Five Foot Two

baby bump continued...

I plan to take a photo a month, and insert them into the baby's album.

 Since the first photo, 

we have found out the baby is a healthy girl!   

The healthy part took about five tons of bricks off my shoulders. 

Doing what I do for a living,

 working in the Newborn Intensive Care,

 has it's drawbacks. And intense worry was one of them.....

As for the girl part...

I obviously haven't really grasped the idea,

(I keep referring to her as a him)

What is wrong with me???

My friends have to correct me, mid sentence...

I can mention, I am out of denial.

 I am going to be a mom, I just can't remember what sex the baby is!

But, I haven't figured out what stage I am in now. 

besides practically brain dead.

I have been feeling great for the most part. 

(i don't want to jinx myself)

I have been creating again, 

which feels good.

making invites for parties,

 and watch me grow baby onesies for friends,

They are so much cuter on the recipients....

 

 

 

Also trying to finish up a wedding quilt,

 that tragically ended up the size of a baby quilt. 

OPPPS..

can I say brain dead? again.

So I am in the midst of making it much larger....

 

Not to mention working full time at night, 

and being the house cleaner, chef, grocery shopper, and a baby room decorator....

This leaves me with just a little bit of time left to do this....

 

This shot was taken on the sly by the DH,

the boys really like napping on the baby bump.

why?

Don't I have enough going on on my front side as it is?

 

it's done...

the quilt top (just the top) is done....

it was fun.

the model in the picture, was not paid. 

well, he does get paid in the form of kibbles and dried bonito. but that does not really count. 

here is a model free shot....

that way i am free from paying the model his residuals... (hee-hee)

i've caught a sewing bug...

i signed up for a baby quilt class at my local yarn/sewing store the bobbin's nest. i made a picnic quilt 

last summer and i thought i might give a real quilt a try.... if someone decides to have a girl, this may just be a perfect gift.....

i like it so far.

I have almost completed the whole quilt top. which i thought was most of the work, but seeing as though i have 3 classes left, i think there is a lot more to do. YIKES.

the first thing we made in class was a cute pin cushion.

 now i want to make more of these!!! it was really easy....

I set off to make a couple of birthday presents from an online tutorial from erin. it is hard to tell from the picture, but you wrap these around a hot cup of coffee from starbuck's and you keep your hand protected from the heat.

they helped hone my sewing machine skills. so as you can see things have been sewing up nicely around here!!!

Picnic Quilt completed...

i am in {heart} love with my finished quilt.

 We used in on the sand at Lake Tahoe last weekend. I have trouble calling the lake shore a beach, any body else have that problem?  I think it has to do with growing up near the real beach in Southern California. Sorry, back to the topic....

It was perfect. I don't have great photo's of it, but I promise to post better ones. 

Friends like it, my sister in law wants one for Christmas, so on the whole it was a huge hit with me. I am going to take some quilting classes with a sewing refresher. That way i won't need to put the sewing machine in time out as much. hee-hee.

So thank you House on Hill Road for the great online tutorial!! I loved it!!!!

Olympic fever...

 

GO RED WHITE AND BLUE!! (this is my nephew- i love him in his USA colors!)

I apologize for not posting more. It happens to be my FAVORITE time of the year that happens only every four years. So I am living it up. TIVO, here we come.....I have been watching hours and hours of the Olympics on TV. I am in an Olympic coma. i love it. i secretly wish i was an Olympian. Do you think at 33 years old, I have a chance at anything? Maybe I should look into that. What exactly would I google? What olympic sport has the oldest athletes? terrible. I have four years to rise to the occasion and be the best in the world at something.

i can do it! Just what it will be is the question. 

There should be a craft Olympics. now there i can compete.

On another note, the quilt top is finished. It was so easy!! I love it. I am going to put it all together tomorrow. i hope. The sewing machine has been having tantrums. Or perhaps I am causing the sewing machine to throw tantrums. It has been to the doctor once already, and tonight it looks like it may need another check up. geez. I wish I was back in home economics 101.  I wish I was smart enough to have taken advantage of the free lessons when I had the chance. Hopefully it will all work out. While I watch more Olympics.... yahooooo! GO USA!

Picnic Quilt with rock pockets.....

Okay, here it goes. My very first quilt attempt. I have been flirting with the idea for awhile, hunting for the perfect one. But every quilt I have liked, seems so overwhelming to start. What if I don't like sewing all of those tiny strips of fabric together? 

Then I saw this free tutorial on sew mama sew from Erin's blog. She made it seem pretty easy and it looks like I could do it in a short amount of time. Who doesn't need a blanket to keep in the car for picnic's, soccer games, cold evenings at the drive-in,and as a beach blanket.  You never know.

So I began my search for fabric and here is a sneak peak at my progress so far.....

Someone else (with fur) found the fabric as soft as I did. Notice he is on the couch, laying on all the uncut fabric.

This is what I have laid out so far. I am going to think about it for a day. I want to see if I really like this combination together. What do you think?

To be continued.....