This Past Week

We spent most of last week taking turns being sick. My turn was the longest- Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. What a great week!

Yesterday my parents took Big Kid to a special event (very hard to describe- it was a rodeo/petting zoo/downtown experience all rolled into one) so it was just me and Little Bit for most of the day. I spent his afternoon nap working with all the cut fabric pieces for Reed's quilt, laying them one way and the other on my living room floor and ultimately deciding that the pattern I picked ahead of time doesn't work quite the way I hoped. Sarah and Wayne deserve the best I can do for them, and that just wasn't it. So there's been a bit of a change, and it's slow progress, but I'm really happy about it.

As for pictures, my camera is sick and that's why we were having all the problems. Hopefully it will come back to me from the repair shop as good as new. Pics will come, just not as soon as I thought.

No Pictures?!?

I know, I know- I promised pictures on Monday, and they're not here! I'm having some, ahem, "technical difficulties." The first little problem would be my my son-  you know the little one that thinks he's Super-Toddler? Yeah that one. He's been working overtime on climbing, destroying and generally being a boy. Time I'd planned for teaching and sewing on Tuesday was diverted into an unexpected doctor's visit after he tried to fly off the dining table. He's bruised, but okay otherwise- he hasn't slowed down, that's for sure! Yesterday involved falling off the couch, smashing his hand in a door, and making 50 gazillion trips up and down the stairs- him scrambling up as fast as he could about half way and me getting him back down. Who needs regular exercise when you have a fifteen-month-old?

The other difficulty actually is a technical one: my camera card won't speak to my computer for some reason. Superman has promised to take a look at it this evening so I can get pictures put up- or else I'll borrow my sister's camera and computer this weekend.

I've been sewing during nap time/quiet time and after the boys go to bed. It has been so nice to quilt again. The last quilt I made was for Big Kid before he was born. Since then my crafting efforts have gone other places, and making this quilt has reminded me of how much I like quilting. I think I might plan another project to take me through winter.

Today I'm working today until 7:30 then Superman and I have a date planned, so I probably won't sew today, but I'll get back to it tomorrow afternoon during naps. I've finished most of the muslin blocks, but I still have a few more to do tomorrow, then on to the strip piecing. I''ve readjusted my plan and I hope to get all the strips pieced and cut down. I really hope to get to the block piecing, because I know that once I start that part I won't want to stop and the quilt will suddenly be done. :)

Reed's Quilt: Cutting

I have most of the cutting done! This afternoon during nap time I'll finish the cutting, then start working on sewing the muslin pieces. I'm trying to get through all the muslin pieces today and tomorrow. The goal for Wednesday is to have all the strips for blocks sewn. I'm hoping to get those strip cut and set out for blocks on Thursday, then have Friday, Saturday and Sunday to put the blocks together and finish the top.  I'll post pictures of some of the muslin pieces tonight when the boys are in bed.

Reed's Quilt: Last of the Fabric

I believe this is the last of the fabrics for Reed's quilt. I'm planning to start cutting on Friday, with plans to have everything cut, muslin blocks pieced, and strips for the quilt top sewn by the end of Sunday. I'll spend next week piecing blocks. The *goal* is to have the quilt completed by Saturday October 18, bound on October 19 and to the machine quilter on October 20. I am trying to have the entire project ready to send by the end of the month.

Please note that *goal* means it is my desire to finish by that date! This should be totally doable, barring illness or poorly behaved children. :) I've tried to plan in a bit of wiggle room since my kids are known to be, well . . . kids, so that I can still send the project to Reed's mother by October 31.