Busy weekend with work (traveling monday) and my cousin’s graduation all day sunday. But we did manage to do some more siding on the front, we went as high as we could without putting the caps on the windows/door. (which we have to make still.
Siding progress!
Then I spent the evening saturday finishing up my nephew’s quilt! One of his quilts anyway, the other I got all the pieces for applique ready and i can bring it to CA for with me 🙂
Crib quilt finished!
Off to the graduation – and little Fitzy is going to his grandparent’s house for the week – quite an adventure!
Well plans don’t always work out and this week no quilting happened Tuesday or Wednesday night due to a continued headache. Yesterday however I had no headache! And after work and a few episodes of Castle while eating dinner, I got to work on the crib quilt again and finished up the top!
It’s not done done as it needs to be quilted but I’d say conservatively this quilt took about 4 hrs to piece maximum, maybe 3. It went really fast and I like the pattern a lot.
Crib quilt for my nephew Jason
I’m very excited to go see little jason this weekend. And once the quilts are done I’ll have another excuse to go down and visit again in a few weeks 🙂
Last night I got started on the crib quilt for my nephew, it matches his wall hanging and I need to get it finished before making the crib bumpers since the bumpers will be made out of the scraps (haven’t designed them yet).
So all the strips are cut and so far I’ve gotten 6 blocks put together of the 20 total. The blocks are 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches each so it’s a decent size quilt.
Crib quilt
The quilt is very simple, no borders, just a binding after being put together. Although it might call for rick-rack with the binding, I’ll have to see if I have enough rick-rack.
Before heading home we hung up the new curtains in my sister’s nursery.
Aimee's nursery with new curtains
Now that the curtains are finished I’m focused on the wall hanging, crib quilt, crib skirt and matching bumpers. We’ll see what I can get done in the next 2 weeks before I see Aimee again.
Friday night and Saturday morning we got some great progress done on our individual projects this weekend already. I worked one the curtains for Aimee’s nursery (finished them by 11:30 on Saturday!) and Ryan made great progress on the built-ins for the tvroom.
Friday night he made the face frame for the right side cabinet in there, and Saturday morning he attached it and made the face frame for the left side. Then he played with his router bit that he hopes to use for the doors.
The built-ins with face frames!The router detail we plan to use on the doors, we just have to pick a type of panel to use, this would be a flat panel option.
After a trip to home depot I headed down to Aimee’s house to see her and my nephew again. He didn’t really wake up much during our visit but he did move around a bit and attempt to open his eyes for split seconds here and there, then fell into a comfy sleep (probably after he filled his diaper).
I’ll post pictures of the curtains tomorrow once they are hanging in the nursery, they don’t look like much all folded up and I can’t wait to see them hanging!
Wednesday and Thursday night this week I worked on the applique for my nephew’s wall hanging. Here it is Wed night, the giraffe is done (minus the embroidery face) and the elephant body is attached. Thursday night I also attached the sun.
Giraffe done!
The applique goes so much faster than I remember and now I know why I love applique, it’s just been too long!
I got some sewing done tonight – the valances for my sister’s nursery!
Monkey valance
I made two of them, they go with the curtains I’m still working on (one window done, one to go on those).
Valance with the curtains
Then because I won’t be home tomorrow night to sew, I got some of the animals for the quilt ready to applique and started on those – the giraffe first. This quilt will have 4 animals total.
Applique giraffe started
In only 10 minutes or so I have more than half of the giraffe body attached already so I realized I need to go back up and prepare a few more pieces to bring, other than just the giraffe or else I’ll be doing something else tomorrow night since this will finish up quickly.
In car news – the relay switch that controls the secondary fan has gone wonky and is kicking the fan on all the time when the car is off. This is draining the battery and now I need a new relay and a new battery. At least I know which relay, it’s not too difficult to get to (4 bolts), so I’ll probably get a new battery tomorrow and remove the relay when I park the car until the new relay comes in (had to be ordered). Pain in the butt having to jump my car to start it every time!
It’s that time of year again! I took a class Thursday afternoon called Autumn Gifts which introduced this string art technique. It was a neat technique and I really like the center motif which I replicated in green on our practice piece. I haven’t started the full piece yet, we just practiced all the stitches.
Class piece
I didn’t get to do any shopping this year and couldn’t make any other classes so this was my shortest celebrations experience but we’ve had such an eventful weekend that I haven’t actually been able to miss it much. i do look forward to hearing about the class my friend Sarah took and I’m hoping to have some time to work on some stitching this weekend.
Well the cold hit hard but fast and I seem to be doing much better now. I’ve learned from past experience that the cough that persists can be cleared up with my Advaire Rx if I start it once my cold subsides and it’s been helping again. So I’m ready for the weekend (well after I get all my work done for today that is – got quite a back load from this week) 🙂
In other ‘mending’ news I did manage a little sewing. I finally finished the second panel for my sister’s curtains! 2 more panels to go!
tab top curtains for window 1
And rather than start right on the next pair I decided to pull out the fun fabrics and get a start on the wall hanging. There’s applique involved so I wanted to make sure to start early enough on this. I got the rail blocks done (only 3) and I cut the matching strips for the crip quilt which is going to need 3 or so more fabrics before it can be pieced. I also had to draw a monkey for applique because there isn’t one in the wall hanging, the zebra is going to be replaced. You can see a picture of the wallhanging and crib quilt here along with my monkey and my blocks.
Wallhanging start for my nephew
This weekend we’re doing the floor in they gym! I am So excited. That room will be done very soon now!
My Aunt and I have a few quilt kits we bought together over the years and finally we’ve made one of them – it’s Japanese fabrics and I showed the blocks we did a few weeks ago. Wednesday night we finished the blocks and put them all together with sashing. All that’s left is a border and then quilting! It’s a small little quilt and I love the colors. I think this will have to hang in the tvroom when it’s finished (both it and the tv room finished) 🙂
Blocks all done!
The paper piecing really helped with the points not getting chopped off – but it took me 20 minutes to pull all the paper off the back when done 🙂
Today is kind of a busy day, between work, haircut at lunch time and a show tonight in Boston I’m all over the place. My friend’s mother couldn’t go to see Mary Poppins with her tonight so she offered me her now extra ticket – I couldn’t be more excited about this last minute surprise but I’m sorry her mom couldn’t make it and hopefully she’s feeling better.
Then the rest of the weekend I’ll be working on the gym! Saturday we’ll put up trim and baseboards and Sunday I’ll be painting while Ryan works! In 2 weeks my Dad might come out to help us finish up the floor, that should be the last thing no the list besides a coat of paint on the walls by then – can’t wait!
