Snow Days = Quilt Daze

My little guy turned 3. THREE!!! I just can't believe that my first born is growing up so quickly. Everyone said that it goes by fast and it sure is flying by. We had a little party for him at Acres of Fun with some close friends and family. The kids had a blast and the parents were exhausted after 2 hours of total fun madness!!! Great times....

Onto quilting news... I joined Fat Quarter Shop's "Civil War Chronicles" BOM and my very first one arrived today!!! YAY!!! Here's a peek at my package today: I want to start on the BOM, but I have this project all ready (and washed) to cut and piece for a Christmas quilt. This particular quilt is going to be MINE - I'm not giving it to anyone!!!
So much to do and so little time with a now 3 year old and a 1 year old. AND I have the Frolic quilt to ripstitch and hand quilt. Good thing everyday is cold and snowy right now, I'm getting more accomplished!!!

In a funk.

I didn't get the Frolic quilt finished. In fact, I practiced machine quilting on scraps for a week and I finally sat down with the real thing and botched it up. On a scale from 1-10, I would rate it a 4. And I didn't finish because I was so disappointed. So I gave Ariana some other gifts that she loved and in the mean time, I'll be ripstitching the quilt and doing it by hand so that it will be ready for the new little bundle in March. I love becoming an auntie, it's SO much FUN!
On the farm front, not much happening because it's the middle of January. We've had really low temps this year and all of this snow has stuck around for a long time! I snapped these pictures a few days ago - I thought it was SO pretty out with a light layer of fog covered the farm in the morning...

The sun rising in the east...

Back to the grind now... A.J.'s 3rd birthday is on Friday and Miss Izzy is starting to walk!!! How quickly time slips by...

Quilt for my niece or nephew

I finished a quilt top last night, it's the first one in over a year! I'm giving it as a baby shower gift to my sister in law next Sunday. I went outside to take a picture of my quilt top and saw an Amish buggy riding by.... (They didn't see me and if they did, I hope they are not offended if they saw me snapping my camera in their direction.)

The quilt is "Frolic" by Sandy Gervais. I have been gazing at this quilt for several months now at the Fat Quarter Shop online - wishing I had someone to make it for as a gift.

Well, what do you know? My sister in law, Ariana told me that she is decorating the babies room with owls... so a light went of in my head and I bought the kit right away and got to work. Now I have to machine quilt it in 7 days!!! Well, I'm inspired and determind to finish it!!! (fingers crossed!)

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Is it weird?

Is it weird that it is January 5th and I haven't taken my tree down? I love it so much because of the wonderful memories it brings.... thank goodness I captured these moments.

I can't believe it's over.... and now I'm looking at quilt projects for 2011!!! I just cut out "Frolic" by Sandy Gervais. I'm making it as a baby shower gift - pics soon!!!

It's been a while...

I know I've broken the cardinal rule of blogging by NOT posting often enough. I have no excuse except a busy life. But now that I have an organized office, I'm going to do my best to get back into the swing of it!!! Plus I have a ton of projects coming up....

Here are the pictures of the chesnuts I promised:
This prickly fellow is quite sharp - do not pick it up or step on it without shoes or gloves.

We had a pretty dry summer and these guys ripened early.

You must wait for these little guys to drop on their own.

When they start dropping, look out!

A.J. was a little timid to eat one...

But someone else ate like a king for two weeks.

On the farm

Here are some recent pictures on the farm...

It's September 22nd - and new flowers on our cherry tree?

Who needs sand when you have corn?

Here comes the rain...


After playing in the rain...

Hello pumpkin, you are going to be pie soon...

1st mum to start blooming!!!!

I'm pretty impressed with my pictures today - next post will be about our chestnuts...

Quilting Project "Garden Club"

Since I've had my babies, I haven't had time to quilt. I miss it so much and I've decided to finish all of my projects this winter. Well, at least get the tops done - I'm talking probably around 10 projects!!! Speaking of projects, the biggest project of all is cleaning out the junk room where all my quilt projects/supplies along with all the other junk we shoved in there when we moved. I have a huge weekend ahead of me if I want to get this done. Here are pictures of one square from the Garden Club.

I use Janome machines and my favorite style is machine applique embroidery.

I love the detail...

I want to start quilting now....

I wish I had more time in the day. Such is life...