My fabrics arrived for the Spare a Square Challenge (I sent the Joel Dewberry in the middle). I kind of had an idea of what I wanted to do, but i'm not so sure now. Maybe I want to do something different... Hopefully I'll get it done by Monday...but we have a little guy teething, so we'll just have to see. 
Husband, if today is one of those days you've decided to see what your wife is up to...I would suggest coming back tomorrow. 
Actually, he seen my stash on several occations. I know he probably thinks, why the heck does she need all of that fabric...and i'm sure he secretly rolls his eyes when I come home with more fabric.
He's so very good, never complaining, or asking why it is I needed that fabric. We'll just have to strike a deal.
I wont ask about RC cars, video games, guitars or computer equipment if you wont ask me about fabirc.
And I PROMISE to hurry up and get stuff done and put into my Etsy shop... I promise. Really. Just take baby for an hour so I can get to it!
It's 7 o'clock...baby's asleep, husband is out with friends, and I'm in my sewing room with a glass of wine...actually getting some sewing (and future pattern making) done! I'm in so much shock from it all, I could just faint! But then that would defeat the whole purpose of baby asleep, husband away, sewing getting done...
What to give to one of those people who has everything? Why a homemade gift of course! Whipped up in a flash on Friday night (boy do I know how to party on the weekend).
A slightly, on purpose, wonky log cabin mini quilt to hang on the receiver's sewing room wall.
Although, i'm not sure just home much time she spends at her sewing machine. Since retiring, I think she is too busy.
It was hard to give this one up! I may need to make another like it for my walls. Oh how my list of "to do" grows...
The other birthday girl you ask? She received this lovely framed picture of her rooster, King Kong, to hang in her almost-finished new house.
On their way to Juliette's to be swapped around. It will be a few weeks until we receive these back. I'm anxious to see what I get in return and to make my quilt.
Liz suggested I post this recipe. In fact, I stole the picture from her blog since she just made it recently. This is a fall favorite with my family. Actually, my mom and I have already made it two or three times since September. I'm not sure how I stumbled upon making this years ago, but I lost my original recipe and then found another one and adapted it to make it my own. Don't be afraid because it has "beer" in it. The alcohol is all cooked out and just adds a nice bite to it. Now, the most important part, you must use Heineken beer. I don't know why, but of all the beer's we've tried over the years, it is simply the best. And really the "secret" ingredient. You can try other beers of course, you may like something better, but I strongly recommend making it with Heineken your first try. As well as being SO yummy, it's SUPER easy.
Nothing too amazing. But I thought you might like to see where I blog from. I just cleaned off my "message" board last week. Looks much better now. You can go to the Flickr page for this to see my "notes" about it all. Oh, and look...a sneak peak at the shelves on the left side of this wall. I'm not ready to show them yet.
So this is the lower cupboard on the far end of our kitchen. We've been having those little "grain" moths fly out of it. Well, actually, they are flying out of that and the upper cabinet, but i've already gone through the upper cabinet. I had finally had enough of little crawly grain bugs on my ceiling in the kitchen. I could never see where exactly they were coming from...I would just have to have Husband take them down several times a day.
So I finally dissected the lower cabinet. They were EVERYWHERE! In the flour canister...with a lid locked tight. In a bag of whole wheat flour...in the cornmeal...in a bag of regular flour...see the little guy in the last photo there? Ew! I know they are in there, unhatched, anyways...and we eat them like that...but still, I can't stand the thought of them crawling around in my grain.
After I had pulled everything out and opened it, and went back to the bags, I found this guy crawling along the top of the Albertson's flour bag. Now, don't you think if a bag says it's good until April 2009 that the bugs shouldn't hatch until after then???? This one looks as if he was thinking about going back inside, but then changed his mind.
I went to remove this one off of the brown sugar canister...but wait, it was still there when the paper towel came away. IT WAS INSIDE OF A SEALED CANISTER! Like the kind that have a hitching-lock-mechanism-y-thing. Since when do grain bugs get into brown sugar? I guess they are everywhere.
On a much more pleasant note, look what my wonderful husband brought me today! We had just had a conversation last week about how he could bring home flowers once in awhile, and he said to me...I have thought about it on so many occasions, but you had said they just die, so you'd rather not. I was like...don't ever listen when a woman tells you flowers are not a big deal. So, his first trip out to Costco without me (I like Costco flowers) he brings these home. Apparently, tulips are very hard to find in October. But, for a city whose leaves still haven't turned, why not find tulips out of season.
Speaking of the season, go here to see our trip to the pumpkin patch. On a side note, i'm having issues fixing color between my monitor and printer...so if the pictures look really bad, it's because they look perfect on my messed on computer monitor. Let me know about that.
...to Pigtails and Snails and enter to win this quilt. Of course, additional entries for blogging about it and posting the nifty button to your side bar on your blog. How can you resist? More on the crafting front from me soon. I just need to find some time for myself! But I have been busy with the help of Grandma and her attention to the little guy.
That's Craft Room/Studio/Office...I need a better all around name. Ideas? So my two new wall hangings are hung, it still looks a little bare, and unfinished. But it's a start.
And, look...I got shelves in my nooks. I even got them decorated. But I don't like how I did the one of the left side of the room...so no pictures just yet. I need to work on it. I was going to hang the picture frames on the shelves, but I really like them sitting there. I am suppose to have another shelf in each nook, but I kind of just like it how it is. So I might just leave it. I need to make some new stuff to hang in the card holder on the wall there. Those are old Christmas cards I made last year and I really don't care for them. I should make little quilt cards or hang some of my sewing photography. It will always be a work in progress.
Another quilted wall hanging finished! The hold up on this has been the hand quilting around all of the pieces. This is another 5 year project that is finally checked off my list. I love it on my wall!
It only took me 3 years (or is it 4...?) to get the binding sewed onto this. Now it's on the wall in my craft room, where I can see it every day. I don't care if it's a seasonal wall hanging, I think i'll keep it up all year long.
I never did post about what I bought at the Quilt Expo. Doesn't seem like much in the picture...but the picture is missing the 5 yards of Chez Moi I bought (remember me with the bolt of fabric?). Let's see *rubbing my hands together* there's the cute goose & quilt magnet (I have the small tile of this sitting in front of my monitor, too)...some Halloween fabric, one of which is a panel to make this quilt...a charm pack of Summer in the City by Urban Chicks (I have plans for a simple quilt for this)...1/2 yards of some of the Wee Play fabrics...some patterns...and a cute quilt card to frame for my studio/craft room/office (whatever you call this multi-tasking room). 
It's been on my list for awhile.
I have pin cushions. But I don't like them. I wanted a new one.
And I like this one VERY much. Of course I used Heather Bailey's free pattern on her blog.
Testing it out on paper...
Giving it a go for real!
Not too shabby...but FAR from perfect.
