Fun and projects

We have had a lot of fun this last week. There was great weather almost every day. On one of the evenings after dinner, Christian and I took Jellybean to the park. She loved every second of it. Christian ran her around that playground until he was exhausted.

After we got back from the park we sat outside and blew bubbles. This is something Jellybean asks to do every single day. She loves the bubbles!

Here are some more bags that I have made. The first one is for Stacy, the second is for my Aunt Barbra, and the third one is for my cousin Taran. I made all three bags reversible. They turned out pretty cute I think! :)

This year I decided to make something for the women in our families for Mother's Day. I made cute decorative dish towels. It started out being a small project, but I ended up making 20 towels. I gave everyone 2 towels. I love how they turned out! I will definitely be making more. I love anything I can add fabric too! :)

Week 2 Quilt Along & New Quilt

Here are my blocks for week 2 of the quilt along. I went and picked up four more prints for my quilt. I was afraid I was going to have way too much brown in the quilt. So this week I made all my blocks without the main print fabrics. They turnd out pretty cute. My favorite fabric is the dark turquois in the bottom right block.

week 1 blocks

Because it's the weekend, my husband is gone, all the laundry and dishes are done, and my baby is napping, I started a new quilt! I am all ready in love with it! The color scheme was centered around Christian. I have never sewn anything for him and he reminds me all the time. :) We love to wrap up in blankets and watch movies together, so this quilt will be for US. I showed him the fabric lines I was interested in and he helped pick out the color scheme. I still have 10 more prints that will be going into the quilt. I am so excited for this one!

Here are some finished blocks.

Once I get all the individual blocks done, you put three blocks together to make one block. Here are two examples. You twist and turn them so they are all going different directions.

Can't wait to get more done on this one. I am definitely accumulating quilt tops. I still don't dare to try quilting them on my own yet.

More Projects

I am trying to do as many home made gifts as I can this year. I really enjoy making things and really it's the only thing that's keeping me sane right now. Christian travels so much and I am always alone. When Jellybean is sleeping I am always making something! :)

Here are a few recent gifts I have made-

My niece Madison's birthday was this weekend and she had requested a watch. I made her two bands she can trade back and forth.

Savy's birthday was last weekend and I sent her this bag with the crayon roll I put on her a while back. This was my first time doing applique. I thought it tuned out really cute!

This is a necklace I made for my sister in law Alisa. I am really loving the charms lately! I made a random pattern which I am so proud of. Random is so hard for me!

This is what I made for Rookie. She loves birds and I was so excited I found these charms.

Now for my quilting. Man this quilting business is a lot of work! It is really time consuming as well, but I love it! I found a foot so I can sew accurate seam allowances but it is still hard. Practice is the only way to get better. So I will keep sewing away.

This quilt is one I finished piecing today. I have it all laid out to be sewn together. 80 blocks will keep me busy for a while. The pattern is a disappearing nine patch. I am not sure what size it will be when I am done. Hopefully close to a lap size.

I got the idea from this tutorial.

I made my first stacked coins baby quilt. I love the pattern! You can use scraps for a really random look. I used two charm packs in Swanky by Moda. The white sashing looks really good once it's quilted and looks all crinkly.

This quilt is almost done. It has a really cute border that I haven't tackled yet. This is one of my favorites! I love all the bright colors. I'm not sure I can give this one up.

I got this crazy idea to make two log cabin baby quilts. I get ideas in my head and I can't move on until I try them out. These babies are interesting. Each section of fabric sewn you have to iron and square up. Ugh!

I really like this quilt style because you can combined so many different kinds of fabric and have it look great.

I used the left over fabric from Shanda's baby bedding and added two more scraps I had from making bags for this one. I just decided to applique flowers in some of the corners so I am not all the way done. I always seem to add more work for myself.

Here is a close up of the flower.

I need some quilts for boys since I don't know anyone having a girl. Here is my first boy quilt. I think I might need to save it in case I have a boy one day. I really love the color combination.

I used this tutorial for both quilts.

I have lots of quilt tops but none of them are finished. I really want to learn how to quilt all the layers together on my sewing machine. I would love to send them all out and have them done on a long arm, but that would brake my bank. So I have been reading up on it and I ordered a foot for my machine so I can start with the basics. If anyone has any tips on quilting I would love any help I can get!

My eventful weekend....

We had a very busy, stressful, but fun weekend!

Friday Christian left to go out of town. It was -18 degrees outside, so Jellybean and I were stuck in the house for yet another day. I was getting a little stir crazy so I decided to make new pillows for our sectional. I got all the fabric from JoAnn's earlier in the week. I ended up making five pillows while Jellybean was taking her nap. I still need to make a few more before the project is finished, but I love how they turned out.

It was 20 degrees on Sat, so I was taking full advantage of the warm up and getting out of the house. I got Jellybean ready and turned on a little show in my bedroom to keep her busy while I went to get our things together. I ran down stairs to the garage to warm up the car and when I went to come back inside the door was locked. The only key we have was with Christian in a different state. I kept trying the door thinking it maybe was just stuck. I never lock this door.

