First Quilt block for "Quilting Newbees" for Sarah

This is a log cabin quilt block. I had lots of fun making this, I think there is a log cabin quilt in store for the Petty household (someday!) I swear I ironed it, the natural light makes it look a little wrinkley, oh well. Block number 2 is in progress, maybe done today?!?

Spring is here!...for now

This is what we did today! Tonight there's a snow storm rolling in...

Quilt top

Here it is my very first official quilt top! I have made a couple in the past, but not the correct way I guess?!? Anyways, I pretty much love it, it turned out pretty cute I think. It is for my 21 month old, so she's not too picky yet...she probably won't really use it either until she's in her "big girl" bed. The next step is making a quilt sandwich with the batting and the backing. After that (I'm a bit behind) is the machine quilting, I'm a little scared of this step, wish me luck! I joined an online quilting bee too and I think it's going to be lots of fun, I'm pretty excited! Yes, my husband calls me grandma (partly because I love sweaters, I know I don't get it either) but he knows that I've always loved doing creative stuff so he knows what he got into when he married me! He makes me laugh all the time, and at least I can laugh at myself!

some projects

So I know I should really probably blog in order of events and such, but that's not how I roll I guess ( I'm the same way with scrap booking.) Anyways, I wanted to document some the fun projects I've been working on.

First the Emmeline apron, oh the apron! My sister Chrissy made this wonderful apron for me back in May after I saw the pattern on her sewing desk and knew I had to have it! We headed to Joann's and I picked out the fabric, then a few weeks later I had a lovely package in the mail from her. Yes, my sister's pretty dang cool! Well my friend Claire saw it and thought it was awesome as well. Claire is our friend Rays girlfriend and she has babysat for us so many times and she NEVER lets us pay her. So for Christmas I thought I would whip one up for her, yay right whip! She just barely received her completed apron a week ago...my bad! I can't even count the number of times I was seam ripping on the bodice piece! Anyways, I'm so glad it's done, and I'm pretty happy with results (just don't look too closely!)

Now I'm on to my next project...a quilt! I'm doing a quilt a long, following another blog. We do a different step each week, I thought it would be a good way to learn how to quilt, and it's a lot of fun. So far I've got it all cut out, but sometime this week I need to sew it together. I'm waiting on a new sewing machine (hopefully it shows up today!!!), then I will get that step done! I will post my progess as I get going on it!

Some Christmas fun

I love the tradition of making gingerbread houses so we invited uncle Chris to make "gingerbread" houses with us. I think he had just as much fun as Lucy creating his house. I wasn't very well prepared, so our poor houses have flat roofs and Lucy's collapsed because the dumb store bought frosting was too soft. Next year I will be making homemade frosting and possibly making real gingerbread for the houses...maybe. Kate just hung out and watched the process. Next year we'll let her join in the chaos of it! Things were getting a little messy, I went downstairs for a minute, come back up and Lucy is reaching her hands into the frosting bucket. She has uncle Chris wrapped around her finger so he was just letting the mess unfold! Anyways it was lots of fun!