A finished object!

Notice how the dog was as close as possible to the quilt! So....close... not....touching....

Anyway.  This is a quilt that I finally finished and mailed off yesterday.  It's going to live at Pam's house, for her daughter. :) This project is from the Block Party book, which I'm pretty sure I bought the day we got it in the store at work. It's about 60x60 finished size, and I used yellow and green scrappy binding on it. I used lots of yellow and green leftovers from my stash, and I think the pink is Petal Pink from Kona.

And yes. Our Christmas lights are still up on the deck.

the one where I talk about nothing.

Not too much going on here that's newsworthy.  Same old same old. :)

I finished a baby quilt for a friend of mine, and I have yet to mail it. I need to take some photos then send it off.  I also whipped together a quilt top that I'm planning on donating to J's school fundraiser in April.  I just have to pick a backing fabric and then I can quilt it up.  I did a plus quilt design. So easy and yet so cute. I did use almost all scrap fabric on that top. I just had to buy 1/3 of a yard of KONA Olive cotton to finish it. Which really isn't so bad. I've also picked up a few bits and pieces off the sale table at work. But, I have a whole baby quilt out! So I think I'm still even-ish.

As far as yarn goes, I had a couple of older yarn destashs pop up, so that's 10 skeins out! (2 destashes, 5 each) I haven't bought yarn, or finished anything since my last post.

Old Yarn Total  -24
Destash - 10
New Total -34

I decided instead of holding onto the money, which is too easily spent in my paypal account, I'd send it off to a credit card bill this month. yea! Now I'm making that total shrink too.

I'm also working on shrinking my waistline.  To be completely honest, I've put on some weight this past year, and it's making me unhappy.  I found out after a trip to the doctor that I weight the same now as when I was 9 months pregnant with my son. So not cool.  A friend told me about the app My Fitness Pal, and I'm going to track what I eat and when I exercise.  It's helped with yarn, why not my weight?  I think just knowing the amount of calories I'm ingesting will help me think about things a little more.  Like this morning, they were giving away donuts at J's school. I grabbed one, and took a bite.  Well, it was a  plain, dry, cake donut. Not yummy at all. In the past I would have just eaten it. But today I thought, "It's not worth the calories". And tossed it aside. I'm counting it as a win! Ive also tried to cut down on my Mt dew intake.  I had one yesterday, and one today. The only reason I've had one today is the headache! ugh!  But I waited until after lunch to have one, so that's rather good for me.

Yea. I got a whole lot of nothing exciting. Sorry guys. :) I work tonight, so I best go and get ready.

Ack!

I'm pretty sure if the last week has any bearing, I'm not deserving of a mother's day this year.

Let's start with the fact that tomorrow my son has to embark on a rabies vaccine regime, that includes 6 shots over 21days. All because he found a bat in the garage, he was out of my sight for 2 seconds, so I can't say with 100 % certainty that he didn't touch the thing.  We let the damn bat go, because we didn't think anything of it.  Hey, guess what the alternative is?  Once someone shows any symptoms of being sick, there is NOTHING that can be done.  So, better safe and broke (we have no health insurance at this point) than have a dead kid. Also, did you know you could get bitten by a bat and not even see any bite marks?  yeah. I hate bats.

Today, we went to the park, and he fell and now has a black eye.  Okay, that totally wasn't my fault, but still. Now I have to take a kid with a black eye in for shots.

Anyway.  I've got some pictures of quilts to show you. To distract you from what an unfit mother I am.

Remember that Dream on Charm Pack I won?  Well, here it is with some Kona Bone and some yellow from my stash.  I backed it with flannel and quilted some wonderful straight lines a 1/4 of an inch or so away from all the seams.  I love it, and I hope the little girl I gave it to loves it too. :)

Free motion loops.  Not 100% perfect, but I love them anyway.

J is helping with the quilt photo shoot yet again.  He's so freaking cute, how can you be mad at him? :)
This is the coin quilt I did, using 2 charm packs and 1 jelly roll.  Fabric is It's a Hoot line and Kona Chocolate.  I bound it in the yellow dot. That was the one Johnathan picked out.  I backed it with a yellow sheet. It washed up so nice and soft. I used a light soft grey for the quilting. I think it turned out pretty spiffy.

So. If you think you think of us tomorrow around 10 am, that will be the time my son starts his shots. Wish us well.

I made something!

So last week, I actually finished a couple of quilts.

It's from the Material Obsession book.  Avalon I think it's called?  I don't know.  I made it so very long ago! I started quilting it, and then gave up because it wasn't working.  I pulled it out last week, half arsed it, and it's fine for the couch. :)  The fabric is Hey Sugar from Cosmo Cricket and I think Chinese Red from Kona.

The next one is my Postage Stamp Quilt.  Better late than never! :)

Here its is on top of my queen sized bed.  It's a nice size all finished up! larger than I thought it would be.  I did diagonal quilting along the pink and orange block. 

Here is my son hamming it up.  Whenever I lay out a quilt, he has to jump on it and help out. :) 

Quilt Top Done and some Knitting!

So I finished the quilt top for our bedroom. It's Swirly Girls Design pattern called "Equal Rights" There are eleventy billion triangles. Holy crap that was work. But I"m super happy with how it turned out. Now I just have to save up to get it quilted. I know a lady that rents her machine out and teaches you how to quilt. So, that's what I"m going to do. The backing is the light colored one with dots. I love that one. I'm not sure what I'm going to bind it in yet, but that's a ways off. I tried really hard with this one to just 'let go'. I tossed all the printed triangles in a bag, and just pulled them out and stitched them up. I would put one back if it was the same one I had just pulled out, but other than that, I just sewed. When I sewed the rows together, I tried to just do it. I wiggled a couple around, if there were too many pieces that we close, but again, I just tried to go with it.

On the knitting front, Sock Knitters Anonymous is back for a 4th year in a row! This months' challenge is hard for me. Black or white is the color of the month. Which I thought would be easy, but I can't find a patten I want to knit! WTF? So I'm going to do a patten by the chosen designer instead of the color challenge.

I think I'm going to go toss a load of laundry in, do the dishes and then skein up my yarn. I've got a sick kid at home, so it's just been a lazy day. If I have to watch Thomas one more time, I'm going to lose it. :)