Mikaela is 45 Weeks Old!

Mikaela turned 45 Weeks old on November 30th. We spent the weekend hunting with daddy, so Mikaela played in the pickup.


She'd just had a nap, so was full of energy.

And lots of smiles!

She looked out the window to see daddy.

We tried to get a few outdoor pictures with my new lens, but it was cool.

She loves her little SDSU sweatshirt

She loves playing with the toys at grandpa's too.

She still tries to swing, but is getting a little bit too big for it.

Mikaela is 44 Weeks Old

Mikaela turned 44 Weeks Old on November 23rd. She's moving and shaking a whole lot now. She's constantly full of energy and is able to move around by walking on her own. She loves yogurt melts and stars. She even has her own snack cup.

She loves to try petting Missy, but Missy's not so sure about her.

She still loves to bounce in the Jenny Jump Up.

She's all full of smiles!

This is a family photo taken on Thanksgiving.

WIP Wednesday

This was a very productive week! Thanks to our first snowfall of the season, we had a stay at home snow day on Sat. With Daddy and Grandma here to watch Mikaela I got a ton of sewing done. I feel like it was a dream to get so much done. Wednesday night I taught a Grab N Go Diaper Clutch class Wed. night. I had a very full class and almost everyone got done with the bag. I had mine in steps to show, so I came home and finished it that night. It's a gift for our friends new baby.

I also finished the changing mat that goes with it.

Thurs. night I started cutting out t-shirts for a king size commission quilt I'm doing. It needs to be done before Christmas, so I needed to get a lot accomplished on it.

Friday night I packed for a sewing night with friends on Sat. night. I cut out a Snapshots quilt from the Happy Hour book and a new schlep bag.  We ended up cancelling our sewing night because of the snow.
Sat. it snowed 7" or so and we stayed home. I finished all the cutting and ironing of 51 t-shirts and prepped them to go in the t-shirt quilt.

Here's the fabric I bought to go with them.

The pillow is the inspiration and I think the red dots in it will go nicely since there are several red t-shirts.

I've also been working on an English paper pieced covering for a Starbucks cup using the leftover Chez Moi fabric, but I think I'll end up doing something different with the rest of the little squares. I've lost interest after doing about 3 flowers, so I'll finish the project I'm working on and then make these into something else.

Sat. night I felt like sewing after spending the entire day working on the t-shirts, so I sewed up this Schlep Bag. I was inspired by Heather's bag that she made in class. I made mine a bit different, but with the same fat quarters. It's super big and so strong.

The inside is a variety of different fat quarters from the same line of fabric.


I loved the schlep bag I made so much, that I decided I needed one for work to match my key fob and lanyard that Jen made for me. I cut it out and interfaced it tonight. I got the first 4 arms made tonight.

This is the inside. I still have enough Winding Ways fabric to make something else. I love this fabric and have stretched it out and made so many things with it.

This is my new cell phone case. Jen designed it for me and I just love it. Some day I'll actually make the quilt or something similar, but for now I just love looking at it. I had it made at Zazzle.com.


Started New this Week:
Winding Ways Schlep Bag - Cut out and partially sewn.
Farm Friends Snapshot Quilt - Cut out
Pink/Brown Schlep Bag
Finished this week:
Grab N Go Diaper Clutch
Schlep Bag
Ongoing projects:  (and progress this week on them)
Buggy Barn Pink/Brown Wall Hanging - 2 - Finished 4 of the 4 Blocks - Waiting to embroider at dad's this weekend.
Buggy Barn Pink/Brown Extra Blocks - No progress
Ed's Crown Royal Quilt - 2/3 of the way done on the last set of blocks - No progress
Mocha Meringue Wonder Blocks - still sitting
Jim Shore Quilt - Quilted and binding machine sewn on -  working on hand sewing.
Linda's T-shirt Quilt - all 51 t-shirts cut/interfaced/squared up for King size quilt, ready to sew into rows.
Paul's Wolf - 2nd eye, nose and face done - No progress this week.
Farm Friends Baby Quilt - Cut out
Completed tops awaiting quilting:
Blush Quilt
No progress:
Pokey Little Puppy Book
Mom's Pink Ribbon Quilt
3 Mug Rugs
This week's stats:
Completed projects -2
New projects -3
Currently in progress - 13
Finished this year - 120 projects + 12 Receiving Blankets & 20 Burp Clothes


I'm linking up for WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced!

Mikaela is 43 Weeks Old!

