Pictures and Giveaways

I just finished editing some pics. I recently realized my son, bless him, has been sleeping all through the night for several nights. He's 17 months old so imagine my excitement. He hasn't always woken up but since he was about 11 months old he has, yes its been a joy. Anyway with all that sleeping throughout the night I'm up at 1 am photo editing, and entering blog giveaways. These pictures really show how genuinely happy my son is, awesome moments...




As for the giveaway, its not my giveaway but there's about a billion at Sew mama, Sew! go enter them all!!!

Another awesome giveaway...A Vintage style hat box, its adorable by the way. Find it here.

Actual Sewing

I guess beings my blog is 'supposed' to be about sewing and quilting I better do a post on that subject :D I've been researching hair accessories because this is my newest interest. I found a super cute reversible one here, super easy and very cute. Little girls and adults. Here's my two I made today








Next up is an adorable blog I found in the process of looking for hair stuff. I cant get over how cute her stuff is. She is from Australia. You can find her blog here, she has tutorials on some of her stuff and several places sell her patterns. The pillow is def. on my to do list. Its just too cute.

Recent projects.

Some recent stuff I started working on is Grandmothers flower garden which is hand pieced using a method called English paper piecing. I told my husband I was making it for our future daughter providing we ever have one so I have quite some time...considering I'm not even pregnant haha. And the next is called New York Beauty which could go together better in my opinion but it isn't. It paper pieced and has curves! Aren't I adventurous. I have like my quilting list of things I'd like to try and those are two of them. I'm going to the states in a few weeks and I'm going to take my hand piecing stuff so I can work on it. Its very portable. It fits in a small Tupperware container. You can find the paper piecing tutorial I used here, you can print out the hexagons pin them to your fabric and off you go. You can find the New York Beauty pattern here. Happy Quilting.

My son is a talker more than ever. He'll be 17 months in a few days. He talks and talks all day long problem is he's not speaking English. He just rattles on about god knows what, its pretty hilarious though. His favorite thing to say is HUH? All day, I hate it. Not a very intelligent word but he must have learned it somewhere haha. And he called his daddy Tyler. He yells at the top of his lungs TYLER!! I tell him no that's daddy. Wonder where he learned that :D Anyway not much else just thought I'd post an update.

My Apron

So I did that apron after all. I was inspired by a few different aprons one by Jcarolinecreative and another was a pillowcase apron and the one I used to wear when I was a barista at a coffee shop in Washington :) I love how it turned out, its reversible has two pockets and the ties you can either tie in the back or bring them around to the front. I made mine extra long. If I get enough comments I'll post the tutorial, I took pictures along the way. This one hits about mid thigh, I wanted it shorter than most. I used Deb Strain for Moda Bistro Coffee Fabric. I love the coffee theme. It turned out so much better than I expected. Thanks for looking :)

Recent stuff.

I havent posted in quite awhile, so much for keeping this up to date. I cant even say I've been busy because lol I havent. I finished all four of the twilight books which gets me back to quilting. Yay. I've finished 3 quilts in the last month and started one for my husband.
First up is one I did for my mother in law for her birthday, machine pieced and quilted with a free motion paisley design. Took me quite some time.


Next are some fabric postcards I did for a recent swap. Nothing fancy I like to keep my stuff simple for the most part.

Thats everything quilty I have for now. I'm planning on doing an apron hopefully today so I'll post pics later. Enjoy your week.

It puts the Die in Dynamic....

My latest quilt. uh. umm not what I hoped it would be. I really thought with the colors and the fabric, the bright colors, something dynamic would come out of it. I was comletely wrong. I do not like this quilt very much at all. I planned to give it to my neighbor who has been an awesome friend to us over the past three years we've lived in Germany. I might not do that now. bah ha.

I also finished place mats yesterday. Perfect binding on one or two. Its great that the first thing you try you screw up and you learn so that the rest are perfect but you still have that screwed up one. Oh well.

We had a busy day yesterday. Cleaning, quilting, baking, cooking, playing. Landon Talks more and more all the time. We were playing with the camera yesterday and I kept saying 'say cheese' sure enough he started saying cheeeeeeese everytime I did. He tries to say apple too he just says app. I started calling him my pb. The peanut butter to my jelly :D He's my bud. I told my husband sometimes I feel more like the baby sitter because he gets away with everything. How can I dicipline something so cute :D So he wanted cookies and I wouldnt give them to him so he just carried around the package with the most aweful disgusted look on his face whining and crying. It was veerrry dramatic. As you can see>>>

So of course I caved and gave him the cookie.

I am soooo ready for spring and it just keeps dumpin snow. Poor hubby has to shovel the driveway everyday. Landon cant go outside and play, the sun wont come out. I'll even take the cleaning that comes with spring if it would just get here.