Oops, I found the perfect fabric for a quilt for our Guest Bedroom and I bought some. It's from Joel Dewberry's Modern Meadow collection in the palette First Bloom. It's really girly and pink and I really like it! The curtains I made last winter for our old living room are in the guest bedroom. I plan on making a queen sized quilt, which would be the largest ever made by me, and I'd like to have it done by baby birthing time since we'll be receiving a whole bunch of visitors after that. I just can't help myself! I promise it'll be simple...
The night I trimmed all those itty bitty squares, I also arranged and sewed them together. I'm really happy with how this quilt is turning out! I'm still waiting to purchase the fabric by the yard rather than just a charm pack. I thought it would be available this month... In the meantime, I'm working hard on other projects because I know I'll be too excited about Greta's quilt to leave it alone. This week, I pinned and quilted a quilt. Right now I'm working on sewing the binding on. Unfortunately, most of my projects that I'll be working on for the next couple months I won't be able to share until after Christmas. So until January, I'll show you what I can!
What are you working on right now?
I found Holly the cutest leather riding boots at Gap for a mere $7. She's not too sure about them, perhaps because they're a size too big, but they're so dang cute on her pudgy legs! She received compliment after compliment on them at church. Holly looked so sweet yesterday. I recently gave her a haircut (it's now all pretty much the same length and ready to grow out mullet-free) and after her bath on Sunday her hair flipped out at the ends. She really is an adorable little girl in my opinion! We love her!
And here's what I look like at just about 24 weeks pregnant. I think I'm carrying even higher than I did with Holly. The breathlessness that I get periodically is a big indication. Greta is a much more active fetus than Holly was as well. She's always wiggling around. I'm beginning to feel more tired as I get closer to my third trimester, and that's making me panic because there's still so much to do! I need my Mother to come down for a week and help me crank out projects!
I think I got it backwards. I think I was supposed to do the intricate, take a lot of time quilt for Holly and then simplify with each child, not the other way around. Yet here I am, making a quilt that requires more trimming than I anticipated. It's a miracle that I haven't trimmed it away! After the work I've done today and tonight, I have 64 blocks that are each 3.25" square. I'll be dreaming in rotary mat green! Did I mention that I plan on hand quilting this bad boy? Maybe I'm insane.
Here's some perhaps more exciting news: the drywall in the nursery is getting patched tomorrow! After that we'll have baseboards to fix, walls to paint and carpet to install. And then, I get to decorate a little girls' room! Hip hip hooray! I'm very, very excited.
On the weekend, we took a little day trip to Frisco, CO. It's just less than 2 hours away from our home and we're so glad we went when we did because the leaves in the mountains are yellowing and falling way faster than the leaves in Denver! We had a lot of fun and Holly loved the rocks and the dirt and the dogs! Holly loves puppies. "Puppy" is one of her few words that she says. Our next mountain destination is Breckenridge (not far from Frisco). It's supposed to have a cuter main street and an amazing donut shop!
