Baby Quilt is Done!

Commissioned Quilt #4 is finished! I finally put the last stitches in the binding on Monday. I am very pleased with how it turned out.

If your wondering why the quilt is hanging from my shower curtain, it's because it was too windy to hang it on the cloths line outside :) . This pattern came from one of Alex Anderson's baby quilt books. This paticular pattern is called Grandma's Favorite.

The lady that asked me to do the quilt wanted it to be able to work for either a boy our a girl. That is why I used the colors yellow, cream, green, and blue.

In the sashing, I quilted free motion stars with two curving lines flowing in between them to make them look like they were floating. The two curvy lines turned out to kind of look like ribbon.

For the nine patch blocks, I just quilted in the ditch so it wouldn't distract from the pattern.

I delivered the quilt to the lady and she was very pleased with it. She thought it was really cute. She also said that she would need me to make another one for her for August! Here we go again :) ! It's a good thing that I love to sew!

I hope everyone has a Happy New Year! :)

Christmas Gifts

Tis the season of giving! This year I didn't have much time to get my gifts but a managed to make some for four of my girl friends. My grandma showed me a magazine with a pattern for a quick and easy fleece muffler. We had a day off of school last Friday so I took time to make one for each of my friends.

The pattern only used one layer of fleece, but I decided it would look cool to have a two sided one using two different colors. I got a different color for each scarf and then used the same gray on the back of each.

Each scarf has a slit in it so you can put the other side of the scarf through it. That way it stays wrapped around your neck. I gave them to my friends today and they really liked them! The scarves were really easy to make and made really good gifts.

Have a Merry Christmas!!! :)

Commissioned Baby Quilt #4

Last weekend I was able to make some progress on the baby quilt that I was commissioned to do.

I almost got the top of it together. All it needs now is the borders.

I have two days of Thanksgiving vacation left, so hopefully I can get the top done! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! :)

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Snow is one of my favorite parts of the winter season. I love to watch it fall and see how it sparkles. As I walked out of school today it was just barely snowing, but as a got home, it started to get harder and harder. It is now 5:30 and it is still snowing! I absolutely love it!!! Have a good evening. :)

In Progress

One of the things that I like to do to relax is play piano. I have been taking piano lessons for four years. I really enjoy it. Right now I am working on learning to play a piece called "Angel Eyes" by Jim Brickman. It is very beautiful.

It is also very long; five pages to be exact. I can play about half of it but the last half gets very complicated.

Hopefully, in the future, I will be able to play it the whole way through.

If you would like to listen to it just click on this link. It will take you to YouTube were you can watch a video of Jim Brickman play "Angel Eyes". He plays it a little differently than he originally wrote it, but you can get the general idea of what it sounds like. Enjoy!!! :)

Great Movie!!!

Just this past Sunday, my family and I went to see a new movie that came out in theaters last Friday. It is called "Fireproof". It is a wonderful movie by the makers of "Facing the Giants". The message is really good. When you get the chance you need to go and see this! :)

High School

Hey everyone! Sorry that I haven't posted in such a long time! School has taken up all the free time that I had during the summer. This is my first year in high school and I have found that is much more difficult than the middle school. There is a lot more work involved. I do like challenges though. Hopefully this will be a good year and I will be able to get a lot accomplished! :)