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little tiny Edwin

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Here’s a little tiny guy. Despite his diminuitive size, he’s taken a long time to make. I spun super fine lace weight merino yarn, then made the fabric for each pattern piece with punch needle emboidery. That took me awhile because it was my first punch needle project and I didn’t get the same density of loops on the pieces, and then I forgot to make one of the body pieces a mirror image of the other. I was working on this way back in April while I was listening to the General Conference broadcast. I took him to Boise with me too, in hopes of finishing him, but I was quilting.

Anyway, he’s done now and I love him! He’s pretty crooked and wonky. Sitting down he’s 4 or 5 inches tall, fully jointed, with glass eyes, and ribbon Amy sent me tied around his neck. Now he’s sitting on the book shelf by his big pal Rupert.

long time no blog…

There has been too much to catch up on that making an entry has been daunting…

We got a dog. She’s awesome. We all really love her. My feather duster has been the only chewing-things-she’s-not-supposed-to casualty. Pretty good for a month in a house full of shoes and toys if you ask me.

Barry’s mom came to visit. It was nice. We even got to go on a date while she put the kids to bed. Barry and I had a great time. After losing Jonah and many other traumatic happenings, Grandma was laughing, and crying when we got home. I wouldn’t count on her doing that again.

Logan turned 1!!! My little baby walks around and turns on the oven and dumps greasy-soaking-pot-water all over the couch. He also does really cute things like giving “loves” constantly and signing please and other random things that mean something to him. He is so cute I can hardly stand it.

Our garden grew– and died. We got a pretty good crop of green beans and the peas are still goin’ strong, but the cucumber beetles got our cucumbers squash and cantalope. We will have salsa, though. We’ve got tomatoes and jalapeno peppers coming out of our ears!

Now I have a cold… but it’s getting better. Tomorrow is our anniversary. I have to be better by then!

the quilt is finished!!!!!

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Here it is. It’s 108″x 108″, all cotton with Warm ‘n’ Natural cotton batting. My mom came in May and helped me pick fabric, buy fabric and piece it together. Ty wanted red and khaki, so we picked two reds and two creams and pieced the top like one HUGE log cabin block.

The back is my favorite though.

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It’s a bunch of 10 inch log cabin blocks strung together with the blue I used for the binding on a field of red. Mom made the pillow shams with scraps and extra blocks. I think they’re cool.

Here’s a detail of the back.

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The quilting took me forever. I had to bring the unfinished quilt in its own suitcase with me to Boise and finish it after the wedding. I spent about 6 hours last Monday finishing up the quilting. My first estimate of how long it took me quilt it was about 12 hours, but now that I’m sitting here thinking it out more, I think it took more like 20. I bound it on Tuesday, and gave it to Tyler and Katie on Friday after we got back from our camping trip and helped them move in to their apartment.

HAPPY WEDDING TY AND KATIE!! I hope you like it:)

Joining quilt Monday

I was hoping that I would have a finished quilt to post today, but alas, it didn’t happen. Here it is on paper:

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My mom helped me pick fabric and pay for the fabric and cut the fabric and piece it together, and for the last month I have been quilting it. E V E R Y S Q U A R E I N C H. What was I thinking? I just can’t do anything the easy way. I’m swirly stippling this baby in its 108″x108″ enormity. My aching wrists are sure jealous of Amy’s mom’s quilting machine. Rolling and scrunching this king size beast into my Brother is doable– just barely.

It’s a wedding present for my brother. I hope he likes it. We’re on our way to Boise for the festivities, and to finish the quilt, and to see some real mountains, and to camp in those real mountains.

Oh, and the good news out in crafty bolg land is that Denyse Schmidt is coming out with a new book this fall! I’ve been dreaming of this since I bought my first issue of Martha Stewart Living that featured her back in like 1999. I’ve been studying her quilts (well, the tiny pictures of them I find on her website and in magazine articles) for years. It is a book that I simply must have.