Swoon

Don’t Faint – I’m Swooning Again!

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Do you remember back in January, February, March and April I posted Swoon blocks? Haven’t seen any from me in awhile, have you? Well, I am Swooning again, please don’t faint or anything. I finally tracked down all the fabric I needed and then I stopped sewing blocks. There are lots of reasons why: deployment, sick toddler, sick mommy, company, and tons of other projects.  Excuses excuses! Back to the Swooning already!  In the last 2 days I have made 2 new blocks!  I guess they would be my May and June Blocks. I’m hoping in the next several days I can get done my July and August blocks, then I would be back on track for 1 block per month. We’ll see – I don’t want to set myself up for failure, right now I just want to celebrate actually getting some swooning done!

Now you might be saying to yourself, “WOOHOO! 2/3 of the way done, only 3 blocks to go!” Well…let’s not jump the gun, I decided to go King Size remember? So I actually have 10 more blocks to go!  This is the never ending quilt project!  (And as a side note, can I just tell you how hard it was to get this picture, the blocks are so ginormous I practically needed a wide angle lens! I have no idea where I will lay them out from now on for pictures because I certainly do not have enough floor space in my sewing room!)

Now in totally non-quilting related news…I have decided to take on a Home Dec projects of sorts. This is really not my thing, but it is something I am really excited about. I am going to re-do my circa 1980s desk/dresser for Anne’s bedroom! Here is a really hideous before picture – it currently lives in my butler’s pantry downstairs just off my kitchen.

The white things are from our child safety lock days (don’t need them now – see picture below for explanation). The pictures on top are our family portraits from Anne’s First Birthday, the extra adults are my wonderful parents!

The drawers are all jamb packed with year books and photo albums. They are so heavy I can barely open them so I don’t worry about Anne getting into them, plus we are darn near out of the open ever drawer and cabinet stage – thank heavens!!!

So today I will be working on emptying the drawers and storing the books and photo albums. Anne will probably happily help me out with this chore and we are also going blueberry picking again!  Should be a fun day!  What’s on your agenda?

I did it!

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So I conquered a fear this weekend. I made a dress! It is actually my second one. I made one this time last year too for Anne.

I originally blogged about this dress last May. I have a fear of clothes, for several reasons. Mainly just two: curved seams and not really being able to fudge the measurements. I mean measure or cut wrong and it isn’t going to FIT and then you have a bunch of wasted time, energy and most depressingly FABRIC!  So I made Anne one dress and never made another…until now!

This only happened because of Kristy at Hopeful Threads. She is such an inspiration, in sew many ways, that I finally decided that I needed to go outside my comfort zone for somebody else. I followed a really great tutorial from Sew Like My Mom, and it took me a little over an hour.  Thank you Kristy for inspiring me to get off my duff! (And PS. Anne will have one of these in no time!)

On a totally different note, I also finished my fourth Swoon block! Just in time to make it 4 for 4 – four months four blocks. What do you think?

On an entirely non-sewing related note – I hope you all have had a fabulous weekend.  We had a great weekend! We took Anne to our local Children’s Museum and she also learned how to pedal a trike this weekend! That was so cool to see, one day she couldn’t do it and the next day, like magic, she could. Big proud mama moment 🙂

Don’t forget to enter my TWO open giveaways! One from Fat Quarter Shop and one from Marie Bostwick.

I’m linking up to Connie’s linky party over at Quilting by the River.

Swooned just in the nick of time

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So I am Swooning Along with some 800+ other quilters. I am just doing one block a month and this month, I really wasn’t sure I would make my self set goal of one block per month. I had family visiting from Idaho this week and there were 3 toddlers running mad through my halls.  The amazing thing is that each day the kids managed to take a nap at the EXACT SAME TIME!!! That meant Lisa and I got to visit and sew while they napped!

Here are my first 3 blocks

I am making my blocks out of Half Moon Modern and highly considering tracking down some more fat quarters so that I can make it king size. Is that totally crazy???

Don’t forget that today is the last day to enter the fabulous giveaway from Fat Quarter Shop! You have until 9pm tonight to enter!

Swooning

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Hi everyone! I hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day and that you are all submitting a project into the Valentine’s Day Showcase! There are some great projects already up and some wonderful prizes up for grabs.

I have been busy sewing away the last 2 weeks…well really only the last week – the first week of February I was under the weather and just didn’t feel much like sewing. It was as though all my creative energy was sucked out of me by the cold – well…I’m back and in full force!

With a few of my twitter pals: Jenna (@SewHappyGeek), Bonnie (beeclef), Shanna (h2ogirl76) and about 800 other bloggers I have started to Swoon!

swoon-along buttonI decided to do only one block per month – I need a goal that I can easily accomplish – so here are my first two blocks. I am using Half Moon Modern – which I bought from the incomparable Julie from Intrepid Thread.

What do you think?!? I am really loving them so far. I have 7 more to make – I should hopefully finish all my blocks by the end of September if I stick to my schedule. Are you Swooning too?  Here is a link to the pattern if you are interested in joining in on the fun!

Don’t forget to link up your Valentine’s Day projects!

Oh yeah, and while we didn’t do too much to celebrate yesterday – Anne became a baker! She baked brownies for her daddy (with a little help from me)!

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