Mikaela turned 43 Weeks Old on November 16th. She's been busy in my sewing room "helping" me with fabric selection. I was sewing and turned around to find she had opened my stash closet and started pulling out fabric. Daddy grabbed the camera and took a picture. She was happy as a lark.

She was even sorting them for me.

Grab n Go Diaper Clutch

Tonight was awesome! I had one of my best teaching nights and the class for the most part went really well. There are always those to get far ahead and go back or skip around, which doesn't always work, but for the most part all the ladies finished their Grab n Go Diaper Clutches. Some will be used for that, while others were made as simple clutches/purses. Diane made this bright one.


Olenka made this bears one. It was such a cute baby boy blue.

Jessica made this super cute owl. It was similar to the one I made for Molly, but had different lining. She used a decorative stitch on her front.

Iva used this floral print, intended for a girl. I'm impressed with how well the flap lines up, because I'm thinking she didn't plan it that way.


Olenka and Heather after class with their clutches. Heather's is for her daughter, so she added some applique patches.

Heather took my Schlep class last week and I love how her bag turned out. I need to rework the pattern a bit, so I picked these up to make another one. I just love her fabric choices. She said it's too big for her scouting bag, but great for quilting.


She made a smaller one for a special girl. These are from her stash. She just started quilting/sewing in the last few weeks! She does an awesome job. Her mom and her both took the class last week and tonight.


I came home and finished up my partially done sample. I had this one made in steps to show the process. It's a race cars fat quarter we picked up on our honeymoon paired with some other miscellaneous fabric. It's for a friends new baby.


The lining and the changing pad don't quite go together, but I think they'll work okay.

I'm so glad I finished this one up. It only took me a half hour to finish tonight when I got home. It's probably a 2 hour or less project, including cutting. It takes 3 fat quarters, fusible fleece, a bit of interfacing, a snap, d ri ngand swivel clasp. Such a cheap and easy gift, but will get lots of use.
I've had a busy night and it's time to catch some sleep.

WIP Wednesday

This has felt like a productive week, even if I haven't spent much time sewing. During my personal time at work I was able to finish the hand sewing on the binding on this 5 Yard quilt for our daycare lady for Christmas. I just have to add a label and it will be ready to gift.

I finished up the notebook cover for my MIL's co-worker. I had the embroidery machine at my house for the week, so I added her name.

I quilted the BQ2 quilt with the Jim Shore angels and have started the hand sewn binding. I'll add the label and have it ready to donate in Dec.

I finished up the Tiny Taylor fabric book for Mikaela.

I embroidered it on the machine as well.

At Groovy Girls I made these HST blocks and have one more of 4 to finish. I'm planning to make some table toppers/wall hangings for friends. Does anyone have  a favorite saying they would embroider on the center relating to friends/quilts? I plan to embroider with the machine the same thing on all four and give them to friends for Christmas.

When I was home last weekend my little Bro Ed wanted his sweatshirt embroidered, so I put his name and company on it.

This week I made the last block for my friendship swap. I got behind and this is an Oct. block. So happy to finally be finished with it.


 I also finished the 36 HST blocks for Jen V. I had a hard time with picking fabric, so finally had friends pick it. I hope they are okay.

Tonight I worked on the final 24" HST block. Now to get them embroidered.



Finished this week:
Linda S. Friendship Block
Jen V. Friendship Block
Cressa's Cowgirl Quilt - DONE!
Numbers Sewing Book - DONE!
Ongoing projects:  (and progress this week on them)
Buggy Barn Pink/Brown Wall Hanging - 2 - Finished 4 of the 4 Blocks - Need to figure out what to embroider on them.
Buggy Barn Pink/Brown Extra Blocks - No progress
Ed's Crown Royal Quilt - 2/3 of the way done on the last set of blocks - No progress
Mocha Meringue Wonder Blocks - still sitting
Jim Shore Quilt - Quilted and binding machine sewn on -  working on hand sewing.
Linda's T-shirt Quilt - started cutting and interfacing 47 t-shirts for King size quilt
Paul's Wolf - 2nd eye, nose and face done - No progress this week.

Completed tops awaiting quilting:
Blush Quilt
No progress:
Pokey Little Puppy Book
Mom's Pink Ribbon Quilt
3 Mug Rugs
This week's stats:
Completed projects -4
New projects -0
Currently in progress - 13
Finished this year - 118 projects + 12 Receiving Blankets & 20 Burp Clothes


I'm linking up for WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced!