a lovely view

Look what was sitting on my porch yesterday when I got home from dropping Ken off at work.

All is right in the world again.

I've already used it and I LOVE it!

It SHIPPED!!!

It will be here on March 3, 2011. I'm so excited!!!

Room Make Over (WITH PICTURES!)

Monday I went to JoAnn Fabric and bought...fabric!I bought what is pictured below plus a bolt of natural muslin, bringing the total purchase to 31 yards of fabric that beautiful morning. I decided to use the top and the bottom of this pile for the girls' room. 

 Anna's first block.

 All of Anna's blocks sans border

 Nicole's blanket top sans border

 Before pictures of the girls' room.

 no, I didn't clean before I took the pictures.

 Nicole moved into the front room.

  This is a picture with paint on one wall. It's the wall without the window. You can see a small difference. That's the trouble with using a cellphone to document things.

 Green wall.

 I couldn't finish the edging until the next morning because both colors had to dry.

 finished walls.

 building the bunk bed.

 tape for stripes

 A few stripes. (We are going to add some more. We ran out of frog tape.)

 Another trip to JoAnn for batting. It was on sale for president's day. Sale ends 2-21.

  I asked my friend, Kate, how much batting I should buy and she told me to get a buttload. 

 a proverbial buttload of batting. 8 packages.

 The back of Anna's quilt.

 The back of Nicole's quilt...already 'quilted.'

 I burned out the motor of my sewing machine. It's dead. I had to finish the project on Nicole's. I've ordered a new machine and all will be right in the world again sometime between 2-28 and 3-3.

 Anna with her blanket. (She also got a haircut this week.)

 The beds made. I'm making pillow cases tomorrow.

 A view of the girls' room after everything is put back together again.

 The girls love it and I'm really happy with out it all turned out!!

I'm not one to share how much I spend on things. I don't want to brag and most people don't care. BUT, with all the fabric I bought (Remember 30+ yards?), the new bunk bed, a new mattress and paint, this project was less than $450 dollars. I'm pretty happy with that.

*can I use this as a young women value experience or project? Any ideas?? Would it count even though I didn't think of it until after it was done?  good works maybe? I don't really know.

February 4, 2011

Today I...

• Made a new library bag. Once again I have copied my friend and done almost exactly what she did. She's flattered, I'm sure.  haha Below are pics of the bag with Mr. Compliant Model. He's helpful.

 2 of the yoyos I added. I officially heart yoyos. The bag is lined in red. The color is a lot better in real life.

•  Made 1 of these quilt blocks. I am not making anymore. They take WAY TOO LONG. It's a 10 inch square.

•  Made this crazy quilt top. It's a Twin size right now. I just need to add some more strips to make it queen sized. Probably tomorrow.

 

•  Fed the missionaries cookies while they watched videos on mormon.org.
• Ate pancakes for dinner. and nachos for lunch.
• Read 2 chapters in Jacob.

That's about it. The sewing took up a lot of my time. When I'm done with these projects, we'll have 5 new blankets and some other fun things too.

goodnight!

My latest time waster...

Okay, so have I mentioned I love to sew? I could seriously ignore my whole family and just sew. All. Day. Long. In fact, I pretty much did that yesterday.

My friend, Kate showed me this quilt she found while leap blogging.

This is the one Kate made.

Here is mine. Step by step.
I used 1 inch strips. Kate used 1 1/2 inch strips. She is smarter.
I love it! I love all of them.

 ignore my messing room. I cleaned it up. After I ignored my family the whole day.

It's going to be a queen size quilt when it's done. That won't be for a little while because I'm still trying to decide what I want the back to look like.

Nicole's Dress...

I'm posting this picture for my Mom.
Don't feel obligated to coment on it. I've seen the error of my ways. From now on I'll stick with a pattern.