Sewing Room

Well, my sewing room is all put together for the most part so tomorrow I can start sewing, I hope!! Woo hoo! I'm excited, can you tell? Oh, just a side note, my grandson asked me the other day if his and his dad's new room would soon be their old room and they would get moved into a third bedroom!?!? I told him no probably not. Interesting the things that go through their minds.

More Quilt Photos

Well, I finally got my husband to transfer some photos to my computer so I could post them. The first quilt, the one with the trucks, is the one I made for my first grandson for his 3rd birthday. He still loves it two years later and it is none the worse for wear other than being slightly faded. Not too bad, considering all the use it gets and all the washing! Pattern from the Nov/Dec 1998 Quiltmaker magazine which someone gave me about 4 years ago.

These next ones are for the first bed sized quilt I made. I saw the pattern in a book from the library--Eleanor Burn's Quilt in a Day-Still Stripping After 25 Years --only hers was for a smaller quilt. I have a friend who works at the Quilter's Ranch (quiltersranch.com) who helped me enlarge the pattern to fit a bed. I think it turned out pretty well consideri

ng it was the first time I had made such a big quilt and therefore it was the first big quilt I machine quilted. There are a few oops in it but overall, it is pretty. It took me over a year to make the quilt as I put it aside for a while since I was scared to start doing the machine quilting but I finally got up my nerve and got it finished just in time for my husband's birthday, which was a lucky coincedence, I thought. As you can see I also made a matching pillow. My husband photoshopped the pictures to take out all the "distracting" stuff around the bed so that it why it seems to be floating in space! Also he changed the flash between the two photos when he took the pictures, that is why one seems more yellow than the other.

I'll post more quilt photos as I get them.

I couldn't resist!

My daughter changed the background for her blog the other day and it is cute so I thought I'd look and see what the site (thecutestblogontheblock.com) had for Valentine's Day and there on the next to the last page was this background with an owl!!!! I couldn't resist it and so had to use it. Anyone who knows me, knows that I like owls and so this was a nobrainer choice for me. It will probably be here on my blog for longer than just Valentine's Day, just to warn you! :)

Sewing room mess

With 3 grand babies on the way, I'm anxious to get started on making them some quilts but my sewing room is nonexistent at the moment! With all the moving around of stuff for when we had the house re-piped, we thought we might as well rearrange rooms since everything was already moved around. So my oldest son and his son moved into what used to be my sewing room and now my oldest and youngest sons are tiling the floor in what used to be my oldest son's room which will then become my sewing room! Did you follow all that? So needless to say, there is no place at the moment for sewing. But since I couldn't wait, this morning I cut out the fabric for the first baby quilt. Yay! My husband says that by this weekend my sewing room should be up and running so then I can start putting the quilt together. Yay again. So that's how things stand around here.

1st Quilt photo

Well, I couldn't find any photos of the other quilts I have made up to this point, I'll have to ask my husband where they are. But here is a photo of a quilt I recently made. I made up the pattern myself, it is very simple but came out ok. This picture doesn't do it justice. I'll have to practice more on taking photos of my quilts. Anyway, this wall quilt was a baby shower gift for my husband's nephew's new son. So here is the first quilt photo that I'm putting on this blog.

Obviously I need more practice on posting photos (and taking them!).

It's a New Year!

And I'm starting it with a bad cold! :( I feel miserable. But at the same time I'm hopeful that this new year will be a good one for me and my family and for you. We've had good times this past year and some sad times but for the most part, 2008 was a good year and we hope that 2009 will be the same.

We are starting out the new year with completely new pipes in our house. We discovered a slab leak (the pipes under the concrete slab of our house developed a leak) a week before Christmas and rather than just have the plumbers jackhammer and fix the one leak with the possibility of more leaks in the future, we had the house re-piped. So now there are no pipes in use running under the slab, they are now in the attic. And we got all new pipes at each of the fixtures in the house. That meant that we had a swiss cheese house for Christmas but one with new pipes so that was ok. We got the holes in the walls fixed this Tuesday and then painted those walls yesterday so our house greets the new year in better condition than it was before. Hopefully we won't have to worry about anymore leaks of any kind for 20 or more years.

But in between all those repairs, we saw all of our children sometime during the week of Christmas except our son who is on a mission for our church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in Germany and we spoke to him for about 2 hours on Christmas day so it was almost as if he was here with us. So this Christmas weekend has been like our year, good things mixed with not so good things, but we made it through just fine and I'm sure, with the Lord's help, we will make it through the new year.

And as far as quilting things go, I finally finished the Christmas quilt for our bed on the Friday before Christmas. It only took me a year to finish! But in between starting and finishing it, I also worked on some other projects--a birthday/Christmas quilt for one of my grandsons, a quilted table runner, a wall quilt for a new nephew, and a stitchery project example for our Super Saturday Enrichment in November, so I was busy. I need to get my husband to download the pictures of all those things so that I can post them here. Maybe this week before he goes back to work on Monday.

Anyway, Happy New Year to you all!