Instantly I started to panic. My baby was upstairs alone probably crawling all over the place. I couldn't remember if I shut the gate on the stairs. I started to cry and bang on the door. As if that would help. I called Christian to see what to do. He wanted me to see if I could pry the door open with a crowbar. Didn't work. He said " hit the door knob as hard as you can", didn't work either. I started to cry even harder.

I went to my next door neighbor Tracy's house hoping her husband was home to help me. I couldn't even talk when she answered the door. He was out of town also. So she called 411 to see how long a lock smith would take. None in our area. (what?) She called the fire department to see what we should do and got an answering machine. Good thing there wasn't a fire! Tracy decided we should just call 911. I was so embarrassed but I needed to get to my baby. There was a cop within 3 min of my house. He got the door open with a screw driver, a credit card, and the crowbar. As soon as the door was open both the cop and I went in the house and Jellybean was sitting at the top of the stairs with her shoes and socks off and her bow in her hand. She had a big smile on her face and just kept saying mom over and over again. She was in there alone for around 20 min. Luckily I did shut the gate! I have never felt so happy to be with my baby.

( We now have three keys so hopefully this won't happen again)

All I wanted to do is go to Target to get Jellybean a new toy and a hat for me. Too much drama to leave the house! Thank you Mr. Officer!

This is the damage to the garage door. Not to bad considering I hit it as hard as I could over and over again.

My weekend was so much better when Christian came home Monday morning. It felt so good to have him home. He was off work because of the holiday so we got to spend the whole day together as a family. Something we haven't done in a long time.

We went downtown and had lunch at Jimmy John's. It was so delicious! Of course Jellybean's favorite was the dessert! It was such a fun lunch date.

We had to walk a little ways but luckily it was close to 20 degrees and the sun was shining.

After lunch we went to Wolf Camera. I finally got my new camera! I will have to tell you about that later. :)

Last but not least, my digital class started last night. This is the layout I made.


I am so happy for a new week!

At it again...

This last week I have been sewing up a storm! All my free time has been at my sewing machine. Here are a couple of my finished products. The bigger bags are the same pattern that I have been making and the pink and brown bag is a new pattern that I finally decided to try. (I have had it for 4 months) This time around I made the bigger bags reversible. I love that the inside is a different fabric. I have a few more in the works now for the Holiday Season. Like I said before, a girl can never have too many bags!

(Other colors in the making: black/yellow/white, orange/brown/green, green/grey/white, and another pink/brown)

p.s. The pictures make the bigger bags look small. They are 15in tall and 7 in wide.

Spring

Happy first day of spring! I am so glad the winter days will soon be behind us. Bring on the warm sunshine! Jellybean's aunt Andy came to play today. These pictures are of them playing peek-a-boo. She was laughing so hard. It's so fun to hear her cute little giggles and to see her with a big smile!

We were trying to get Jellybean to stay sitting up all by herself. She would sit for just a sec before her toes looked like too much fun to play with!

Yesterday Heidi's mom Janet came to my moms house to help me learn how to make a bag. She is such an amazing seamstress! After 4 and a half hours of cutting, ironing, and sewing this is my finished project....

It was so fun! I made it for Jellybean. I wanted her to have a cute new spring bag to take her things in to church.

It even has inside pockets!

It is a pretty big bag! I am going to make another one all by myself but alter the size. Besides a little girl can't have to many bags!

5 Months

Jellybean turned 5 months this week! I can't believe how fast time is going. She is such a fun baby. She has found her voice this last month and hasn't been quiet since! She squeals and screams at the top of her lungs. She thinks it is so fun!

Her new sleeping schedule is not going as planned. It worked getting her up at 7 a.m. two days in a row. She was a sleep in bed by 9:30 both nights. It was fabulous. Well the rest of the week has been horrible! We were up until 2 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. two nights this week. She wanted to play instead of sleep. Then neither of us woke up until 11:30 today. Oops! This is wiping me out! I'm sure it will just take some getting use to. Luckily today she took 2 good naps and she went to bed on time. So I finally have time to blog.

These are two pictures of us on the day she turned 5 months

This is a picture of our house we moved into in January. We plan on staying here for a year and then find somewhere to stay for a long time. Christian and I have lived in 3 houses in 2 years. I'm done moving!
I have been sewing up a storm this week! Lots of fun projects. These are some sets of burp cloths I made earlier this week. They are the best burp cloths because they are super absorbent and you can put whatever fun fabric you have on them.

It's About Time!

Yahoo!! Jellybeans bedding is finally finished. I started making her bedding while I was pregnant with her. Alice and I spent some great time trying to find fabric that coordinated with each other. I even had to wait 4 weeks for the flower material to be special ordered. Well needless to say I only had one bumper made and the quilt needed the binding done when Jellybean was born.

I figured I still had plenty of time because she would be sleeping in my room for awhile. Healing from my c-section, figuring out how to be a mom, and a move to a new house really set my projects further back. Jellybean has been sleeping in her own room for about 2 months now. I was disappointed every time I showed someone her room and it wasn't finished.

My mom came to my rescue and helped me finish today. I love how it all turned out!

Here is a closer picture of the quilt.

My mom is my lovely sewing assistant. She irons and pins for

me to help the projects go more quickly. Thanks mom!

This is Jellybeans first and only nap of the day. I think she misses her

daddy too much to sleep!