First Quilt

I am going to give quilting a shot next!  It's madness, I know; but I am, if nothing else, a bit mad.  My new friend Diane gave me some inspiration & a link to Craftsy's FREE Block of the Month tutorial / quilt along.  I'm excited to get started on this - just printed out the patterns for my first 2 squares.  If all goes well, i.e. the Moose allows it LOL, I'll be starting on this sometime this week & will, of course, post pictures of it's progress.  Now let's just hope I can follow directions this time!!!

Ellie the Elephant, now postponed

The beginning held so much promise.  I kind of got some of the seams going in the wrong directions, but it was all good...

Last night I learned a lesson in following patterns... if the directions tell you to do something, it's probably for a reason!  The directions said to put the right sides of both patchwork pieces together, pin the template on top, and cut along the outside of the template through both pieces at the same time.  I figured "oh well I know the fabric will end up moving & I'll have funny mismatched elephants," so I decided to trace the pattern onto the pieces separately & cut those out instead.  Well, I ended up with 2 identical elephants all right..

See, even Monkey is tsk'ing at me!  He dropped his little elephant toy in the middle of them to show me what they were SUPPOSED to look like  :)   I will eventually get some fabric to make 2 opposite sides to these guys, their backsides will just not match the fronts.  Oh well LOL I don't think the Moose will mind in the least.  Now I'm pretty sure that I just have until the end of March to finish them - I'm thinking they'll be a good 1st birthday present!

First Knitting Project (using needles)

So I actually finished this like 6 months ago, but never finished sewing the buttons.  They were already in place, just needed to be beefed up & tied into place.  It's a merino / acrylic with some kind of waffle pattern (really technical) & they were... well, who remembers the needle gauge? LOL 6 months was a LONG time ago!  I found it tonight while pulling out stuff for the elephant project, which, by the way, is going quite well.

All of the pieces have been cut out, but I'll save the sewing for another night.  I was going to start tonight, but the Moose woke up.  She wasn't too poopy - pretty quiet, but you could hear her moving around in her crib.  I went in, fed & changed her, and put her back to bed.  She ate for almost 30 minutes - YAY!  Since the discovery of solid foods, she doesn't b00bfeed as long or often anymore.  Luckily, it's still the best thing ever first thing in the morning or when she wakes up in the middle of the night for whatever reason.  

Anyhoo, that lovely (almost) 30 minutes reminded me that it's way too late & I was at a good stopping point.  So I finished this lovely neck-warmer instead!  It's for my sissy-poo as a thank you present for a most awesome sister-powered baby shower 11 months ago.   I'll give it to her tomorrow  :)  Yay! for a completed project!!!  And now it's off to bed!

Want to Win Stuff?

I'm not doing any giveaways any time soon, but Leona over at Leona's Quilting Adventure is having a 900 Follower Giveaway to celebrate having over 900 followers on her blog.  The giveaway looks fabulous!  Hop on over for 3 possible entries.  Sorry, but I'm crossing my fingers for ME!  Decision day is my 1st day of my new college career, so I'm hoping that gives me some kind of good karmic boost LOL  all right, fine, GOOD LUCK to you, too!

Project #6 to Commence in About 10 Minutes!

I love where I work  :)  We have Secret Santa at Christmas & this year, once again, I had a super awesome Secret Santa!  She got us (me & the Moose) all kinds of wonderful goodies, including: a How to Hem kit and a How to Sew Buttons kit (she knew I was a budding sew... really, the name for one who sews is SEWER?!  fine, she knows I'm learning to sew), an ornament kit (although I glued it, didn't sew it), snickerdoodles (my most FAVORITE cookies!), a cute cookie shirt for the Moose (me + cookies = dangerous), baby Santa socks (which the Moose wore for Christmas), and, the best thing ever, A Make-A-Friend stuffed elephant kit (I LOVE ELEPHANTS!!!) so I could make the Moose her very own patchwork, made with love from mama elephant  :)  Did she know me or what?!  I can't believe how incredibly generous & spot on she was with these gifts.  Elation doesn't even begin to describe it. 

So, that was a whole lot of parenthetical information in there.  Hmmm... I beginning to think maybe Yobo isn't always not entirely wrong when he says I talk with a lot of detail, a LOT of detail...

Wordless Wednesday

Pillow #2 photos - finally!

So, I burned fabric for the first time; I also used starch for the first time...  related?  I'll never tell.  It also turned out to be my first applique.  Thanks to Prudent Baby's tutorial, I survived my first jersey experience, too.  


My Mimi loved her Christmas present!  It was wonderful.  I heard later that she clung to it with love while watching movies at home later that evening  :)