I’ve finished one of the twin sized quilts, and the second isn’t far behind. Now that I’ve gotten one done the quilts are available on the website for sale! Here’s a picture of the newly finished and soon to ship out quilt.

 I’m so happy with how it turned out. Kind of jelous almost!

I have been gone far too long! I’m so sorry..I’m a bad blogger. I have been busy working however, just nothing much new to report! I took a pretty long lengthy break from the quilts and all sewing and was focused more on a few other projects. Today I sat myself back down and worked on the quilts again, so here’s some pictures of how they look now.

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I see that I’ve neglected my blog this week…I’m terribly sorry for that. This week has been a rough week and as such I’ve gotten about…not much done.  

I’ve not been feeling well and have been having some very odd symptoms for the last couple of weeks. Those that love me have urged me to see my doctor but I’m really not a doctor fan, and as my symptoms were odd and easily ignored I did just that. I ignored them. I couldn’t however ignore my loved ones, so on Monday I went in and saw my doctor. She was concerned. That’s not what I was looking to hear. So we did quite a large blood draw and we’ll see what comes back. I am hoping and praying for nothing. This is one time that I don’t think I’d mind for a doctor to scratch their head and shrug their shoulders and assume its nothing. Cancer is one of things mentioned and I’d much prefer nothing to cancer.  

A dear friend of mine chose to start hospice this week. She went to stand with her creator on Wed. While I was deeply saddened, and still am I’m comforted to know that her pain has ended and her sorrow is over. I will miss her so dearly. She was on dialysis for thirteen years. She was waiting for a kidney donation in all that time. She…never got it. Please. Please, if you haven’t already…please become an organ donor. If your not already..this didn’t need to happen to this wonderful wonderful woman. So please, save someone’s life.  

In happier news this week was a record week for the business! I was so so very grateful for the distraction and I am confident that it will keep up. I’m proud of what I do, I love what I do and I can’t wait to share with as many people as will allow me! The record was a record number of orders in any one week. It came at a nice flow, and I got everything out in record time as well! It was great. I thank you for your orders and I hope everyone enjoys.  

I did get the “Air” skirt started (part of the Earth, Air, Fire, Water series of skirts) I really like the color scheme I’ve chosen for the patchwork. I’ve got the idea and color scheme for the Fire skirt as well, but life needs to give a long enough break to sit down and work at my sewing machine.  

Speaking of my sewing…that’s another blessing for this week! My area (while very messy…) was all stuffed into a corner of the dining room and set up on a folding card table. Any time my sewing machine would go semi fast it would start rocking the entire table and so I would have to sew really slowly because otherwise it would vibrate to the point of not being able to see what I was doing. My neighbor moved away this week and decided to offer us his large (six person) dining room set, the table is very sturdy and my husband thought it would be best used as my sewing area! Oh my goodness….the amount of space I have now is glorious! Still a mess…cuz that’s just “how I roll” but that stems from having to have everything right at fingers length at all times. If I could just put ANYTHING away….hehe. Here’s a few pictures:  

Now I have actual cutting space that is separate from my sewing space (before in order to cut I had to put my sewing machine on the floor…and my serger was stored on the floor) Now my serger can fit on the table, all my cutting supplies, threads. Its all there!  

and I just had to share this. Anyone who isn’t lucky enough to have a cutting table knows that cutting on a normal height table is a back breaking thing. Normal tables are just too low. I knew I had to lift the table up but I had no idea what I could lift it with…I thought about it for about a week and I thought about the paper packs we have! We just happened to have four of them and its the perfect height. Now when I’m sewing and need to see close up for my satin stitching I don’t have to hunch over. Its been a life saver, for both cutting and sewing. Had to share. Cheap fix too!  

Last but not least I’ve signed up for a quilting class. I’m very excited about that, and while I know how to quilt there is always room for improvement and I think this will be a great help and boost for my skills. Not to mention I hope I can meet some other women my age. I’m painfully shy and as I work at home its hard to meet anyone. Here’s hoping!

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For a change of pace I wanted to share something that I’m working on for me. Its a nice mindless project and I’d set it aside for a few months to go bonkers on things that were for sale at the website. Last night I found myself very cold due to a mistake I had made in my blanket on our bed. Every night I remember my mistake. lol. I had wanted a blanket that was short on the sides because my husband and I get hot and cold and hot and cold, so we like to easily kick our legs out the side of the blanket to cool off without throwing the blanket off. (might be too personal, but there’s a reason I tell you this I swear!) With that in mind I made the applique quilt a bit short on the sides. I learned quite a bit from making that quilt. First off..PRE WASH EVERYTHING. I should have learned this far before this point but I was holding very stubbornly to how easy it is to cut fabric that is crisp from the store. I will sacrifice that convince and prewash.

So anyway, last night I was cold and thought about how I wished I had more room. You see because I didn’t prewash the blanket and I made it to JUST the size I wanted it to be at it shrunk. Not only did it shrink but I hadn’t taken into account people in the bed! As I was laying there a bit cold I knew I was going to need another blanket to layer for winter. That would mean I’d have to get back to work on my quilt that I started in January.

In December of 2005 I got my sewing machine as a Christmas present. I hadn’t sewn since I was living with my mom (I’m 25 now…so not TOO long, but long enough) I tore in with a ferver and caught “the sewing bug” I wanted to be good, heck I wanted to be amazing RIGHT THEN. So I bought plenty of fabrics and by March was making Snugglebug baby carriers and four different applique skirts at snugglebugbabycarriers.com We sold basically nothing for most of the year.

I slowly started to see my left over materials stack up, pile up, get hidden away in any drawer I could find…it was getting very very messy. By January 1st of 2007 I was trying to think of a good resolution. It was staring me right in the face, literally! I needed to clean and oragnize my cloth stash. I have never been the sort to throw away much of anything, but I didn’t know what to do with ALL these scraps. I decided to tackle a king size quilt for our bed. I actually had MORE than enough scraps to make this quilt but it was so much fun to sit and cut. I saw the fabrics from the very first skirt I ever made. I saw the fabrics from that custom bag I made. The fabrics from the “lovie” quilts I made my godsons. Its so great to see all these “firsts” right in front of me. So it became my 2006 “ugly” quilt. I call it ugly because I thought it would be with so many colors and no rhyme or reason. It actually isn’t all that bad and I can’t wait for it to get done.

I started on it in the winter, and then got rather bored with it rather quickly. It got set aside for a few months and I picked it up again today. It was so wonderful to look through all the fabrics from my first year of sewing again. I can’t wait until its done.

This is completed in width, now I just have to finish out the length. I’m happy with how its turning out! Can’t wait to snuggle with it.

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I have been up to my eyeballs in quilts, especially now that they are getting bigger! hehe While that has been my focus this week (and probably next!) I did finally convince myself to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. Bath fizzies! Now its very possible that these will fall apart on me in the morning, but for now they are really pretty 

They are peach fragranced and colored. I went for a very light coloration because baths don’t need a whole lot of color. I’m going to be a lucky test rat tomorrow! The issue with bath fizzies is that its very hard to get right. Its the easiest recipe in the world but its very hard to get perfect. We’ll see tomorrow won’t we! I think I may have made bath powder instead of the nice hearts we see here.  I have gotten six squares done on both quilts, however as of tonight I’ve only fully put together Kadence’s 

I’m really enjoying updating about these here about these quilts, that way the people that ordered them can see the progress. Its fun. I can’t wait to see the finished products!