Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Baby Steps

Remember way back, when I started the Dancing Stars QAL?

When these....

Went to this?

Finito!  I wanted this done before I left for WI this Friday. I think I delivered.  Love when that happens.

It took me an hr or so to do the straight lines on each side of the vertical seams.  Another day and couple hrs to do the clams (which came from the highly recommended Natalia Bonner's book) inside each and every triangle.  That was fun and went quite quickly.  I find that the more direction the clams are able to take on,the better the end result.  Learning as I go, I find, is the best way I know how.  

I dawdled on the quilting part of this top A LOT.  I didn't want to take away from the stars beauty and therefore I didn't want an extravagant overall quilt design.  My seams were not all completely lined up either so my quilting lines had to work in a way so as not to show that fault up!  I feel I have achieved that.

For the binding,I wanted to tie in the dark blues throughout my outline embroidery stitching on the stars and the sailor print on the back.  The Kona Midnight (?) did the trick.  The sailor print on the back was one that I bought years ago at a flea market in GA.  It has a great home now!

She measures 33" square. Will it be up for sale in the shop?

Hmmmmmm.....

I know you all are waiting for me to announce the answer to what my "post title" meant last time!






Several of you guessed it right away just by adding up the months it took to get to February 2014:)



Smarties!!



Ayden is going to be a BIG BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Josh and I are really excited for Baby #2!!!!!!!  I cannot wait to show off some ultrasound pics along the way and my growing belly!!!!!

I had NO symptoms really except heartburn with Ayden.  Well...............this time round it is a little bit different.  Nauseous all day especially afternoon and at night.  Feeling of wanting to "you know what",but I haven't hugged the toilet yet.  Hoping for the best!  I am also tired constantly.  I take an afternoon hr nap and I am in in bed my 10/10:30 every night.

I am at 9 weeks today and I cannot wait to feel normal again so I can really enjoy this pregnancy.  I shouldn't complain too much,though as it could be so much worse from stories I have heard of pregnant mama's.

Ayden is very anxious to feel the baby kick and he KNOWS it's a boy.  He tells me all the time.  He even has a name for him---- Luke! 

So I may keep the Dancing Stars quilt for now until we find out if it is a girl or boy.

Sara
















Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Keeping my Eyes on the Prize

Many aspects of my day to day have been near stagnant and they need a good swift kick in the toosh!  This is mostly out of my power and due to impatience.  I am not a very patient person as is.  Having my son has helped.  Greatly.

If I start something,I HAVE to finish it and in a timely fashion.  It's the way I am wired.  I know that if I ignore the project, it will take quite a bit for me to get back on track.  Hence,I am organized and ready to plug away at it and stay clear of the ugly latter result.

pin me!
Today started off really odd at my home.  I slept in BIG time.  When  I did wake, my son and I had to leave in 10 minutes to make it to his PreK.  Oh boy!!!  Quickly we dressed, grabbed a granola bar for Ayden and ran out with some umph!  We arrived at school with a few minutes to spare.  One problem.  The parking lot was barren.  Uh yeah.  This mama didn't get the memo that wasn't school this week!!!!!

Sounds like a good chance to head over to Hobby Lobby and scope out some things for this:

I saw a great tutorial the other day on how to make your own matte for a picture frame.  Score!  Well I should have brought the illustration done by Tasha Horsley with me I guess because I couldn't make up my mind without it, it seemed.   Ah well we walked around and took in the whole store's variety of crafty items instead.  I had forgotten how wonderful this store was!!

Back to the illustration.  I LOVE IT.  L.O.V.E.  ITTasha wrote Sara,Grandma and Auntie Kathy on the nameplates attached to each desk.  Each of the girl's hair color also matches each of our specific color.  My Grandma passed in 2005 and sewed from time to time and my Auntie Kathy is a very talented seamstress.  She once made a whole elementary classes costumes for a play.  She has also made me a princess costume for Halloween one year and countless other costumes.  Quilts have also been in her bag of talents as well! 

It took awhile for Tasha to get this illustration completed.   {Here is where that patience comes sneaking in again as I had mentioned a bit ago;)}  She is a tad busy,though, with a new fabric line in stores and a new one coming soon and kids and so on!!!!  Any who Tasha also included this postcard image she designed.  I will be searching out a frame for this cutie too!  Loveliness.

After the Hobby Lobby trip, we went home for some lunch and then I ventured upstairs to get cracking on the borders for the very last commission quilt of 3 for those kiddos of R.  Borders!  We had words let me tell ya:/  BUT it is done and the backing is made with loving care and so on and so forth.  Of course the backing ended up having a border effect too.  That border must think he's slick.  {Yes I have deemed it a "he."}

As pictured above, it is now begging ready for pinning.  Dun,dun Dun........it is a painstaking task,but it will be accomplished because that is how I roll remember!  Ha!


THANK goodness for this intoxicating hyacinth in the room.  I need to bottle this stuff.  Better yet find this smell in a candle or SOME thing!!!!!!
It will make pin basting sooo much less tiresome.  Please feel free to buy one and enjoy:):):):):):):)














This stack of cotton heaven is being craved by me as well.  I have been so busy with other things that I haven't even been able to really look at them:(  I am going to be an Aunt for the 1st time!!!!!!! I have a baby girl quilt for my new niece,Natalia {she will be here in June!} to make and the middle Posy fabric bundle would really kick it off with a bang!  I ordered the last charm pack of The Simple Life by Tasha Horsley and a bundle of Lizzy House's Constellations while at it.   All courtesy of westwood acres on Etsy!

The Pink Chalk crew had some lovely solid bundles left over from the Solids Club and so I jumped on it.  I never get a chance to do that so three cheers for that!  


Pink Chalk people YOU ARE AWESOME too btw!!!  2 days to get to me in NC from WA!!!!  Absurd!  I am excited to try the Free Spirit solids in this blue stack!!  Have.not. yet.  Crystal and Ice.  The names are so wonderful!

Catch you later friends!

Sara 

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