Sunday evening I finished up the hand quilting on Elliana’s quilt!!! YAY 🙂 I was promptly exhausted and Molly was promptly excited to see I was cutting it off the frame 🙂 She is soooo cute I had to snap a photo of her on the quilt as I cut it loose! lol
Monday I sewed on the binding , made the label and sewed it on … and Tuesday I got a new do for summer time 😀
Y’all it is SHORT back there… but I totally love that she left the front long enough to do something with still 😀 I am not due to have it trimmed again until September but I am already contemplating late July to keep it up a bit better! lol
And look how beautiful the daisies are looking this week with the rain on them … we started getting rain mid week !!! YAY (Our pond is back to getting water to it again.. our river was very low from lack of rain here in the mountains!)
I took a better photo of the table runner showing the machine quilting on it… I really like this piece in our kitchen decor now too 😀
Look at this heart shaped flag piece we found when thrift shopping Monday… found a home real quick in our decor!
And we got a 5′ x 7′ rug that Molly has promptly decided is her play area 😀
I wish you could see her… she brings all her toys and treats here now to enjoy them and rolls around on the carpet to rub her back and play for her toys… she loves it! Sew funny to watch!!
She turns 1 year old Monday the 10th !! YIPPEE 🙂
And look at this quote I found this week…
I am so proud and excited for her!!!!
She also starts a job now next week at the school where she took her GED classes… she passed above the expectations of the course too… and had fun teaching some of her classmates math … her favorite subject 😀
I won Julie Cefalu’s giveaway for May y’all! I am MEGA EXCITED about this ❤
The Crafty Quilter… aka Julie…(HERE is the blog post she posted after contacting me<<<) contacted me early in the week and by yesterday I was looking at all these goodies 😀 I am stoked !!! I never win anything I enter but my hard work and perseverance paid off here… look at my winning lot!
Julie has her own stationary and she wrote me a very personalized not for winning… she did substitute for the Moda 2019 hand towel this cool label fabric and a spool of 50 wt Aurifil (my fave thread ya know) … I love this substitution… the other fabrics are 1/2 yard but mostly I am excited for the Ruby red Olfa 45 mm rotary cutter!!!!
I am a July born baby and ruby is my birthstone and me and my honey’s fave color together too ❤
So to celebrate winning we finally bit the bullet and ordered a “bistro set” … a couple of cozy oversized chairs that swivel and a table that is glass top but not see through and larger than we expected…
Here you can see our front yard a bit better and how it sits near our flag pole on a concrete slab that was there when we bought the house… we used it for a burn pit for paper trash… now that is moved to near the river for burning purposes where it is more safe anyway and we have claimed this space to enjoy sitting (when it stops raining )…
No complaints about the rain but I will be glad to enjoy this newly claimed spot!
I am not showing any more of the quilt but little snippets until next weeks post when they have received the quilt… but look at the cute label I made here…
And here is the 3rd corner as I rounded each one during the week and busy stuff was happening…
Finally Friday nite I placed the last pins and stitched all the binding down using my favorite new stitch the ladder stitch I shared a while back in a picture tutorial here…
This week I ordered fabrics and made a proper pattern for the basket themed pillow shams to coordinate with my daughter’s graduation quilt she will be coming to get sometime end of July around her birthday she says 😀
To the left is the pattern I fleshed out when I wasn’t able to sleep one night…
To the right is the fabric that I didn’t let myself near until the quilt for Elliana was done 😀 I love torturing myself but I loved more playing with the new fabrics!!!
Going through my stash I knew I had a bit of nice white fabric for the flying geese … and some more grey in the steel color I bought… but the colors are a tad off on the grey… so I may make the grey fabric I had be part of the back of the pillow shame and keep the new grey fabric to be the pieced front part of the pillow sham 🙂 
And before I knew it my other new rotary (Clover green 45 mm rotary) along with the 28 mm with a fresh blade (great for trimming to size all those hst’s)… had this top part of the basket laid out 🙂
Molly got a new toy this week… she got filthy dirty in the dirt and rain by the river that runs through our yard… so she got a bath and brush out… she looked so good I had to grab a photo of her and her new ball toy too on the rug 😀
And here is Ellie at 2 weeks old… they will call Elliana that I think 🙂
Isn’t this the cutest photo of a baby!!!! LOL I am sew in love with her… I think we will be going there first part of July for my birthday!!!
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