Kellies Vikings quilt

The quilt I did this week belongs to my friend Kellie. Its great- colors of gold and purple with different Viking things on it, football field and football, football helmet, viking head... She made it for her husband for Christmas. The work and design into this was amazing. She loosely , very loosely followed a pattern and then went her own way with it. Several of the sections took many, many hours of work. I did a meander with gold thread, and then white thread on the white blocks. The toughest part were the small star sections, so many seams in a small space made for some skipped stitches. That on top of the fact that its made from batiks- which have a higher heavier thread count that regular quilting fabric- made it a real booger to quilt.

Im sure she and her DH will have a fun time snuggling under it for their Vikings games :)

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

A couple years ago Alli & Kyle went to NY and saw Mary Poppins. It was Allis favorite of all time. When it came to Gammage, we got together with Kyles family and got a load of tickets.

Gotta love the group rate!

Before the show we met at My Big Fat Greek Restaurant for dinner. Chris and Kati were running late so they met us at Gammage, Derek had class so he met us after a couple of the acts.

Our waiter was awesome! The perfect Greek waiter, accent was perfect, and his name was Nicco...lol! We gave him a hard time and he threw it back- especially with Steven, it was great! Steven asked what it meant when they break a plate- he said it was commemorating the dead- so a little while later Steve asked if he could break a plate- Nicco said sure, Steve asked if he would break one with him... And he did! It was great and we were all yelling "Opa!" They even lit something on fire during the breaking for us.

Then off to the play, which was also great! My favorite was the Supercalifragilistic song (its on Utube- go watch it!). The sets were amazing, so different from the movie- but very much like the book. Music was fabulous...love, love , loved it!

The dinner crowd- Brittany, Jolene (Happy Birthday!) Steven, Meghan

Bobby, Kathy, Alli, Kyle

Not the best picture :/ But you can see the fire, plate on the floor and Steven

Nicco the greek waiter, Steven

Kyle, Alli, Chris (yes he really was as excited as he looks), Kati

Jolene, Britt, Meghan, Steven

As I was taking this picture the "camera police" yelled at me and told me I wasn't allowed to take pictures. It was before the show started, and not nearly as disruptive as the ding-dong that took a picture of MP flying through the air during the show!

The crew :)

Bobby, Kathy, Derek, Britt, Steven, Meghan, Kyle, Alli, Jolene, Kati & Chris

Wool Garden Wall-hanging

This was a block of the month (BOM) kit that I got from The Christmas Goose in Las Vegas .

A couple years ago we were camping with my sisters family and she had started the blocks (she works at CG), course I had to have it! Its sooo cute!

The blocks have been finished for quite some time, just needed to put it together.

The original pattern called for a small border between the blocks and wool outer border with "pennies".

Wool Garden Pattern from Waltzing with bears.com (picture from the website)

When my sister finished hers, she put a large rick-rack around the center and then a blue homespun plaid outer border with scallops. When I was at the shop in July they had this great red homespun plaid on sale so I got enough to do my quilt with.

I put a jumbo rick-rack (with half showing- couldn't find more of the rick -rack that came with the quilt :/) between the center and border, quilted around the baskets on the blocks, through the rick-rack and a free form scallop in the outside border. The quilting isn't all that great, thankfully there are no "quilt police"!

Worked on the binding last night while watching "House".

I love the wool- it gives such a great texture and color variety !

Whats been happenin'?

Picture overload!

This always happens when I wait too long to blog :/

The 13th was Macy's birthday. The family decided to meet up at Alli and Kyles for "the party" and then on Saturday the boys were going skiing/boarding.

Well the snow at Sunrise didn't materialize (till the next week :/ bummer) so the guys stayed at the house with us.

We had pizza from Mr. G's for Macys birthday and played Rock Band and Dance Dance Revolution. Bobby was soo funny!. Saturday we headed up to the rock shop and hiked up Petroglyph Hill. It was pretty cool.

G'pa playing with Brelee girl.

Macy blowing out the candle

Hugging the puppy she got from Uncle Greg Carbonneau

Rock Star Brelee posing for the camera!

Wes, Uncle Derek and Trav playing video games

Bobby and I at the top of Petroglyph Hill

picture is fuzzy...

Derek and Britt

Petroglyphs on the rocks

Outside the Rock shop

Steven, Meghan and the littles

Britt and Derek playing on the ice

Trav and Brelee

After we got home from Holbrook, Whitney had her baby!

Cashen Tyler Whiting

Jolene and Baby Cashen

Cashens baby quilt

ya, I said baby- I know its big...lol! His room will always be these colors :)

Nursery bedding and tinee baby Cashen in his crib

Jolene and I did the bedding ensemble.

Alli and Macy came down last week to see baby Cashen and hang out for few days. It was great to have them!

Macy sharing her breakfast with G'mas dog.

Theme for this year?

I finished (well, almost everything but hand sewing the binding) Macys baby quilt. She turned 1 on Wednesday, so this is another "better late than never".
The fabric is Sandy Gervias by Moda from several years ago, the pattern is from the book "Even more quilts for baby". The original pattern has 6 blocks- I prefer square rather than long so I added 3 more blocks and did the yellow piano keys border rather than a plain one. Quilted every other pk, and then stitch in the ditch the center. Its a bit wrinkly from setting in the dryer :/

Better late than never?

I started this table runner before Thanksgiving. Of course it didn't get finished, until now. I was packing up some of the fall decorations I got while at Allisons last week (they had a screaming sale on Fall decorations at Alco) and thought I might as well finish the table runner and pack it up also. Unfinished projects make me crazy! And until I was a "quilter" I always, always finished a project before starting a new one. Well, a quilter has many "irons in the fire" :/ It may go back to that "so many patterns/fabric so little time". Every year I want to get unfinished projects (UFO) done before starting new ones. Then the fabric manufacturers come out with some amazing new design or block of the month (BOM) that is crying out to live in my sewing room. *sigh*
At least this one is done, and next Thanksgiving it will be great to have it done for the table :) Better late than never, right?

Recipe box

Recipe box made for a Christmas gift. Its actually the only gift I made this year, which is unusual for me.

Black, cream paper and metal box from Hobby Lobby. Fibers and embellishments from my stash.

Sand the box really well, cut and glue (I used Tacky brand) your papers onto the box. Dry. Then do several coats of Modge Podge over it, waiting for each to dry well, and lightly sanding the edges between coats-the edges tend to get a bit rough.

When its all dry you can fill the handle with fiber and ribbons to your hearts delight. :)

You can wipe it off with a damp cloth but I would be light handed with getting it wet.