Winners creations

I finally have finished making the prizes for the winners of the give away. Rachel is getting this cute little artist case. Added bonus- the cute flowers I added to the front. I was toying with this idea, and wanted to see how making the flowers would work, so I tried it on this. I came up with the idea one night in bed. That's where I come up with most of my quilting ideas. Mostly the ones that don't work out so well, but these worked just about as I imagined them. So as soon as I can get an envelope, and work up the courage to make it to the PO, this will be headed her way.

And this one is for Nanabear. If we have church tomorrow I'll try to remember to bring it there. I was pleased with how both of them turned out. And I love all of these fabrics. Of course, they were all in my stash, so of course I loved them, I picked them out.

Jana's Baby quilt

My friend Jana recently had a cute as can be little baby. So my other friend Colleen and I got to work on this baby quilt for her. Now, we've known that Jana was going to have a baby girl for well, 5 months or so, but well, we had a hard time getting inspired by the fabric and patterns that we were looking at. Finally, about 3 weeks after the baby had already been born we went to the local fabric store again, and we saw this fabric line that screamed "Jana!" (It actually screamed it, it was a magic fabric with a voice box.)
*side note: I was talking to Jana on the phone this morning, and we were talking about the quilt shop, and the new fabric lines there, and she started to describe this fabric line to me, and how she loved it, but was so proud of herself for not getting it. So I thought that since the quilt was finished, but we had not given it to her, I thought it would be fun to get it over to her right after we had that conversation. So that's what we did.
Back to the quilt though. So we bought the fabric, but had no idea what we were going to do with it. So I was fooling around with simple patterns that afternoon before I was supposed to head to Colleen's house to start working on it. I came up with this butterfly square, and I thought, well that'll be cute. And it was. So we made the quilt. It actually didn't take us very long at all. Looking back there are a number of things I would change if I should use this pattern again, just so that it would be more obviously a butterfly.

We had extra fat quarters left over, so we pieced the back as well.

If you look back at the first square, you can tell how I quilted it. I thought it added to the butterfly-ness of the quilt. On the border I just did chains of flowers. So hope you enjoy it Jana's baby. It ought to keep you warm through this cold winter we're having!

The Winners

OK, so since it took me such an insane amount of time to do the winners, I picked two winners, and they are:
Rachel B and nanabear!!!!!

Congratulations you two, please let me know if you would like the notepad or the coloring pad, and if you have any colors you would like the best. (And Rachel, I'll need an address to send it to, but we'll figure that out when the time comes...)

Nate's bag

So I'm going to keep the giveaway open until this Saturday, since well, I haven't blogged in so long on this site, but in the mean time, this is I think the very last project that I have completed and not shared yet. It is actually the first I made out of all of these. I made this little bag for Nate to take to preschool. I'd probably make it a little differently the next time around. I made it with double sided extra weight fusible interfacing, and it just didn't work that well for how I was making it. I also made the bottom of the bag seams in too far, and should have kept them farther out, to make a wider bottom to the bag. Oh well, that's what happens when you sew flying by the seat of your pants.

100th post giveaway!!!!

OK, I don't know that anyone actually reads this, but well, here I am at 100! I only started it over 2 years ago. I guess I got side tracked with the family blog.

Anyway, in celebration of making it to 100, I am having a give away. The randomly chosen winner will get a custom made note pad, or coloring pad, your choice.

The Notepad.

The coloring pad.

in order to be entered to win, just leave a comment with a list of 100 reasons why you think I'm awesome.

Just kidding, leave a comment stating one of your New Year's resolutions.

Happy Thanksgiving!

So I made this in November, and well, I just have not been up to blogging. You know, few projects being completed, and no running. My doctor told me that I was not allowed to exercise with this pregnancy, so it'll be interesting come August and I'm allowed to start exercising again. But I do have goals--- Run a sub 30 5K in November, and then train to run the National Half Marathon in March '11. Even though this particular half marathon was the worst experience of my life, I'm really interested to see how it would be if I were not pregnant and trying to support another life.

But anyway, long story short, I made this cute little wall hanging for Thanksgiving this year. My dear friend Jana gave me the pattern, and the hanger for my birthday two years ago. Thanks Jana!

Long time no blog

So, since I've gotten pregnant, I have been less than motivated to work on any sewing projects, and so I have not had much to share with you, but here are a few Christmas presents that did actually get made this year.

The first thing that I made were these art books for Nate and Graham as well as my sister Erin's kids whom we had for Christmas this year. I also ended up making one for Jesse's niece Meckenzie, but that one came later, and there is no picture of it.

There are plenty of room for crayons, or pencils, as well as a drawing pad.

I also made several of these note pad books. This one happens to be for my mom, but I also made three for the other members of the RS presidency, and earlier I had made one for the Enrichment leader that I worked with for a year, and was released.

Both of these came from a pattern book that my dear friend Jana gave me for my birthday this past year. Thanks Jana!