Midget won ribbons at the 2012 Montana State Fair!
First Place: Midweek Original Design
Third Place: Midweek Modified Kit
Super Awesome Midget!
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Recent Finishes
For my Secret Pal swap at QuiltingBoard.com, a sewing machine mat:
130 Signature Blocks for the Modern Siggy Block Swap:
And, finally, Midget had his very first cross-stitch finish last week!
I just finished designing a pattern just for him.
He says he's going to start on it "tomorrow".
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Mystery Quilt Spring 2012
I finally got borders put on the Spring 2012 Mystery Quilt. Midget kindly told the little girl next door that she's getting it for her birthday next month. I had planned to raffle it off... so there will be ANOTHER Spring 2012 Mystery Quilt coming together in the next month.
Here's "her" quilt.
Heather at Heather Spence Designs just announced that signup for the Fall 2012 Mystery Quilt is underway. Click here for all the details.
Here's "her" quilt.
Heather at Heather Spence Designs just announced that signup for the Fall 2012 Mystery Quilt is underway. Click here for all the details.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Catching Up... Again
What I've been up to lately:
A wedding quilt in the style of Boston Commons:
A few blocks to contribute toward a quilt for next year's EOD Memorial Ball Auction:
(this is my first ever attempt at paper piecing!)
I found this awesome *free* pattern called Coffin Buzz... I only get to work on it once I've planted myself in bed for the night - but it's getting closer to finished.
Doogie's cousin had a daughter LAST MARCH (as in, over a year ago) and I've had fabric for the quilt... I just never did get to sewing it. I finished piecing it yesterday.
441 5.5" squares later, I've gotten everything cut for a wedding quilt I'm calling "Disappearing Jermy" for an old, old friend. It's a disappearing 9-patch with some specific color arrangements.
The Midget decided he wants to learn how to cross stitch... this has turned into a very time-intensive experience for me. He's starting to understand how to translate the pattern on the paper to the fabric. Hopefully once that clicks, it will not involve me sitting next to him directing his every move.
And Alice's bulldog teeth have come in. She will look at us with her upper lip all caught up in her lower teeth and we just laugh so hard. We've been calling her Cletus (cause were super awesome doggy parents like that - mock the weird).
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Obligatory "About Me" Post
I've been wanting to set up a journal of sorts to keep track of my projects. I've got some albums on Facebook, but I suppose I want something a little more back-up-able.
So, since I don't have anything new that I started today, I'm going to just talk about me for a while (courtesy of what I've already got posted on FB).
I have a midget named The Midget who wishes he was Spiderman, Batman, Johnny Test, or Ben 10 (depends on the day which one he prefers). I like to shoot guns but don't because it scratches up my manicure. If I was rich, I'd eat Japanese food 7 days a week. I can bake like it's my profession, and my vacuum cleaner used to be the most important appliance in my life before we moved to Montana. Now, I have hardwood floors so it's not used quite as much. I have 4 nieces, 4 nephews (plus at least 1 more on the way), 4 sisters-in-law, 4 brothers and 4 brothers-in-law. I was in the Air Force (Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare), but now I'm just married to it. I'm from New York (the OTHER side of NY called "Upstate" although it's really WEST), but I consider Kansas home. I go to school for mathematics with the eventual goal of teaching at the high school level. I am a terminally horrific driver which is compounded by my equally terminal lack of sleep. I am a nerd and I laugh at my own nerdy jokes. I love the smell of bleach and I hate getting my hands dirty. I am the proud mother of a 2nd grader and I'm having growing pains letting him be a little man. I primarily quilt and cross stitch.
So, why "Pie in the (Big) Sky"? Well, I have a tendency to have amazing ideas that are frequently paired with an utter lack of desire to implement them. Of course, that is, until I decide I absolutely HAVE to do it, right away, right now, no second thoughts. Also, Montana is called "Big Sky Country." And then, much to my friend's disgust, I can shorten it down to "Pits," and I want to call my (future) little quilting group THE PITS with an exclamation mark where the dot is a tiny uppercase Q. As in, The Pie In The Sky Quilters. I love it. She hates it. I guess that's how life is sometimes.
In closing, "Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took." - Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
So, since I don't have anything new that I started today, I'm going to just talk about me for a while (courtesy of what I've already got posted on FB).
I have a midget named The Midget who wishes he was Spiderman, Batman, Johnny Test, or Ben 10 (depends on the day which one he prefers). I like to shoot guns but don't because it scratches up my manicure. If I was rich, I'd eat Japanese food 7 days a week. I can bake like it's my profession, and my vacuum cleaner used to be the most important appliance in my life before we moved to Montana. Now, I have hardwood floors so it's not used quite as much. I have 4 nieces, 4 nephews (plus at least 1 more on the way), 4 sisters-in-law, 4 brothers and 4 brothers-in-law. I was in the Air Force (Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare), but now I'm just married to it. I'm from New York (the OTHER side of NY called "Upstate" although it's really WEST), but I consider Kansas home. I go to school for mathematics with the eventual goal of teaching at the high school level. I am a terminally horrific driver which is compounded by my equally terminal lack of sleep. I am a nerd and I laugh at my own nerdy jokes. I love the smell of bleach and I hate getting my hands dirty. I am the proud mother of a 2nd grader and I'm having growing pains letting him be a little man. I primarily quilt and cross stitch.
So, why "Pie in the (Big) Sky"? Well, I have a tendency to have amazing ideas that are frequently paired with an utter lack of desire to implement them. Of course, that is, until I decide I absolutely HAVE to do it, right away, right now, no second thoughts. Also, Montana is called "Big Sky Country." And then, much to my friend's disgust, I can shorten it down to "Pits," and I want to call my (future) little quilting group THE PITS with an exclamation mark where the dot is a tiny uppercase Q. As in, The Pie In The Sky Quilters. I love it. She hates it. I guess that's how life is sometimes.
In closing, "Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took." - Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
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