2 months

yep, it only took two months to break the ladybug teaset. sigh. but luckily for mallory, her daddy fixed it for her. hurray for glue.

stockings for sue

stockings I made for my sister for Christmas. blue one for sue, red for nate, and green for brandon. nice and easy.

mallory helping me make said stockings

showing the backside, with a stretchy, velvety material. boy did i ever have fun with that one. i ended up pinning it to the couch, just so i could get the pieces pinned together so i could sew it. and the cutting job wasn't very pretty either. but now doug tells me he wants stockings like these instead of our victorianish ones. so i guess they turned out all right.

the stockings actually got to my sister before christmas (hurray! a present made by me that was on time!) unfortunately, her other present wasn't. i decided to make a crazy quilt/rag quilt? out of scraps of fabric from my mother. king size. that has a hard time fitting under my machine. and unfortunately, takes a long time to do the crazy quilt stitch on top. i like my crafts fast, (so why do i quilt? i don't know the answer do that one yet.) because i have twenty other things that i would like to make.

the monstrous quilt taking up the entire basement.

the quilt now on my kitchen table to be quilted. my sewing "station" downstairs can't handle this much quilt.

a fancy dinner we had while the quilt was still on the table. a friend gave us the sparkling cider and doug wouldn't let me drink it unless we had a fancy dinner. which required taking back some of the table. after i realized that i wouldn't get this done for christmas, (and it has been postponed for susie's birthday. in may.) we took down the tree early (before new year's, but still after christmas) and put our patio table in the front room.

there the quilt resides, waiting for me to finish blogging and get to work on it! i am getting optimistic-- i think i might be done with the quilting part by the end of february. though i also once thought it could be done by new year's.

yep, sewing right in front of the window. i get to wave hi to the mailman as i am stuffing volumes of fabric through the machine.

fun site

http://producten.hema.nl/

just wait a few seconds and stuff happens.

cowboys herding cats

i like ike

happy valentine's month

a tribute to a good man

http://photo.byu.edu/video.php?cat1=Slide%20Shows&cat2=General&cat3=2008&cat4=Hinckley%20Tribute

A regression of pooh (bear that is)

in high school, i liked pooh bear. then i got a little bored with it (the same thing happened with star trek, star wars, x-files, amazing fruit...) and then i married doug who dislikes anthropomorphic animals ... but now i have mallory who loves pooh bear, well actually piglet, since she was piglet for halloween. when she sees winnie the pooh and friends, she always checks to make sure that piglet is on it. she has pooh shoes that don't have piglet on them, she always asks, "where piglet go?" in a concerned voice. anyway, i am liking pooh bear again...hence isaac's shoes that are classic pooh cheap bobux that they offer at target. i was a little disappointed that the pooh bears face out from the child (one of bobux's selling points is that the animals face the child), but oh well, it was not the end of the world. mallory got a pair of Robeez (same idea, soft sole rubber shoe with an elastic) for Christmas last year from her grandma otto, and i fell in love with them. they stay on! that was the miracle. both mallory and isaac are champions at kicking off shoes and socks. and it is too cold around our house for bare feet. and they are light. mallory was a late walker, so it was nice to not have to add on three pounds of shoes to your baby that you are carrying. i bought mallory a target knock off pair last year as well. i noticed that walmart is carrying a knock off brand as well. the robeez that mallory has are definitely better quality than the target knock off brand, and you can't stick the knock off brand into the washer and dryer like you can the robeez. but, they are cheaper and they grow out of them so fast it was hard to justify the $25 for a pair for isaac.

isaac is noticing his feet now. he likes to grab them, pause for a second, nose dive and eat them.

guess they don't taste to hot.

since he continues to do this, he doesn't balance too well while being propped up to sit. so much for hoping that he would be an early sitter like mallory.

guess i don't have to make a hat for mallory, since she took over mine

the dinosaurs are from our car decorations from our wedding.

a sling

I made a sling for my sister-in-law Sasha, who is expecting baby Damien anytime now.



I almost kept it for myself. I certainly liked the colors of the fabric, and the back is lined with blue flannel. I liked it so much that i made me a hat out of it.




now to make one for mallory. or to make a scarf. i can't decide.

blanket for baby william

just a simple bushy stitch until it was big enough. I wanted to make it blue with brown stripes, but the yarn (it was very soft) came only in blue. so it ended up as just plain ol' monocrome blue. with a brown border. I thought of it as my tribute to Firth. (the town where I grew up). I found most of the blue yarn on clearance for a quarter. but it didn't go very far (only 57 yards to a skein). so i bought more, priced at $5 a skein. sheesh-- a bit pricey i thought for 57 yards, and what a good deal i got for the quarter skeins. yep, i am cheap and i like to bargain hunt.