I must be. I decided that with a newborn and everything, that now would be a good time to start a new applique quilt. It’s only one block a month, right. Totally do-able. Yup, totally!
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You Can Call Me Crazy or You Can Call Me Crazy
I must be. I decided that with a newborn and everything, that now would be a good time to start a new applique quilt. It’s only one block a month, right. Totally do-able. Yup, totally!
Rally for the Cure
Yesterday was the Rally for the Cure put on by the Oak Valley Ladies Golf Association. I made the quilt that they raffled off to raise money to go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. I’m happy to say that a sweet lady named Joann Marion won the quilt. I hope that she will enjoy it! I am also happy to report that the sale of raffle tickets raised about $820. I wanted to thank everyone who helped to sell the raffle tickets. We really could not have done it without you! Also, thanks to everyone who bought tickets. I am so pleased with the outcome! I Couldn’t Resist
I’m pretty lucky that I get to put my Interior Design degree to use twice a year and work at the High Point International Home Furniture Market. I help put together the Guildmaster showroom. Doing this has plenty of advantages, one being that every once in a while I get to bring home a great piece of furniture like this! My husband would argue that we have too much furniture and I have to admit that it did take quite a bit of figuring and rearranging to find a place to put this, but I just couldn’t resist. I had something special in mind for it. (By the way, my husband loves moving furniture around for me. He didn’t complain once. Yeah, right. But hey, that’s what he gets for marrying a designer. Designers like to move furniture around a lot.)
I wanted to a place to display my quilts and this fit the bill perfectly. I have been wondering what the heck I was gonna do with all these quilts I have. Lately they have been getting stacked up in the crib in the nursery, but since that space will be occupied soon, I needed to do something with them. So, Viola! And doesn’t that cute little Featherweight tuck in there perfectly! Finally Getting Something Done
I am finally getting back into some crafting and starting to check things off of my list. Slowly but surely. First thing completed… the spiderweb quilt. And one of my favorite things about it…
my new little labels. I ordered them from the same talented lady that makes Red Pepper Quilts labels and here is the info on that, in case you are wondering. I have so many things that I want to make and I get excited just thinking about all those things. Now if I could just stop being so flaky and get organized and focused. Sunday Sewing
I cannot tell you how long this quilt has been on my UFO list and I have put my mind to it to get it done. Today I finally got the main part of the quilt top finished. Or at least I think it’s finished. I have been ignoring that little voice in the back of my head that keeps saying I need to add another row to the bottom before I put on the borders. I’m ignoring it because that would mean I would have to make 20 more triangles so I could make 5 more blocks. Ehhh. I know that 20 triangles isn’t that much more when I have made so many already, but I feel like it has taken me fooore-v-e-r just to get to this point. The thought of having to make more just makes me tired. I should just slap a border on this sucker and check it off my UFO list. Right?!? Too bad that same little voice is also saying that a pretty pieced border out of all my scraps would be nice too. Oh, what to do, what to do?!? I think I better sleep on it. I could be easily persuaded, though.
Happenings
Can somebody please tell me who said it was okay for this little bugger to grow up? My baby turned 4 on Sunday. I told him that he had to stay a baby, but he wouldn’t listen. Spiderman was the theme of the day. He loved every minute of it. Right down to his favorite cake from Dewey’s.
We spent his birthday and the holiday weekend at High Rock Lake. My brother and his family came and along with my parents and my sister’s family, we spent the weekend sunning, eating, swimming and having fun. To amuse my dad, who spent the weekend egging me on, I decided to wakeboard. (okay, I haven’t wakeboarded in years. I mean, when I say years, I mean like 10+ yeeeears!) I couldn’t let the old man tease me. So, I got in the cold lake water. I listened to hecklers from the shoreline. (including my 4 year old that keep yelling not to do it. That, quote, “I was tooo old”) And I wakeboarded. I got up on the wakeboard. I wakeborded until I thought I would crash going over the wake. I let go of the rope before I did a face plant in the water. I hurt my back wakeboarding. I hurt my arms and my legs and my hair! I.am.too.old.to.wakeboard!
