The Befana takes all the festivities away...

so I thought I'd show you what I managed to make for Christmas before the end of this day:

these are the two mats I made at my Christmas patchwork course in Laveno with Francesca http://www.tessilesa.it/

and these are the Christmas tags I invented using the "improvised patchwork" Christmas tree I also learnt to make at one of Francesca's courses. On the back of the tag there's the name of the person  who the present's for, written with a pen for material.