Long Time

It sure has been a long time since I blogged. NY was fun I got a lot of stuff done for the wedding ... BIG Relief. I can't believe in 11 months we will be married. I am dreaming of making a wedding quilt. I wish we lived in the days where communities of women would get together and work with the bride to be on quilts for her home. I dream of those days lol. Of course I have only read about them in fiction books so maybe it never happened who knows.I still have not checked out the local guild I need to do that. I think it would be nice to have gals to quilt and shop with. Especially, since I keep sleeping in and missing my morning quilt chat !

I finished the pp star baby quilt and gave it to mom at the shower on Sunday. She really loved it. First time someone cried when they received a quilt of mine. Her husband called me to thank me too. Wow that made me feel good ! Here are some pics..

Splenda holder

I should be sewing on my stars for a baby quilt. However, this morning one of my quilt chat friends told me about these tea holders and I had to make one for my splenda. It took me 4 tries I threw out 3 of my yucky ones. Josh came in and saved them telling me not to throw them out to redo the straps. So I put those aside for now. Here is the one I am going to use and I plan to make a purple and black one for my step sister to give her birthday gift card in. I just love dual gifts :)









I have to at least make sure I have my fabric cut for my stars by tonight. If I don't get going on that I'll never have the quilt ready for August 15th.

Friendship Quilt

After hours of work and days of working on this quilt it is finally quilted, bound and ready to go to it's new home.

Indifferent

Since I last blogged, I have been working on finishing the quilt for my friend. I finished the quilting on it Tuesday. The quilting went ok, I had a lot of start and stop points. Smoothing the quilt and pushing it through is hard using one hand. But, I did it! It is by no means show quality but I think it came out pretty good. I got the binding put on the top of my label and should have the binding sewn on the front of my quilt by tomorrow night. That gives me 9 days or so to stitch it on back. I am seriously considering just doing it on the machine. I will see what I think once it is sewn on.

On a different note my mind has been pre occupied with getting the chance to work at a school teaching again. I have an interview tomorrow and am so excited. The prospect has me nervous and excited, eager and hesitant all at once. This is what I have wanted for the last 8 years !

I will post a pic of binding when it is done and let you all know how the interview goes. Wish me luck on both !!!!

Gifts keeping me sane

I have finally found a moment to blog. At 550 am no less. That seems to be the way my life is going lately. Up all night, tired all day. Anyhow, I have been working on a gift quilt for my friend in NY. I will be presenting it to her when I go to NY in July for her wedding.This is not a wedding gift but a birthday gift for her. I just got the borders pieced on yesterday and now I need to piece my backing and get going on the quilting on Monday. I hope I can get it together in time. We leave for NY on June 30th.



I also made my mom a table runner to bring with me to NY. At first I was not crazy about it but now I am starting to like it. I was a minute away from redoing the whole thing then I washed it and it looks better.



That handsome man holding the runner is my fiance Josh :)