Baby Shower news

ok so my mom was done with the quilts when i got to her house on friday… back in March… well i didn’t finish the binding until last thursday… what was i thinking??? i just think i was nervous about doing it by hand. so as a i started i thought to myself …there is no way i’m gonna finish this tonight and have then ready to go. so i just used a decorative stitch on the sewing machine and was done with it. i then threw them in the wash and then i played around with some freezer paper stencils!! can we saw new hobby! i have an idea for a shirt for me… but i will share it when i get it figured out!

FRONTS

BACKS

label

Stencil Onesies

all together

i went on a quilt shop hop this weekend with my mom and sister! it was cool. 2 of them sold yarn alos.. but i didn’t get any. i did get some fabrics though. i haven’t figured out what i will do with them just yet. i do have a profect in mind… actually 3 but i’m leaning toward one more than the others.

i’m not quite finished with the doll yet. i melted her eye and was so distrought over that i lost interest in it… but then i figured it out and kind of fixed it. i don’t think anyone will be able to tell the difference but i can. so i’m just not happy with her at the moment. but i will give it to her anyway. i don’t like her hair either. i will post pictures when she is done.

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Shower next friday

i took the quilts to my mom on tuesday…

i went over yesterday morning, she had not started them YET…

i’m going over there tomorrow evening….

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE DONE!!!!!!!!!

i know she won’t have even started them. and i’ll probably end up sitting with her all night to have them done… maybe if i go over there early and have Twin pick up the kids when she goes to pick up Niece then i can get her to have them done by tomorrow night… hmmmm… most likely she will do it just so she can peek in on my puppies… but as of right now hubby does not want her at my house. long messed up story but if you’d like to read about it go here… excuse my language i can get a little raw at times. anyway… i really want them finished by the weekend cause i need to do the label. my older sister suggest i wait to put the label on so they won’t get quilted over… since she suggested it maybe i can get her to hand sew them on too… i hate sewing by hand… she also suggested i hand sew the binding on… she would.. i mean she loves to sew by hand why wouldn’t she suggest it. to bad shes on spring break this week. i’d have her sew on the binding too! so i’m also thinking of maybe some receiving blankets… as i was burp cloths and bibs… but got to thinking… shes having twins so that means twice as much work… so i’ll just buy something. maybe a box of diapers… never can have to many diapers! especially with twins.

oh does anybody know how to make some cute patches for jeans??  or at least where i can find a pattern or tut on the net.  i’ve serched and come up with nothing!  thanks

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what i’ve been up too

ok i was tagged by Sharon but… my book has walked off. it was Cesar’s Way by Cesar Milan and it has dogs on the cover so… i *know* who got it.  i guess i’ll have to beat it out of her as to where she put it! so i wasn’t ignoring you i just don’t know where little miss sticky fingers put my book! sorry!

i finally got the quilts almost done. all i need to do now is make the backs and go buy some batting so i can get them quilted. i decided to go ahead and have my mom do them. oh i have to buy some thread too. but here they are…

in baby making news… hmmm… that didn’t sound right! oh well ya’ll know what i’m talking about!! i hope! i’m making a doll for DD#1 friend… yeah i’m still working on it. i keep forgetting stuff to order. but i got most of her done. now i just need to root her hair and put her together and dress her… which i still need to find… shes getting there.

in yarny news… i was in the Hand Dyed Yarn Swap and this is what i made

and this is what i got…

its sort of not my taste at all BUT DD#2 likes it so she can get something from it. looks like sherbet doesn’t it? i like it but i just don’t like all the colors mixed together like that but hey its yarn so who knows what it will look like knitted up.

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had the puppies

see my other blog

much ado about nothing

i haven’t done jack… i’ve put together about 6 rows of the other quilt. i’m trying to get in the mood to turn my craft area into a whelping(labor for dogs) station. i just don’t feel like it. i’d rather do it in the kitchen… but then again i really don’t want my dog birthing babies in my kitchen. so the only other option would be my craft area. soooooooooooooo… i have a week to get it ready which is not an exact time it could happen at any moment. but i know what to look for so i think i have at least a few days. i was gonna try and get this quilt done before they got here so i wouldn’t have to worry about bothering them … but i don’t think that will happen. so whatever man.

we are expecting 5 puppies. i think $700 for one is a good price. they usually go for $600 - over a $1000. so i think 7 is a good number. do ya’ll think that is reasonable??? my mom thinks i’m gonna keep them all. and i would if i had a bigger house and more than anything a fenced in yard. maybe thats what i will do with the money… buy a damn fence!

i got my last stitch markers last thursday. they are cute… kind of long with small rings… but i can work with them! i’m just glad i got some more after the first girl flaked on me so i got these from my angel…

and since i like making stitch markers so much i volunteered to be an angel also! here are the ones i made. i really like my little ball of yarn that i made out of polymer clay… isn’t it CUTE!!! i wanna make more!

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one almost down

one to go. i finished putting the 1st quilt together last night. all i have left is the border then i gotta figure out how i’m gonna quilt them… i was thinking just tie them. cause i kind of wanna have then done by tuesday. if i let my mom quilt them then that means i have to sit over there and wait for her to do them. which won’t be so bad… or i could try and do it myself on the sewing machine… but i don’t have a clue how to do that. but i have a minute to think of that cause i wanna get this one done first.

