Summer Quilting

 This Summer was a busy Summer when it came to making quilts.  Jon's Niece and his Nephew were both getting married and one of my cousin's. I've always made quilts for my family that gets married and I wanted to do something a little more special.  

I made this quilt first.  I have done chevrons before but smaller, but I really liked how the bigger size turned out.

I quilted this one by hand with a little help from my Carly.

I finished just in the nick of time.  I love how it turned out.

The next wedding was Jon's nephew just a month later.  I used the same pattern, just different colors.

I put it on the frames with plans to do a modified version of hand quilting/tying, but soon figured out that I was never going to finish on time.  Jon and I were talking about my options as far as having it machine quilted and just for curiosity looked up machines for sell. 

We happen to see this Mid arm machine with frames for a great price, and before I knew it. we were setting it up in the living room.  It took me some practice, but I final got the hang of it.

I can't do much more than a meandering pattern, but I really like how it turned out.  

I had a little break before I had to do my next quilt, so I took the chance to practice and finished a top I had laying around to leave up at the cabin.

Next up was the quilt for my cousin.  For this I did a trip around the world pattern that is a favorite of mine.  but rather than tying it like I normally would I decided to machine quilt it.

I still had one more wedding quilt to do for the little sister of my bst friend, who I've known since she was little.  For her I also did the trip around the world design, but I had put my machine away for a bit and did the international stitch.  My mom came and helped, and I love how it turned out.  So did the bride. 

Carly also decided to get some quilting done and finished a quilt she had been working on for quite a while.

I'm very proud of my little quilter.

In the past few months I've also done a few baby quilts for friends.  I'm getting better at quilting on my regular machine too.

This last quilt is just a top I did out of random red white and blue scraps I had.  I'm hoping to get my quilt machine out again in a few months and finish it and some other tops I have hanging around.

Sew.......

  The other I spent some time with my nephew who is totally crazy for Curious George and I remember I had some fabric with George on it, so I made him a blanket.

I think he likes it.  I sure love him!

Better Late than never.........Halloween

It has been one heck of a month, but here are our Halloween pictures, finally!

My Little snow princess and a pirate.

 I had lots of fun making this one and it turned out better than I imagined

 AArhg, I love my little pirate

 Brianna's class

 Carly in the parade.

Atticus and Henry came to trick or treat with us.  We had a very fun Halloween.

4th of July Fun

We had lots of fun this 4th of July weekend.


We started it off going fishing on Saturday at a local pond. We didn't catch anything, but we still had fun.

Sunday we met up with our cousins at Grandma's pool for some swimming.

I love making fun outfits for the girls for the holiday. These were done at the last minute but turned out so cute.

It wouldn't be the 4th with out a BBQ with our family. Here are all the cousins.

Carly and Zoe are 6 months apart in age and are BFFs Carly gave Zoe a friendship necklace.

They are inseparable.

My sister live near a city park that puts on a firework show so we always go there to get our fix.

Sparklers.

Our whole crew watching the show.

We had such a fun holiday. We hope you did too!

Some early Easter fun

We had our family Easter party early this year. We started out by dyeing eggs.

Henry wasn't very interested.
After we dyed eggs we went outside to hunt for some. It was drizzling rain but they had fun anyway.

They all got lots of fun stuff.Three little sweethearts in matching dresses.

We had all the kids sleepover. The next morning they decided to have a tea party.Such fun. We love our cousins.

We hope you all have a lovely Easter.

Best part of Easter

Every year when we were little my mom made my sister and I matching Easter dresses. They were my favorite part of Easter and still are. I kept having second thoughts about the fabric I chose for these dresses, but in the end they turned out so cute. They are knit tank dresses so they can wear them all summer. I'm not usually a fan of shrugs, but these really make the outfit.

We took the girls to hear my mom sing the Rutter requiem. It is one of my favorite pieces of music, and it was beautiful. Even though Jon is not a fan, he and the girls came with. There weren't very many kids there and every one there was so impressed with how well behaved the girls were. I'm glad they enjoy good music. We also got stopped and told how cute they were. I agree! It was a really lovely evening.