As Requested...Pajama Party Pictures

This past weekend, I hosted a pajama sewing party at my house during Randy's travel to Detroit. We stayed in our pajamas all weekend, because changing into clothes would have taken way too much valuable time that we could have been sewing.

These are individual projects we were working on. I am working on three separate quilts of the month club blocks. The butterfly is my first applique project, and I really like the way it turned out. I am also working on a flirty thirty pieced block quilt and a 3 dimensional quilt. My pajamas are my birthday present from Kim...they are CHOCOLATE MOOSE jammies, I had to put a long sleeve shirt under the short sleeve top, because my sewing room is cold.

Sharon is working on an underground railroad quilt block of the month project that she is teaching, so she has to finish them in order to teach her students the quirks of each technique.

My friend Jill, whom I met through the Navy 4 Moms web site, and who happened to know Sharon through her husband, (Jeff) now her exhusband, who worked for the FAA.....is working on several quilts, but brought this one with her for technical assistance in arranging the blocks.

I regret that I did not take a picture of Trish, who mostly cooked a marvelous home made pasta luncheon for us Saturday, and some really yummy desserts rather than sewing. She is an amazing cook. Mostly I regret not taking her picture, because she had on her PJs too, and her shirt said OH MY GOD, MY MOM WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING! on it.

I also don't have a picture of Jodi, who came over for the day Saturday, and helped us with the charity quilts....she didn't wear her PJs though.

We had a great time. After sewing, we stayed up and watched Hallmark movies, and ate PIZZA!

We had a quilting retreat at Candi's house last weekend, and here are the two quilts we made. We pieced these together at Candi's, and I brought them home to quilt them. These two quilts will be given to the Akron Pregnancy Services, who helped Trish during her first pregnancy. The organization will give them to new mothers who "earn" them by attending parenting classes.

A new bag

This is the first bag I have made that I have actually been impressed by!!! Sharon let me use her pattern, which is very simple!

Trish's Visit and My Project

Trish, your quilt is just awesome! We had sew much fun while Trish was here! I loved every minute. The younger generation in our family are all awesome, and I just love spending time with them any time I can! Let's all try to make our family togetherness a priority!

Anyway, here is the project I made while Trish was having fun with my quilting machine and my embroidery machine. My project is a "Quilt in a Day" pattern. I love it, but it did take me more than a day. I think the only way you can finish it in a day is if you are working on your own with no interruptions, but what fun would that be? I'd rather take two days for the project and have Trish around to hinder my progress!!

It's not quilted yet, but I'll probably put it on my quilter tomorrow and get busy on that.

Irish Chain

I have been working on this project for a YEAR! It is a wedding gift for Jesse's sister who is getting married next month. Sharon was nice enough to let me spend all weekend at her house to quilt and finish it... and we had a BLAST hanging out!!! So I wanted to show off my FINALLY finished quilt and say a big, giant THANK YOU!!! to Sharon! =)

Getting crafty with pasta

Over the last couple of years food has become another way for me to become creative. Today I used the pasta machine that Mom got for me for Christmas to get creative. I made sheets of pasta dough, put fresh parsley leaves in between two sheets and then put those two sheets through the machine another time or two. It resulted in some ravioli (filling with ricotta, parmesan, spinach and chicken) that was VERY appealing to the eye. I put a simple sauce of melted sweet cream butter and oregano over it. It was as delicious!

Baby Clothes

Here are the baby clothes I've made so far. I still need to get snaps for the onesie. The monkey sleeper is a small (which looks to be about a 6m-9m) and everything else is a newborn (which I think means 3m)!