36

I turned 36 yesterday.  I'm amazed that I (along with so many others) managed to go to school and change careers after having 3 children.  I'm in a place I never thought I'd be in and I'm loving it!  The hubs was waaay good to me and got a Happy Birthday/Happy Graduation/Congrats you got a job gift.

What do you think?  Yep, I do have a pretty good husband!  I knew it wouldn't be very family friendly but today that was the only car I had to drive and after getting Liam in and out of his car seat 3 times . . . well, I think we'll be taking the van next time we run errands. 

I spent last week in orientation and tomorrow is my first day in the ER.  Guess I better get some quilting done before the kids get home from the pool.

Until next time friends!

Busy Bee

I've been really busy quilting.  My "stay at home" time ends Monday, so I've challenged myself to get as much done as possible before then.  Here's what I've been working on (since I obviously have not been blogging!)

This is a block for the Bumble Beans quilt along.  I didn't plan my layout too well so my colors are off but I am still pleased with how it turned out!

This is a little quilt I dreamt up about a year ago.  I had a some difficulty finding the perfect gray so it got put away for awhile but I decided to pull it out again and get it finished.  It is much more striking in person!  The HST are cut from 4" squares I purchased off E-bay during my 4" square addiction.

This is from 2 Christmas charm packs - Ready, Set, Snow and leftovers from another one I forgot the name of :(.  The border is a red with white snowflakes that I picked up at Joann's.  (I'll post a better pic after it's quilted).

LOVE how this turned out!

Box of Chocolates - I had a bundle of Chocolate fat quarters in my stash and decided it was time to do something with them.  I kept it simple as I didn't want to take away from the fabric.  I just love these colors!

Spirited - about a year ago I won a charm pack - Spirited - and thought it would make a funky little baby quilt.  I like all the coin/charm quilts I've been seeing on flickr so I followed suit and made one!

This was supposed to be a "Turning Twenty" quilt but I pieced most of the blocks wrong so this is what we ended up with.  It's for my daughter Caitlyn and she wants softball fabric on the back.  I don't think it's big enough for her bed so it might get another border when I decide on a color.

Wow!  That was a lot.  I start my new job on Monday. . . it's kinda of bitter sweet.  I've sure enjoyed having 3 years at home with the kids but its high time I start contributing to the bank account.  At least 12hr shifts will still allow some quilting time!

Until next time!

Japanese + and blocks

My oldest daughter says, "That's ugly!"  I have to agree but these babies are addictive!

Until next time!

Scrap Buster #3

As I cruise the blogs I've been seeing a lot of coin quilts and with my love for scraps thought I should try a scrappy coin quilt.  I decided to go with blue but didn't think I had enough for a quilt.  I asked 3 of my friends to trade me some of their blue scraps.  AFTER I asked for scraps, I sorted all of my scraps.  I had one grocery bag and 2 gallon zip log bags packed FULL of blue.  I guess I didn't need all their scraps but they sure added character to the quilt.  They all sent scraps but 2 of them wouldn't accept anything in exchange.  One box I got was pretty much cut into strips for me at 2.5" - How perfect!  And most of the fabrics in there were sooo my style!  I cut and I sewed and I ironed and I cut and I sewed and I ironed (refer to pics in last post) and Wa La!

Hopefully this gets off to the quilter this week.  I had a few leftovers from this and am already working on another layout!  Yay for scraps!

Until next time!

Back home and time to sew

We're back from Colorado!  My machine took a little trip to the spa while I was gone so I'm heading out to get her back. 

Before we left, I took a whole bunch of this:

And turned it into this

Which is now becoming this

Maybe by early next week I will have a coin quilt top done.

Here are some of my quilt along Japanese + and x bocks - not very pretty but we'll see how they turn out

and this is my bounty from last weeks shopping trip!  There's even some designer fabric in there.

Until next time friends!

It's time for a short vacation

I am having problems with my other computer so I can't share any pictures :(

I took the log cabin quilt to the quilter today and can't wait to get it back and to its new owner.

I joined another quilt-along at http://bumblebeansinc.blogspot.com/ - it's a real scrappy one so it should be lots of fun!

No quilt along blocks got done today but I managed to cut a whole bunch of blue strips for my coin quilt.  I hope to have time tomorrow to lay them out and see if I have enough.

My to do list (before vacation)
-manicure and pedicure (an absolute must!)
-laundry
-pack
-take sewing machine in to get serviced
-get house picked up

Enjoy your weekend - - - - Until next time!

Busy Little Bee

I really wanted to post some pics tonight but the computer I need for that is occupied by a teenager.  I had a very successful shopping trip yesterday.  I had to run to Omaha to get some airplane parts for the hubs and decided to make a day out of it.  Liam wasn't too impressed but we managed to stop at Country Sampler, The Quilted Moose and of course JoAnn's.  I ONLY purchased 24 yards of fabric, one charm pack and one book.

Today I added the last border to the log cabin quilt and pieced the back - it's off to the quilter tomorrow.  I made one complete quilt along block (woo hoo I now have a total of 4 done).  I did manage to start 5 others though, they just need pieced together.  Tonight I ironed for 30 minutes straight on some blue strips that I'll show you next time (stay tuned for another great and easy scrap buster).  My house is a disaster and I have company coming tomorrow - I'm hoping that since she's my bestie she'll understand that quilting comes before cleaning!

Do you remember the last post when I had that picture of Liam in his underwear?  Well I was outside today trying to take a picture of the Log Cabin quilt hanging from the fence.  He had just gotten done swimming and was running around naked (we're potty training and naked is the only way that has worked so far).  He came outside with an umbrella of all things, and wanted to pose - completely naked with an umbrella - in the picture of my quilt!  I talked him out of it but as he walked away I was able to snap a picture of an umbrella and a baby butt!  I would love to share but I think there are laws against that

I hate to post without pics soo. . .

This is a pic from last years trip to Vail, Co.  We go every year so Bill can do the annual inspection on an airplane owned by a friend.  They have a beautiful log cabin home and a bunkhouse over the garage (where we stay).  This stream runs behind the house and is the kids' favorite attraction.  We're headed there this weekend and while we're gone I plan to fix the binding on Aaron's graduation quilt - I must quilt everywhere I go!

Until next time!