Two Wedding Quilts, Two BOM's, Two Grandbabies! TOO BLESSED!

Now that I have a table in my library/office I have really gotten into puzzles (and audiobooks).  Here is a quilty one I made last week.  

Here are my A Quilting Life BOM blocks.  Keeping up with them!

This is my Dakota Farmer Rainbow Scrap Challenge block and below, more of them.  I have many of these blocks in different colors and sizes and am looking forward to seeing them come together into quilts.  I think next year I am going to do Bonnie's new Morning Glories paper pieced pattern.  I enjoy paper piecing but like the idea of doing a few a month instead of all at once!  I love that pattern too.  Linking up with Angela.  

                                        

In other big news, Hazel has a baby sister!  Meet Indigo Avolyn!  Indie was born on August 10th (just barely) and is the sweetest angel!  Hazel is loving being a big sister (and turns three next month).  

 

Look how proud Hazel is of Indie!  Hannah and Jeremy have their hands fuller!

AND!!!  Coleman's oldest stepdaughter Hailey and her fiance Chava had Wren Randall on August 13th.  Here is big brother Matteo (last you saw his pic he was barely bigger than this!).  He looks pretty proud too!  

Hazel and I picked some of our plantings the other day.  Lots of tomatoes and some green beans.  

Hailey and Chava are getting married Labor Day weekend.  He is joining the Army and will soon go off to training.  This quilt will be their wedding gift.  I made this one with 35th Ave. BOM 2017 and it has been waiting for its forever home.  I hope they love it. (I did refold it differently in hopes the fold marks will disappear in transit!)

My honorary daughter Rachel is also getting married in Norway.  This is another 35th Ave.  Kaleidoscope of Kolor 2013 that has been waiting too.  Very happy to get these quilts out in the mail.  

 

Princess Crown and More!

Here is the new granddaughter's Princess Crown qult top.  She should be arriving on August 9th.  She is breech and will be getting turned and induced (or C sectioned) on August 9th.  Hoping she turns herself and comes on her own before that, but soon she will be here!  Hazel is beyond excited (I am going to be a big sister!) as are we!

I started this Eye Spy just before we moved, and discovered it in the tote when I went to start another one.  So quick finish on this top.   

I quilted two of my tops yesterday.  I always put the quilting off since I am not great at it, but I am now procrastinating Chillhowie so I decied to work on the long neglected quilting!

 

Tea Party Gets Quilted!

My friend Andi in Arizona really wanted to custom quilt Tea Party and she did an amazing job!  

I got it all trimmed and bound yesterday.

The backing is a fun batik snails fabric that I bought very early on in my quilting life.  I never made the quilt it was earmarked for so I finally decided to use it up!  This quilt is really soft and snuggly!

 

BOM, RSC, Bags and Lady Nellie!

The above is a picture of my oldest, Coleman, with his wife and kids and grandkids (and an extra nephew they are currently raising too).  So proud of him and his ability to take care of them all when I honestly did not know if he would be able to take care of himself as an adult.  He amazes me daily!

The July Quilting Life BOM is done.  Still really enjoying my sewing themed blocks.

                                                        

Mom's bag gifted for her birthday this year.

Monica's bag.

In 2010 with Nimble Thimbles, we had a class taught by Dr. Kathy in which we made these bags.  I had always thought at some point I would make some for gifts.  They require three yards of Pellon though so are a bit spendy when you want to make several of them.  I managed to get it 60% off and of course used stash fabric for all but the outside of the Brewers bag above.  My best friend Monica is a HUGE Brewers fan and makes the trip to the games a few times a year.  I knew she needed one in Brewers fabric when I found it on sale when I went to get the Pellon.  I used the scraps to make her some Kleenex holders too.

Hannah's bag for Christmas this year.

I followed the pattern for all except the handles.  They expect you to turn out 29 inch handles, and I hate that method as it takes forever.  I took the picture above to show you how I use my clips on the edge of of the bag instead of pins.  Works really well.  

I made my mom a batik bag and brough it to her a few weeks ago when I went to see her.  Since then I made five more.  The shells are for my sister, the purple dots for Hannah, and the bikes for Rachel.  I really want to keep the colored one with black and white in the center but since I am making another sewing themed one, I should give the one above away.

Yesterday I sewed with Barb and Becky and made eight small red RSC blocks and did the trimming and piling up and made two larger red blocks.  

