Quilting Update

I am happy to report that I finished cutting out all the fabric for my current quilt! Four days and five movies later, I now am the owner of 585 squares!

 I've discovered I prefer movies as background noise as opposed to music. I just haven't found any good "cutting fabric" music.

Let the sewing begin (after making a few triangles)!!!

An Aunt-filled Weekend

I had a fun weekend with my niece, Bookworm, and her brother, Roadrunner!

Friday, I went to a football game with Bookworm. It was SO much fun! I was dancing along to the band, being silly and enjoying myself! It helped the spirits when our team ended the first quarter with a score of 27 to 0. By the half, we were up 42 to 3. Our team won by a landslide: 56 to 3. It was a great game!

After spending four years' worth of Friday nights at high school football games with the band, I picked up a tradition of having a candy bar during the third quarter. If you really want to know how this tradition started, you can ask me. That's a different story. Anyway, I treated our little group to candy, being nice to the boys and treating them too! Bookworm decided to be nice to the boys. Eh, they were worth the three dollars! Bookworm and I took a few pictures, but I can't find my cord to download the pictures to my computer. You'll have to be patient with me on that one.

Top three favorite moments for Friday:

3. Dancing to the Band music, causing Bookworm to laugh at me!

2. Discussing the idea of a Pep Orchestra and the sports it would support!

1. Driving Bookworm home and hearing that I am the best aunt! You can't top that!

Saturday, Roadrunner and I spent the afternoon together. We were going to go to a pumpkin patch, but the entrance fee was more than I had in my wallet, so we did the only sane thing to do: go to WinCo for pumpkins! We picked out four little pumpkins about the size of a baseball and two big pumpkins about ten pounds each. I was impressed! Roadrunner climbed into the cart and "steered" us around the store. (I was the "rear-wheel-drive" and the motor.)

After that, we headed to the park to meet some ladies I know. 

There was a really cool ring that spun around. We had fun on that one. Roadrunner stood on it while it went around, keeping his balance quite nicely. I was not nearly that brave; I almost lost my balance just sitting! Take a look.

I did all the work of going up hill with these boys. My legs got quite the workout by the time I was done!

Top Three Favorites from Saturday:

3. Running to the back of the parking lot pushing the cart as a "race car", then screeching to a halt just prior to hitting the car. Roadrunner's comment: "Wow, those brakes worked better than expected!"

2. Roadrunner folding himself in half with his feet sticking up in the air for luck as we drove over the railroad tracks.

1. Learning that Roadrunner turned down a play date to hang out with me!

I love my family!

Tying on the Apron Strings

I was working on a quilt all day on Saturday. As much as I love making quilts, they just take forever to be completed! I was in desperate need to create a small project that could be finished quickly. I remembered an apron tutorial I found online here.

After one trip to the fabric store, two Disney movies, three seams picked out, four improvisations, five pin pricks, six separate fabrics and seven hours of working, I finally had my girlie-girl apron! It really was fun to make and turned out fantastic!

Check out all the colors in this apron!

I just LOVE all the ruffles! I feel so feminine and like a little girl when I wear this apron. I don't think I will wear this when baking, but I could probably wear this every day! It's one of those pieces that makes me happy by just wearing it!

Since I am on the subject of aprons, I want to share another apron I made a few months ago for a friend's birthday. This next apron was super easy to make. The hardest part was threading the ribbon through the holes.

This is me modeling the apron before mailing it to my friend.

This is the picture my friend sent to me with a big "I love this!" Check out those pretty details!

I love, love, love sewing and turning an idea into a beautiful piece of artwork!