Finished Quilts

Here are the last couple of quilts that I have finished lately. I have two more that are in need of binding. When they are done I will take pictures of them and add them to the blog.


This one is a baby quilt that I made following a pattern I found online. When I bought the fabric pack I thought that there was blue in the mix. Alas, only yellow and brown. I quilted this using my machine. It is cute, but the quilting could have been better.



This is a quilt that I made for Camry Hintze (my kinda-sorta niece). You read right, my niece (a girl). She loves all things John Deere and wants to marry a farmer when she grows up.




This is one I did for Mom. She picked out all of the fabrics and I did the rest. It turned out so pretty. I hope she likes it!!



The black and white with pink flowers was for Kailey Hintze. It was simple but super cute!

This one is my first commissioned quilt, sort of. One of my friends from church asked me if I would make a quilt for the baby she was about to have. She was kidding, but I did it anyway. It was a lot of fun to see her face when she got it!



This one was my first attempt at using pre-cut strips of fabric.

This one Lynn helped me with, I got all of the squares done and Lynn helped me arrange them.

Zoo Adventures!

Ty took the day of on Tuesday and we decided to go to the Zoo in Washington D.C. We got there after lunch and rode the Metro into the city.

We then spent the afternoon enjoying the zoo. Really!! It was a beautiful day. It was a little warm, but there was a nice breeze. The zoo had "misters" that you could walk under and get a little damp and then you really cooled off. The only time Isaac "freaked" was at the gorilla house. I don't know if it was the big silverback gorilla that suddenly started walking towards him or the stampede of people heading towards the gorilla, but Isaac decided that he didn't like the gorillas anymore!

Isaac's head was really stuck in the dinosaurs mouth. He didn't realize it until he tried to get out. I thought it was hysterical. Him, not so funny.

On the way home, we had to stop twice along the side of the road to let Isaac go potty (I guess we kept him well hydrated) and then we went to IHOP for dinner. We had a great day!

Quilts and more. . .

One of the blogs that I love to read is called Green Fairy Quilts. She designs some beautiful quilts, but her longarm work (that is fancy machine quilting) is AMAZING!! On top of it all, she and her husband do some major charity work in Romania! They pay for it themselves, but are always open to donations. Click on the title of her blog to go and see it. Click on the picture if you'd like to help them out!




I also (finally) finished another quilt. I decided that I was going to try and do it all at home. That meant that I didn't go and quilt it on a special machine. I did it all myself. It turned out OK. I definitely need some practice.