We finally got our new dog.  She is supposedly three and a rescue from Arkansas.  They named her Elle but she did not respond to that.  We renamed her Lady Nellie, and she comes to Lady already.  She has a lot more energy than we expected and needs training, but she follows Kathy around (yay, Bug and Sunshine follow me) and it is going pretty well so far.

 

Princess Crown and More!

Our daughter and son in law got us a long weekend together in Door County for Christmas and we picked up this little goat for our Christmas ornament this year to remember the trip.  We did many fun things with Hazel that we had not done when Hannah and I went five years ago, including the goat parade in Sister's Bay.  We did play a new game called Mantis which we really enjoyed.  We took the long way there because Mom and Dad (now in Marshfield) watched the dogs.  We played Nine Golf the night we spent with them as it is Mom's favorite!

A few weeks ago I sewed the June A Quilting Life BOM.  Love how it came out.  I also spent the last few weeks cutting two and sewing one Princess Crown quilt.

Sunshine loves it!

It is quite scrappy. Plan is for it to be for Hannah's next daughter..due mid August.  We cannot wait!

Picked up this fun Grease fabric at a Goodwill.  The price was right!

                                                 

This is the HUGE tree in our front yard.  It is a Capella tree.  It has pretty flowers but they fall all over and stick to everything!  Then in the fall it will drop huge pods all over too.  Good thing it is gorgeous!  I sat outside one day and read my book and enjoyed the view and the shade.  We have no trees in the fence in the backyard but have two huge spruce trees--one is a blue spruce and the other maybe a white spruce just outside of our fence.  We had to get an umbrella for the table because there was no shade back there!

All Moved in Gardening, Birding, and Sewing!

We planted two rosebushes because I hated leaving the ones we planted three years ago at our rental.  Looking forward to seeing these grow.  There are already lots of annuals planted around the house which suits us fine as I do not love gardening (love looking at it, but not putting in the work and energy to get there).  You can also see that we sprayed Hazel's mosaics and put them out.  I need to have her make some for this year (we did them on Mother's Day previously but with moving we did not get there this year!).

I sewed up a mini/med size pillow case for another pillow for Hazel to use while napping here.

We also bought a few cheap bird feeders (disposable) just to see if the many birds in the area would stop at our window.  This is just above the rose bushes.  We have lots of goldfinches stopping in and some house sparrows too.  I have not seen others at the feeder yet, but I downloaded the Merlin app and have discovered by recording their songs that we have House Finches, Red-Wing Blackbirds, Northern Cardinals, European Starlings, House Sparrows, Brown-headed Cowbirds, and American Robins in the area.  Hazel and I are enjoying learning about the birds!

 I finally got a picture of the border on this Lori Holt quilt.  This is the one Hannah wants for her soon to come daughter.  I need to get it out to the longarmer!

A Whole Lot of News!

For some reason I do not think this Kathleen Tracy sampler ever made it to the blog after I quilted it with a baptist fan and bound it.  Love how it turned out.

Managed to do the next block in A Quilting life's BOM before the move.

                                    

Made some of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks before and some after the move in orange.

We bid on SIX houses before finally getting our forever home!  After we closed we spent a few weeks making treks over and putting things away and each weekend we painted.  The library/office room is painted "swiss coffee" which looks pretty white, but I like it.  The bedroom is painted a very light sea blue and I love it.  

Hazel and I planted seeds and our radishes are already coming up!

We hung my metal quilts on our garage after it was painted professionally.  We hired people to replace the floor in the living room and in the hall/library office.  We also hired someone to put in a fence.  That happened a few days after we moved in and the dogs, us and Hazel are loving it!

Yesterday I finished up the quilt on the left below.  I put in sashings and cornerstones because I thought the original one I made with my Lori Holt blocks was a bit too busy.  Hannah picked the sashings and cornerstones one and today I added a red with some color for the border and need to get a picture of that.  Baby girl number two should love it.  I need to decide on another quilt or two to make for her as well.  Considering Eye Spy a Four Patch and Princess Crown both from Quiltville.  

 

I had parathyroid surgery about six weeks ago and I think it actually helped me some.  I am feeling slightly less fatigued which is amazing.  It could not have come at a better time with moving.  I am hoping it lasts and continues to improve!  Any fatigue relief is welcome!