First Look

This weekend I finished all my squares for my quilt and was able to lay it out and see how it would all look together for the first time!! I'm so happy with how well all the 92 different pieces of fabric all fit as one cohesive piece!



I'm nervous that I'll ruin it when I sew it together but, I will just become friends with the seam ripper. Hopefully it will turn out better then my first attempt and putting a quilt top together. Mom and I started it right after my mision and then I took it to college to finish it. When I brought it home to show mom she said "Oh, Babes, we can do better then this", and then took the entire thing apart so that we could start over. Except the summer started and I got a job and we never did. I still have all the blocks in a bag in my closet that have been sitting untouched for years now.

Progress Report

I finished cutting out all of my quilt blocks last night!!!! I'm so excited about the awesome pieces I was able to find! Here is a photo of them all together!! I don't have the neutrals in a photo but they are all creams and ivorys and really great! All very different and will look great with all my colors!


And here is one of them all spread out with some of my favorite pieces of each color on top! The purple, blue and teal all look the same in this photo but trust me they are quite different!! I'm going to do a lot of sewing this weekend so next week i'll actually have some sewn blocks to show!

My new project!!

I have been wanting to make a quilt for quite a while. (I just used two q words in one sentance how often does that happen?) It is fall, and I felt like making a quilt during the fall would help me feel close to Mom! Plus I've wanted to work on a project like this for a while. It gives me something to work on in the evenings so I can feel productive. So while I was over at Murdock's I took advantage of Amy's awesome resources to find a pattern. I already knew I wanted to use a flying geese pattern and I wanted it to be colorful so when I found the following pattern I was thrilled!

I have made some changes to the colors and the arrangement of the colors. Instead of doing black on the bottom I'm going to use brown, and I'm adding more green and a golden yellow color as well as some teal so there is less red. I graphed it all out to scale and then colored it last night for my FHE! There are 128 "geese" So I'm doing exactly 16 triangles of each of the 8 colors I'm using. Brown, purple, blue, teal, green, gold, orange, red. I think it will be really pretty! Plus it's a square I already know how to make, that is really simple. I'll keep you posted on the progress!

Conference and Cinnamon Rolls

My conference weekend was wonderful! It was a beautiful fall day in TX, which means that it cooled down to the low 70's and was cloudy and drizzly outside! My favorite time of the year. I watched Saturday's and Sunday morning sessions at home. I love the spirit that conference brings into my home!

After the afternoon session on Saturday I decided that it was perfect cinnamon roll weather. So I set out to make a batch of Aunt Charmaine's awesome cinnamon rolls. I have serious issues getting bread to raise so this seemed like a risky venture to me, seeing how cinnamon rolls have to raise twice. But I figured why not, so I set to work. It only took 4 1/2 hours (note the sarcasm), but they turned out amazing!! I have to say, I felt like a grown up, like I had really and truly become a woman! I invited some friends over to help eat them, and while we were sitting around talking the lights in my apartment flickered twice and then went out for about 2 hours. It was quite fun. We sat around my living room lit only by my ghost and jackolantern tea lights and shared our favorite conference talks from that day and attempting to tell scary ghost stories.

Sunday afternoon I went over to the Murdock's to have lunch and watch the last session of conference. I love being there! It really was like being with family! My favorite part of the visit happened during lunch. The conversation somehow arrived at wondering who between Amy and Chris would win at arm wrestling. So of course the table was cleared and the debate was promptly put to the test! Chris won, but Amy held strong for quite a while. I plan on going and visiting again soon.