Quilt #2

My nephew, Cole, loves lions and tigers - I finished the quilt top last week, put the border on Wednesday night, backing together yesterday, and I pinned it together tonight. Cole is 8, so this quilt is almost the size of a twin, rather than the crib sized quilt I made for Lila.

Catching Up

I didn't realize it had been so long..here's a quick update on what's happenin' in the Collins family while we wait for our daughter (which by the way, we're at total peace about, for now).

Let's see. Bullets are the easiest, so here we go:

• Brad came home from his ski trip in Utah, safe and sound.


• I have almost finished my first quilt for Lila. Actually, we'll be finishing up the binding tomorrow, in class. I've learned I'm not great at sewing looonnggg straight lines without some kind of special foot apparatus. Thank God for the little things ;-)


• I've finished squares for another quilt top (oh, and this happened the weekend Brad was out of town). No peeking, no pictures, tee hee.

I've learned how to make pillows with piping around the edges, and window treatments. The pillow is a surprise for someone, so no pictures for that one, either. But, here are my first panels.

We went to Tiffany and Warren's house last weekend for dinner..and we were over late enough to play with their Sugar Gliders! I need to get pictures, but they are nocturnal, so I think it might just be cruel to flash them.

And, then there was Valentine's Day. Bradley brought these beautiful flowers home that he hand picked himself from a market - but he brought them home as a surprise the night before Vday. Wasn't that sweet?

I've been very busy working with the real estate business, too.

Oh, and...my sister in law (Brad's sister, Julie), and my nephew (Julie's son), are coming into town tomorrow. They are coming to visit for a week. I'm very excited - they haven't been down to visit since we moved, and we are taking Cole to Disney, Sea World, the Lowry Park Zoo, maybe the Big Cat Rescue, and probably the beach (even if it is just to get his, not my, feet wet..bbrrr!) I bet Cole will also want to get in our pool... eek!

Sneak-a-peek #2

Class #2... we finished our blocks and sewed them all together, and started adding the borders.

Here's the quilt top... our next two classes, we will put the quilt together and add the binding.

I hope Lila loves it!!

Oh, a Quiltin' We Will Go!

I have our 100 Good Wishes Quilt for Kylie Grace to attribute to my new found love of quilting. Remember, dear hubby gave me a wonderous sewing machine for Christmas (of which, thank you, Anne, for your help:). And, the big joke was that either my sewing machine was going to collect dust, OR, I was going to be the Sewing Queen. Well, I wouldn't say I am the Sewing Queen just yet, but darn if I am getting close (hehe)! Anyway, I attempted a little fun project just after Christmas. I thought for sure I was doomed, and it just wasn't meant to be. But, then, I decided to take a quilting class, and my first project was going to be a quilt for Lila (our friends Jen and Scott's soon to be daughter from China..well, not SO soon, but hopefully sooner than all the nasty rumors are expecting). So, today was the day I started my class at KMIS - just around the corner from my house. Anywho, here is a sneak-a-peek to the start of Lila's nine patch quilt.
And, guess what, we have homework we must complete before our next class on Friday of next week. I asked the instructor, Linda, (just leave it to me to be the talkative one) if she had a 24 hour hotline for assistance in case of emergency.

My first quit block

Front Back

Don't laugh, but here it is. I was just dying to put my new sewing machine to work and begin to explore the world of quilting. What I learned?? That piecing is much harder than it looks. I cut the strips, sewed them together (with the help of my first quilting book that Anne helped me pick out, thank goodness), and voila, I had several pieces that didn't even come close to being the same size. So, I had to really work to get them together! A little crooked, but it's a start!