" that took over my body a couple of weeks ago.  Last night, we had what ultimately turned out to be a "minor" (thankgoodness) emergency with two of the dogs that amounted to a vet visit and an overnight stay for them at the clinic.  All is OK there and I'm breathing again. 

This afternoon, I needed some "down time" in the sewing room.  I put Aaron Neville's "Soulful Christmas" into the CD player and got a head start on some charity sewing. I love this CD and, in particular, his versions of "O Holy Night" and "Louisiana Christmas Day." Our ASG neighborhood group loves making fun pillowcases for the Dallas children's hospitals.  I went through some of the stash quilting cottons and found some spiderman, snowmen, and vintage telephones prints.  These don't take long to sew up; I had fun and cleared my mind of my stuffy nose and life's emergencies. :)

Then, I pulled out this red rose fabric to cut out this burda jacket pattern.  I had been wanting to make this patttern again and couldn't decide on a piece of stash fabric.  Today, while sipping on my Diet Dr. Pepper, I remembered this fabic that I'd purchased at least 5 years ago (maybe more years than that).  It has a denim feel to it; it's cotton/lycra and as I remember, I washed it numerous times to hopefully get most of the shrinkage taken care of.  I bought it having no idea what I would use it for, but knew it would be perfect for something someday.  Anywho, it's all cut and ready to sew when I have a clearer head (from fewer antihistamines in my system).  It may get done for Christmas Day and it may not--I'm going to be easy on myself!