Something finally done!


It feels like forever since I finished something! Here is a little baby quilt I made for a friend's new little boy. He is actually 6 weeks old today, so I am a little late finishing this project. I got a little waylayed in May with everything that went on.
The inspiration was here. The person that made this one, however did hand applique. I don't have that kind of time, so I did machine applique. I apologize for the poor pictures. My camera always seems to capture this color of blue weird. It always looks greener than it actually is. It is really more of a baby blue bordering on aqua.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Boogit N Lulus Fabric Corner

I started a new page to list my extra fabric for sale. Check it out at Boogit N Lulu's Fabric Corner From time to time I order fabric by the bolt. Sometimes I have extra that I do not plan to use, so I'll list it for sale at Boogit N Lulu's. This is high quality cotton fabric new from the bolt. I currently have 3 prints available from Studio E fabrics.

Does your car need a quilt?



This gave me a giggle today. Is this what happens when you run out of people to give them to? :)

Have a great weekend!

Great Photography!



Here is a link to some pictures of my step-great nephews done by Angela Weedon of Dallas, TX. My brother's wife has a daughter from her first marriage and these are her boys. So very cute!

WIP



Here is a little project I got a bit way-laid on. I apologize that this isn't the greatest picture. I snapped it quick in my living room. My inspiration is here. I am hoping to finish it very soon. I am debating a white border on it. It seems large for a baby quilt already, but it also seems sort of long and narrow. Right now it is 32x52. Would you add any border to it? Should I leave it as is, or maybe just do a couple of strips down the sides and leave the ends as they are. For some reason it looked more square on paper, LOL. I am also debating a backing fabric. Thinking of maybe backing it with minkee or flannel since it is a baby quilt. Not sure how the minkee would quilt, though. So furry and stretchy, you know? Kinda don't enjoy working with that stuff, but it does make for a nice baby blankee. Or maybe just more of the blue dots?

Pondering...


Recent events in my life have caused me to really want to step back and evaluate how I am spending my time and energy. Am I really doing anything that matters? How am I touching the lives of other people? Do I want to continue selling my kids clothes? How do I find a balance in all that I want to and/or should be doing? Do I take a break from selling to do other things for a while?

The answer is that I don't have an answer.

I really love making kids clothes and selling them and I am finally starting to build a bit of a following which has taken a long time and a lot of effort. I have finally begun to actually sell a few things. Do I then put all of that on hiatus and risk losing what I have worked to build?

At the same time, I feel like it is stealing all of the time that I want to put into other things. Other creative efforts like knitting and crocheting and quilting have really taken a back seat. I really want to experiment with photography a bit, too. Projects that I have wanted to do around my house have been put off indefinitely because I feel like I "need" to keep up with all of these ebay launches in order to keep my stuff out there. I want to have time to make things for charities and to donate to different causes, but I feel like all of this time is sucked up, too.

I have been pondering the idea of natural gifts like the ability to be creative and spiritual gifts as defined in Scripture and wondering how to really combine the two. Both are God given and it just seems that they should work in conjunction with each other, but I haven't figured out what that means or how to do that yet. I don't know if I ever will, but it bears exploring. I definitely think that God as the Master Creator, though, would scrutinize every element of His creation, just as an artist or a designer would do to make deliberate choices of things that work together in a particular composition. I just haven't figured out how mine work together yet. I think if I ever do, I will have more answers to the questions that I have been pondering.

A gift for Isabel



First of all I want to apologize for my extended absence. Life has really thrown me some curves over the last year or so and my blogging has really been sporadic at best. At times I have felt that I just have nothing interesting to say, other times I have intended to share things, but been just too busy with other things, and at other times I just have been too emotionally drained to feel like blogging. It has certainly been a time both of opportunity and challenge.

Most recently the challenge that I have had to face is the death of my mother. She passed away on May 12th after an extended period of ill health. I am torn between missing her terribly, and rejoicing that she is no longer suffering and is in the presence of Jesus. Something that is truly beyond extraordinary.

My mom was a giver. It was part of her nature from the get go. She loved to make guests welcome in her home. Whenever us kids came home, she wanted everything to be perfect for us. She loved to give gifts to people. She loved to crochet and did some sewing as well. She is the one who taught me how to sew when I was in junior high. She always tried to have hand crocheted baby gifts on hand. She usually always had one boy and one girl gift ready to go for the next new arrival. In her last few years, even though it became increasingly difficult for her, she still tried to bless each new baby with a hand crocheted gift. The dress you see at the top of this post is her last effort to crochet a gift. It was intended for a little baby girl named Isabel. Mom's health was declining rapidly when she began work on this dress. She told me many times about how she was struggling to finish it. She was worried that she would never finish it and that little Isabel would never receive the dress. It was evident that this was really a concern for her.

Mom never got to finish the dress.

I took it upon myself to make sure that this wish of my mom's came true. Mom had nearly finished all of it. There was only the last couple of inches of the skirt and part of the sleeves that weren't done. She came to a point where she just didn't have the presence of mind to be able to follow the pattern correctly. It was almost like she knew I would finish it, though. She had made notations on the pattern as to where she had left off.

So, Teresa and Isabel, this post is for you. Know that a lot of love went into this gift.
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