finally done :)

well you all already know, but Laura's baby's quilt is done! It was an amazing process- from designing it to picking out patterns, textures and colors.
here is the finished product.


I was so happy with the end result and all the lessons I learned from it!
Now on to some pillows for my other sister and her new home!

More Supplies

Finally.
I have purchased the final supplies for "The Quilt." I have thought about calling it "The Quilt of Obsession" because it almost killed me making the top. But then again maybe "The Quilt of Highs and Lows" would be more fitting because it has been an on-again-off-again relationship. I picked out the materials...waited 2 months, built the top....waited one month, and am finally about to put it all together! Yay!
I picked a luscious green color for the back of the quilt and am so excited to finish it and post a picture!
Until that moment, here are happy quilt thoughts.

pink
:t.e:x.t:u.r:e.
cameos
beatrix potter animals
silky edges
shades of green
8x8 squares
p-i-n-k-- s-t-i-t-c-h-i-n-g

lack of posts

It has been a while since i posted. i have 2, not 1, but 2, excuses! First the camera stopped working. Yes indeed, I do not know why but it has a mystery problem. I don't much like to post without pictures, becasue I am not a great writer and pictures add the visual element my writing needs (since hand motions are out of the question.) Second the night that Mom and Laura came home ( a bit over a week now) I got sick. Good timing really, if it had been a week earlier their would have been slight chaos. Not only did I start to get sick, but Mom and Laura brought so many good things back with them, I tried to deny the sickness. I threw myself into furiously cutting, piecing and sewing my quilt I had long been awaiting. I was staying up all hours, getting up early, and ignoring everything else but my quilt. By Thursday I was completely dead. I was extremely sick and couldn't do anything. I was so close to finishing but couldn't. I smooshed the quilt to the side and gave into rest. Friday I realized that in my frantic quilting, and horrid sickness I had completely shirked all homework and schooling for the week! So Friday, Saturday and Sunday I spent trying to rest and play catch-up on homework. (You can see by the extreme laziness of the past week how completely horrible it would have been if I had gotten sick when I was in charge of the kids.)
I am finally feeling better, though a pervasive runny nose still plagues me, and I think.......drum roll.....ready to finish piecing my quilt! I have already been looking into designs, colors, and textures for my next (two) quilts so I am feeling anxious to complete this one. I will post pictures as soon as I can!

for the love of a quilt

During the long and seemingly endless time I spent in Tulsa working this past summer whilst most of my friends were off at camp, I embarked upon the journey of making my first quilt. Under the guidance of a dear friend I was brought into the joyous world of quilting. My first quilt was for my nephew, Isaac, and was a cowboy motif and quite small. After the successful completion of that one, and a laps of about 3 months, I decided I wanted to make myself a quilt. The problem is I could not find a design that I wanted. Oh I found plenty that I like but not one that really inspired me. The following is a quote that I really love and would somehow like to incorporate into the design for my quilt.

["Take my silver," the moon said, 'I have paid
into the ocean's pocket too long
without return.'

The silver fell in the wind, and the wind picked it up briefly
then dropped it. The poppies picked up the silver and promised
the moon a harvest of dreams.] ~ wendy battin

This images in this are magnificent, silvery moonshine, yellow-orange poppies, and the golden wheat ripe for harvest being blown in the wind. The problem is that most quilts that include images end up looking extremely cheese and would ruin beautiful image panted in this poem.
While continuing my search for a pattern at Jo-Ann's Fabric I ran across a quilt patter I loved- not for me though. I decided since it was close to Christmas I could still use this pattern and make a quilt for a gift (while continuing the search for my own pattern of course). So I have attached a picture of the materials I picked out for this new quilt, if anyone wants a quilt you may start getting on my good side now. Unfortunately I can not post a picture of the quilt pattern itself because it is still coming to me from good old amazon.com, never the less here are the fabrics ...