Yay!!

I have never been so happy to be posting!

I've been working on this quilt for more than a year now. I made it last summer during my first, eye opening, self hosted, quilt along. Phew. and then it sat on my shelf. and sat some more till last month I decided I would finish it no matter what well that didn't inspire me as much as it should have and it still took me another month to finally finish it! The good thing about having a project on your machine that isn't getting done very quickly is that you get a lot of other things done!

I've rearranged bedrooms, and visited friends, and helped a friend clean out her art room, and more. All because the projects I wanted to sew on I couldn't because this was on the machine!

I'm thrilled to have it done though and I love the way it looks! I love the hidden cars and the trees and houses!

I even added a sun next to one of the smaller houses :D Can you find it? I'm excited to have something that my little boy will be able to play on and that my girls can have pretend barbie adventures with! I just hope they're as excited as I am! Oh well, I'll enjoy tracing the cobblestones while I eat popcorn if no one else does :D

I'm in the trenches.

I've decided I have to finish my log cabin quilt.

*sigh*

I still love it. I'm just not excited about it. And pebble quilting takes a long time.

Ok I'll quit whining. But next time I am sending my big quilts to the long arm wonderful people that I love *cough* MSQC *cough* It will be wonderful!

Now it's time to stop dreaming and stop quilting. Oh and I can't find my cameras cable to get my pictures off my camera. No worries I will use my old picture it still looks the same. A little further down the quilt but as a picture. About the same.

Oh I hope this goes quickly.

See you on the other side!

To my sweet friends...

I feel I owe you an explanation for my *ahem* month long absence,

I've not been feeling well (if I add a cough does it seem more real? :D ) and sadly this is the only sewing picture I have to show you!

It's the cobblestone streets of suburbia and, no, it's still not done. I'm telling you, it was in the "it's not finished because it's so daunting pile" for a reason!

This is the other reason I've been gone...

Following those little feet around all day and keeping them out of trouble takes way more time than I remember! He's a little troublemaker. Which means all scissors, pins, knives, napkins, candles, etc. must stay out of sight at all times lest they fall into the hands of the wicked er, baby :)

Anyhow, I've still got a sore throat and I'm supposed to sing in church on Sunday, and my husband is out of town for the weekend. Yes that means valentines day too! Yuck, huh!

Well, let's see what I can get done today! I hope to see you again before v-day!

Happy Day!

*I'm off to clean up something that the fingers belonging to the little feet shown above just spilled. Yes, that's all the time it takes. :)

Populating Suburbia

Does anybody remember my Log Cabin Suburbia quilt along way back last summer?

Well that's what I pulled out of my unfinished because it's so scary pile :)

I've been wanting to finish this for awhile but I wanted to do something fun with the quilting,

so, I decided to do it.

I knew I could and I'm not finished yet, but,

I am in the process of populating suburbia!

Hehe! It makes me giggle a little to think about it like that :D

I've got 5 kids I've populated quite enough thank you!

For my quilt I wanted it to look a little like a town so I'm quilting sketchy little cars all around the sashings like they are driving around town!

Old trucks at the corner,

and a convertible speeding down the road, unfortunately that's not what I'm driving.

But that's ok because I have a house.

Yes my cute little sedan is pulling up in front of my adorable little house with the flower box windows.

Just a little starter house for me and my hubby, but it has a fireplace! Apparently.

And a circle window, that I think is way cool :D

I'm still working on finishing out all the streets. When I'm through the cars will probably be somewhat hidden and probably only the one quilted house some things are still to decided.

Hopefully I'll be showing you bigger pictures of my little town in a day or two!

I better watch out though, my daunting project is in danger of becoming seriously fun!