Baby Quilt #1

Baby Quilt #2… ready to be put together

my yorkie is pregnant with puppies (well damn i would hope they are puppies… why did i say with puppies like it could be kittens of something) *eye roll* anyway…having puppies ain’t cheap so i have put a lot of stuff on hold… but not to much. at least till i get all my supplies for the whelping.

Mama and Daddy taking a nap together ( a rarity…the cancan hardly stand each other.. i guess they like each other enough to get they groove on!!)

She was so tired she fell asleep on my keyboard!

Puppy Bump

now DD#1 has me doing a doll for her little friend for her birthday… luckily i already had a doll kit on its way. but i did have to buy some supplies (for Caucasian babies cause i have none) i wouldn’t be doing this if DD#1 hadn’t been spending time with this little girl and her mom wasn’t so nice. she bought DD#1 dinner (i offered to pay for it and she said no… who am i to argue?? ) when she took them to see Han.nah Mon.tana at the movies (that i didn’t have to pay for) and they went flower arranging (girl scouts) last weekend (didn’t pay for that either). so i figure i’d do something for her. ain’t i nice??!!

no knitting weekend

so i didn’t knit at all this weekend. not that i didn’t feel like it i was busy doing this….

it is one of the baby quilts for DD#1’s teacher. as you can see it is once again a trip around the world. my favorite pattern next to the log cabin. i love doing the coloring for these quilts. i’m really liking how this one is turning out.

i plan on knitting while watching Raisin in the Sun in 10 minutes though!!!

oh i also made these….

can you guess what they are????

they are fire starters! i made them from candle wax, saw dust, and dryer lint. very easy to make and work fantastic! i also but some scent in them but i don’t think i put enough in them or the wood just over powered it. ok got go watch the movie.

i forgot to post the other pictures of the fire starters!  thanks patrice for asking.  you light it and place it under the wood… and it will do the rest!!!

slowly growing

and when i say slow i mean SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. S.L.O.W. funny thing is i’ve been working on it for about a week and haven’t gotten very fay but have done a lot…. and i’m not tired of it and ready to put it down yet. maybe because this is one of those projects that you have to refer to the pattern often… well at least us slow people do. ;P so anyway here are some pictures. i only work on it for and hour or two a day. well not straight through cause i got kids and sponibilities!!! yeah sure i do. i wish that i could just knit on it all day… trust me i have tried but the kids just won’t let it happen. these past 2 days have been good knitting time cause we had 2 snow days. So DS#1 been here and he watches the babies a little but not really. they just don’t get into as much stuff than they do if i’m sitting in my room knitting and the older kids are in school. i don’t know what i’m gonna do when DD#2 goes to school… guess i won’t ever be knitting during school hours unless i find i new knitting spot…

this is how far i have gotten…

you can see the cables better in this one

here is some of the fabric i have choosen for the baby quilts.  i need to go get some more …

so at least i bought the fabric.  i still wanna do it and excited… i cleaned my work area  even though i didn’t want to.  ijust need about 5 different fabrics cause i like to cut all fabrics together.  rather than some at different times.

DD#1 has asked me to make a doll for her friend for her birthday next month.  since i have let her hang out with the little girl and her moms been paying for things like food and such i figure i could make her one… but only if she likes dolls.  cause  i’m not putting all my time and money into something that will be abused.  i think i will go the Berenger route again since it will be a play doll.  i don’t know which one though.

ok i have to find another LQS so i can go get the reat of this fabric.

E. E. KCAL

i joined the Ebony Elite KCAL. and i decided on the Red Cable Cardigan from Twelve Months of Knitting. that i just got last week and saw this pattern for the first time and thought it would be perfect for my mom… so i’m using the same yarn that i got months ago. hope i have enough. so this is what i got so far.

the beginning of the cardigan

what it will look like… hopefully!

the book

another book i got not to thrilled about it…

 

i’mma bite off Patrice and do a “Why i can’t sew” only mine is for a totally different reason.

WHY I CAN’T SEW…

 

you see this here is my cutting/craft table. you see that on the floor… thats my brand new cutting mat. i can probably name one thing on this table that is mine. the tool box. it has all my reborn stuff in it. all that other mess is my husband. he does this all the time.

this is his mail… that he decided need to decorate my area and then half knock my stuff off.

so this is why i can’t sew. my husband has taken over my craft space and junked it up to the point where i don’t feel like cleaning it up or fining a new home for his shit. oops i wasn’t supposed to say that but thats just how pissed i am./ i mean its fine that you can’t find a place for it but you’re not supposed to dump your shit in my my space. so i will most likely have to find a place for it. i just don’t want to hear about it later when he can’t find something. but then again i really don’t care. ok back to it!!

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bag was finished tuesday

finished the bag… but one of my bad ass kids unraveled the top some how. i have a felling i know which one did it.

i don’t know what happened to the rest of my post but now i don’t feel like rewritting it… so i will edit later!!!

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