Baby oh Baby!

Remember the post of the new babies in our family? Here are their quilts!  Baby girl will have hers soon - I promise before she enters kindergarten!  Our  basement flooded over a month ago and there is furniture stored in my quilting room while I await my Mr. S to finish the reconstruction.  It may take forever till he can get to it....and right now I can't get to my quilting machine to quilt!  How sad is that???

This photo is the quilt top unquilted.   I won the pattern as a prize at a quilt store during a shop hop in June 2010.  It is called "Gumballs" by Amy McClellan and it took alot of fat quarters and many trips to several quilt shops but was a fun way to test my creativity! I will take another photo when this quilt is finished. 


"My Mr. Lincoln" has his quilt as his was finished "pre-flood zone"!  His quilt pattern, "eat, play, sleep, repeat" came from the Moda Bakeshop website. A design by Vanessa from V and Co.   A really easy applique quilt and so much fun to do with primary colors. I wanted it to be bright and cheerful for him to lay on and look at the bright colors when he starts to scoot.  I bought fabric backing the day after he was born in St. George at a quilt shop his other grandma showed me.  She bought some of the same fabric that day for the quilt she is making for this sweet little guy. I think that little tid bit makes both quilts from his grandmas very special.  Lincoln loves this quilt - so says his mommy and daddy!

Both of these quilts have a different look and they were so much fun to put together.  Have I said lately how much I love to sew and quilt?   

Fabric of this and that

This quilt is one that I finished awhile ago.  It was a bit of this and that for fabric and I had no pattern.  The squares were samples of new fabric from a quilt shop I frequently visit.  About 5 or 6 years ago I paid a total of $25 for a sampling of new fabric mailed to me every month for a year.  I would get these squares in the mail and as they collected and I had no idea what I was going to do with them.  I was so excited when they came in the mail, it was like a little present in the envelope.  I knew that if  I saved them that one day I would find something to do with them for a quilt.  One weekend I pulled them out of their place in my sewing room and I began to just lay them out in rows.  The thought came to me, just sew them together and see what you get out of random order.  That is what I did and I really like the colors and the variety of fabrics. I used other fabric from my stash that I didn't have any plans for setting the borders. This throw quilt now lives in my living room on  my brown leather couch and brings a variety of warm colors to the room.  I love it there and I love to snuggle under the "This and That"quilt for a nap every "now and then".

Once upon a time...........

Once upon a time, there were two cousins. A little boy and a little girl.   They were close in age, born 18 months apart and as children lived across the street from one another.  They were happy children and they enjoyed playing board games and watching movies together.  They each had blonde curly hair and strangers would ask if they were brother and sister.  They were both the "baby" in their family and they both were happy, playful children.

The cousins grew up together and went to the same church and the same schools.  They shared many of the same interests and each brought much joy to their families and extended family. They went on combined family camping trips with their parents and would stay up late and talk over the "wood fairies" from the campfires.   The cousins even went on a few double dates together in high school.  They each wore glasses and later converted over to contact lenses. 

The cousins shared the same last name, the same grandparents and the same uncles and aunts and are loved by all.  When they were younger, they were sometimes called "the golden children".  When he went on his church mission to the Netherlands she, her sister and their dad went with our family of boys to pick him up in the homeland of their Dutch fathers. We had such an amazing time together!

Like all children they grew up and each cousin went their different way to college. She went  to the north end of the state and he went to the south end of the state. They each found the love of their life when they went to college and soon they married their sweethearts....within a year of each other.  Their lives have been parallel in so many ways and now...........each of the cousins have their own little baby to start their own family.  One cousin lives north of the big city and one cousin lives south of the big city.  She had her baby girl in June, he welcomed his baby boy in July.  Congrats to my sweet niece Deborah and her husband Logan!  Eloise is a beauty!  Congrats to my remarkable son Kevin and his wife Carrie! Lincoln is all boy!  I love you "cousins" and I treasure the memories of this great journey! 
I wonder.......will history repeat itself with these little cousins?  Guess we will wait and see.

Summer...Almost Over

Here it is Labor Day weekend.....  When I was a little girl that meant the end of summer and according to mom, you absolutely did not wear your white shoes after Labor Day!   Labor Day meant the end of summer which meant no more swim meets or hanging out at the neighborhood pool, no more  playing night games outside when the temperature cooled, no more lazy mornings and sleeping in late.  It meant back to a routine. 

Now that I am an adult and routine is an everyday occurance, the end of summer means the sunrise in the morning is getting later, the days are getting shorter and there is still too much yard work to do!  Sleeping in and lazy mornings are only for vacations. It also means more cars on the road in the morning as the students head back to school and football games.  Soon it will mean raking the leaves and planting spring bulbs. 

As for white shoes, I will wear them after Labor Day cause they are my favorite Sketchers and they are oh so comfortable!!!