Emily's quilt and Sara's wallhanging

Here's the pictures of Emily's quilt. Nice soft colors and a nice soft batting. :o) Quilted with an allover loopy meander.
The back was a nice purple with clouds.And here's the wall haning I made for my sister Sara's small apartment. This will be her first Christmas where she has her own place to decorate. I hope she likes it!

The back with a label sewn right in the backing.

The Weekend's here again!

I was going to post about Emily's quilt on Thursday so that it would be a surprise for her mommy when they got it in the mail (she reads my blog), but then I forgot. And when I went to put the pictures on my computer today the batteries in my camera were dead! So once they're charged by tomorrow I'll post those pictures. :o)
I used cotton/bamboo batting on Em's quilt and it turned out lovely and so soft. That batting has excellent drape for sure and I do believe I'll have to get some more next time I go down to Winnipeg. I have enough left to do the quilt for S, my daycare girl. Her quilt is cut out, maybe I'll actually get at it one of these days!
I will also be posting about a Christmas wallhanging I made for my sister to hang in her little apartment. I wanted to mail it out this week but it just didn't work for me to get to the post office on time. I wish they would stay open until 5:30 or 6 just ONE night of the week! It would make my life alot easier.

This weekends plans include making bread, making gingerbread house parts and working on the daycare kids appliqued shirts for Christmas. Our party is going to be on the 21st so I've got just over a week to finish them (and I haven't even started yet! lol)
This cold weather just makes me want to sleep though. It's gotten to below -30C which is -24F several times this week. Too cold for me! Perhaps I'll put on my slippers and get my fusible stuff out and get at them tonight.

Nearly finished!

Last night I managed to finish everything on my list except Emily's quilt! I even wore my new pjs to bed last night. ;o) I'll post pictures later on...maybe tomorrow.
And now to tackle Emily's quilt!

How to make a quilt in 24 hrs

Friday 5pm - Phone call from mom to say a cousin, Tim, that I haven't seen in 4or 5 years is coming to visit. Tim has a baby girl who turns 1 in Nov.

6pm - I decide I want to make baby Jessica a quilt. Decide on a design and go check out my stash of pink

6:30pm - Start cutting random strips of pink and sew them together.

8:30pm - Decide that just plain strips are boring and think of something I could applique on one of the strips. Elephants come to mind.

9pm - Find a elephant outline on google images. Print it out and get the elephants cut out and fused on. Do a blanket stitch by machine around each elephant. There were three. Finish piecing the top.

10:50pm - Go to weekend job. (not to worry, I get to sleep there)

Saturday 9am - Leave work and go buy a backing fabric. Bring it home and wash it.

11am - Start basting. Take phone call from Mom. Realize that Tim has a step daughter who's six that came as well. Crap. Forgot about her.

12pm - Decide to make a My Little Pony tote bag for the older sister Madison

1pm - Go buy ric rac for the tote bag. Finish tote bag. It looks great.

2pm - Start quilting the quilt. Loopy meander with a flower here and there.

3:30 pm - Attach binding.

4:15 pm - Throw the quilt in the wash.

4:45 pm - Take the quilt out of the washing machine and take it to mom and dad's to dry because that's where we're having supper.

4:50pm - Realize you don't have your camera to take pictures of the quilt.

5:30 - Give the nice warm quilt to the baby. :o) And the tote bag to the sister.

5:31pm - Realize that you may just have to make a quilt for the older sister after all!

The quilt pictures were taken with Dad's camera and he was kind enough to e-mail them to me. Thanks Dad!

It's a boy!

Looks like I finished the baby quilt just in the nick of time! Yes that's right I'm offically an auntie now. Thaddaeus Edward was born Sunday morning around 4 am. He's 7lbs 13oz and it sounds like it was a pretty smooth delivery. No pictures yet but I may phone my brother and see if he'll take a picture with his phone and e-mail it to me.

The quilt was finished late friday night and yesterday I took it to Mom and Dad's so they can take it to Winnipeg when they leave today. I think it turned out really well. I just did random lines across the blocks. They were supposed to be straight lines....but most of them are a little curved. lol Oh well, we'll just pretend I wanted it that way. ;o)

I must say I'm pretty excited about being an Auntie. I feel like I should go shopping for boy clothes now. lol