My First Quilt

On one of the blogs I read, Amy's Creative Side they have a huge quilt festival called The Bloggers Quilt Festival where people submit pictures of quilts they have made, why they are proud of them and a story behind the quilt. I am able to participate this year because I HAVE A QUILT!! (several actually, but this is the one that I am the most proud of)

When my son Isaac was born his aunt and his grandma both made him a quilt. The quilt from his aunt has become his "B" and to say he loves it is an understatement. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I wanted her to have a special blanked also. Originally, I picked out the fabric so that her grandma could make her the quilt, but I'd started to quilt right after my daughter was born and I decided that I wanted to be the one to make her "B". I practiced by making other quilt tops and made my mistakes on those. Once I got "the hang" of quilting, I picked out her pattern and got started. It turned out so beautiful with the bright pink, bright purple and green. The picture does not do it justice. Once the quilt top was done, I was going to send it to be quilted and bound. But, the opportunity came up to quilt it myself and so I was able to use a longarm machine, quilt it and then finish it. It was the first quilt that I did from start to finish. I did it all by myself and it is for my daughter. It not only is special to me, but she sleeps with it in her crib every night!

So, what have we been up to???

Sadie turned 1! She got her own cupcake and enjoyed pretty much every morsel. At first she didn't know what to do with it, but when she discovered it tasted pretty good, it was a feast!

Sadie got a baby doll for her birthday. I handed it to her one day in Wal-mart to keep her happy while Isaac was looking at toys. She cried when I took it away to put it back. So I let her keep it and when she got tired of it, I wrapped it. She was so happy to see it when she unwrapped it. She calls it "baby" and loves to hug it and carry it with her.

Sadie started to walk about a week after seeing her cousin walking at their birthday party. It was like "hey, I can do that!" and so she did.

She now has enough hair to style and so far she is pretty good about holding still as I style it. She loves her pretty hair (so does her mom).

Isaac continues to love school and was devestated the few times that we had a snow day.

Isaac and Ty go to the Lowe's Build and Gro sessions every other week or so. Isaac enjoys building things (we've collected quite the stash of handmade gadgets and toys) He gets a patch to put on his apron. We are on our second apron.

Isaac has become quite the little puzzler. He LOVES to do puzzles. We started him on the small 24 piece puzzles. He is now to the more complicated 100 piece puzzles. He needs a little help the first time he puts it together and then he'll take it apart and put it together again and again and again.

He also got to go with his dad one Saturday and spend some time with some firefighters. They let the kids try on their fire suits and hats AND ride on the fire truck. He had a blast.

I have continued quilting. I really do love it and love that it is "quiet time" for me. In fact, Isaac has said to me on a number of occasions "Mom, it is a good day to sew". I had to agree.

Quilts

Here is a look at the quilts that I have been working on. The top 4 pictures are done, quilted and bound. In fact, 2 of them, are no longer in my possession (I forgot to take pictures of the finished product).
The next 3 pictures are my works in progress. I am just not sure where I want to take them from here. The last picture is my next project. The fabric and pattern is chosen, I just need to get to work.

Grandma's Quilt (finished at Grandma's house)



Sadie's Quilt (I stole it out of her crib)



My practice quilt (I learned to longarm quilt on this one)



Logan's Quilt (I made this for my nephew who is due 2/14)



Scrap Blocks



Borgello pattern #1 (this will probably go to the NICU at the hospital where I work)



Borgello pattern #2 (this is going to be a table runner at my mom's house)



The fabric for my next quilt