I need to stick with what any self respecting, too-old-to-wakeboard girl ought to. I need to stick to sewing.
These are a couple of the quilts I have in the works right now. My summer of, get some stinking UFO’s done continues….
good thing you don’t have to lift your arms above your head to sew…
(because I can’t)
By the way, I’m thinking a Giveaway might be in the works!
The Year of the UFO
This year I have made it a point to try and get many of the projects I have started finished. I have a bad habit of starting things and then moving on to the next project before I get things finished.
I started a Spiderweb String Quilt last year and made about two rows before I set it aside and never looked at it again. This past weekend I went on a quilting retreat at Montreat and I decided it would be the perfect time to work on getting this quilt to the next step.
I worked like mad on it and I got 80 triangles pieced. That is what I needed to make to add 4 more rows to this quilt. Now that that is done, the next step is to get all these sewn together. It’s getting closer and closer to being finished. I am excited to see how it turns out. I had such a good time at the retreat, too. The group of ladies that go are so nice and fun to be around. I spend as much time laughing as I do sewing. I can’t wait to go back again in the Fall.
I also was able to cross two baby quilts off my UFO list.
This one is going to a friend of mine that is expecting. This summer, I plan to get down to business and really get a good amount to things done. There will be some miles put on my sewing machine! Show + Tell
It’s Finished! I put the final stitches in the quilt for the Rally for the Cure yesterday. I also got the raffle tickets ordered today, so we will be harassing everyone to buy them soon. Like last year, all the proceeded for the quilt raffle will go to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The drawing will be October 6. 
This year, they are having a garden theme so I used a Brick Path pattern and added a flower and bunny applique to the top. I also used Joel Dewberry’s Modern Meadow fabric line. I’m really digging that fabric line.
Fletcher is going to a birthday party on Saturday so I made this little art tote for the gift. (I’m thinking this would be a good tutorial. I’ll have to work on that.) I’m always weary of how people will react to “handmade” gifts, but that’s what they’re getting. Hope it goes well. I can’t go to the party because I will be at a quilt retreat in Black Mountain, NC,(YEAH!) so the hubbers has to take Fletch. He is not exactly thrilled to have to take Fletch without me, but he’s gotta do it. Hopefully, some of the other daddies will be there.
And finally, my Sunday sewing project was this Barcelona skirt in Modern Meadow fabric (of course.) I have never put in an invisible zipper before now, but I did it and it turned out pretty good, so there will be more invisible zippers put in things from now on. Actually, I would like to make another skirt since it went together so quickly.There is a ton more things to get done before I head off for a long weekend with my quilting peeps and I need to start thinking about what I am going to take to work on, so I’m off to get more things checked off my list.
Borders On…Check
Okay, so I have the borders done. Guess what? No white border. Yeah, something new. Now to quilt and bind it. Wonder when that will get done?!?
Crack-a-lackin’
Yesterday when my husband came home and saw the sewing machine set up on the kitchen table and fabric draped around the living room he said, “I wondered how long it was going to take before you started another quilt.” Not long, honey, not long! This is my latest, but it is turning into an oops! project. It was on my UFO list for last month and I was supposed to have gotten it done, but with everything going on…that did not happen. I had planned on making it a throw size quilt, but I goofed on how much yardage I bought, so it looks like it’s going to be a crib size. (I guess I could buy more yardage, but I’m being cheap, especially after having to pay taxes this month.) I am just going to add borders and be done with it. I’m having a little trouble deciding on the border. I usually would use a solid like Kona Snow, but maybe I should use something besides a white/neutral border. What do you think? Should I break out of the box? Ahh, decisions, decisions. Oh yeah, for everyone that asked, the purses from the last post were made using Heather Bailey’s Marlo Bloom pattern.