Wednesday Highlights

• Stopped at the grocery store with S this afternoon to pick up a couple of things needed for church on Sat.


• We all went to the 3:30 Advent service. G's class sang.


• Pinned E's quilt top, batting, and back together.

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• Got a start on making Christmas goodies. Made peanut butter balls. G helped.


• Happy, happy birthday to one of my best friends, H! May your year ahead be full of many joys and blessings!

In-Progress Pic

I've been able to work on piecing E's quilt lately. Here's a pic of the quilt in-progress:

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The more I work on this quilt, the more I like these fabrics and colors!

Starting E's Quilt

So far I've made quilts for J, G, F, and now Josh and myself.

We're planning to finish our basement next summer and put bedrooms for E and J down there where E will have a full size bed. I'd told her that I'd make her a quilt for her new bed in her new bedroom. Since it takes me a while to finish a quilt, and I'm done with the one I was working on, I thought, "Why not start on E's quilt now?"

Yesterday I showed her a bunch of my quilt patterns and had her pick out one she liked. She told me she wanted her quilt to be blue, green, and purple. Today she and I went to JoAnn Fabrics to pick out the material for it.

E kept picking out different fabrics in the colors she liked, but I explained to her that we needed to find some material that had all 3 of those colors in it before we picked out the fabric with the individual colors so that they would all coordinate and look right together.

We only found 2 fabrics that had blue, green, and purple. Thankfully E really liked one of them! Thankfully there was just enough of it, too! We needed 2 1/4 yds of it, and there was 2 1/3 yds left on the bolt!

Then we found the coordinating fabrics.

Let me just say that some of the shades and styles of fabric E chose are not ones I'd have chosen for myself, but they do coordinate, and I think they'll really look good together. But, most importantly, E loves them! Here they are:

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It's going to be one bright, cheery quilt!

It's Done!

Today I finished the quilt I've been making for our bed! Whoo hoo! I started it back in April, and it's finally done!

I asked Josh to take a pic of me holding it. My arms aren't nearly long enough to hold the whole quilt out straight.

The finished quilt on our bed

(Day 293 of 365)

Just Life

E went to musical practice Monday night, but we found out later that she really didn't have to go. It was only for the cast in specific scenes, and they were scenes she wasn't in. Oh, well!

Things were a bit frazzled at work yesterday as 2 out of 5 of us in the office were having major computer problems. Thankfully Josh was able to fix one of the computers last night and another one during the day today.

I worked concessions last night.

E and F had dr's appts today. E needed a sports physical done for school, and F needed a form filled out from the dr for school, too.

While there, I also had Dr. G look at F's legs again. Her skin is still not healed. He'd given us some medicine for it a couple of months ago. Her skin had seemed to start getting better, but then after we'd quit using the cream per prescription instructions, the sores got worse again. Dr. G is still pretty sure it's eczema, and he prescribed a different cream this time, a steroid cream that we are supposed to apply for 3 or 4 wks. If her legs aren't getting better by then, we're supposed to give him a call, and he'll give us a dermatologist referral.

E had musical practice again tonight ... for real this time. :)

Josh had a church council meeting tonight, too.

I've continued to work a bit harder on our quilt. This cooler weather is good incentive to finish it. I'm estimating that, if I keep working on it at my current pace, it should be done in another month.

Pieced and Pinned

I've got the top of the quilt for our bed pieced. Today I ironed and sewed together the fabric for the back of the quilt and pinned the top, batting, and back together. I had to move the couch in the living room in order to have enough room to spread the quilt out on the floor to pin it. Josh was sleeping on the couch while I moved it and seemed to sleep right through it!

Here's a picture of the quilt laid out on the floor when I finished pinning the layers together:
(Click HERE for a close-up of the fabrics I used.)

It's more green and pink than I'd anticipated, and those colors are brighter than I was expecting them to be, too.

This is the fabric I used for the back:
I think if I could go back and redo it, I would have used this fabric in place of the green and either used a more muted shade of pink or some kind of cranberry colored fabric with a pattern to it instead of the pink I actually used. However, I'm NOT tearing the quilt apart and redoing it!
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A New Quilt in the Works

For a while I've said that I wanted to make a quilt for our bed someday. Well, the store-bought quilt we currently have on the bed is beginning to wear out and is threadbare in places with the batting exposed in one place, so I figured now was the time to get started on that new quilt!

Here are the fabrics I'm going to use:

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Yes, that floral fabric with the brown background is the same fabric that I used to make my apron. I liked it so much, and it went with the colors we have in our bedroom (mostly navy with some burgundy accents), colors I love, so I bought more of it and chose other fabrics to coordinate with it.

I know the quilt will take me a while to finish, but I can't wait to get started!