new fabric

Over the last few weeks I have been in the mood to buy fabric. 

I cant tell you where I got all of this from.

i think i got some of it from Mary Jos in Gastonia, some at Hancocks fabric in Hickory and some from Carolina Fabrics in Black mountain.

Im glad I picked up the panels as I was running out. I love to grab panels so I can do some quick baby quits (this is great with a pregnancy brain and 5 people I know due in a couple months of each other - including me!)

these were taken in my new quilting space- I NEED some lighting put up... the shadows are annoying when working as well.

Love the purples! good thing im having a baby girl!

Love you Zeke

I have 2 panels of the noahs ark. You will see one quilt soon with it. 

isnt this just sweet?

all stacked up!

Happy valentines day

now my hubby and I dont do a lot for valentines day.

we dont often do anything or exchange gifts. 

This year I needed something that no man is supposed to get his wife.....

I needed a new hand mixer and it just fell at the right time for valentines day. 

Today on G+ Dave posted this:

OK fine. I dislike Valentines day... luckily my wife isn't big into it either, so I can get away with not buying her flowers and chocolates (tho I did get her flowers a few days ago, and a date night last night)...

However, +Debbie DeBaeremaeker: You are awesome and amazing. I am actively trying to make more of you because you are so great. You are beautiful when there is just one of you, amazingly beautiful when you are pregnant. Every day spent with you is wonderful, and the worst day we've had together is better than the best day I had before I met you. In short, yeah, you rock my world.

So my dearest love. Happy Valentines Day. I am glad that you are mine.

*collective awww*

so I decided to use the mixer for him...

the icing i made was 1/2 nutella and 1/2 chocolate butter cream icing from a can.

he seems to be enjoying it :)

I love you Dave!

quilt mojo returns

so you all know by now that I havent done much quilting in the last 4-5 months since getting pregnant.

I had a friend who had her baby 6 weeks early back in December.
I finished a top for the quilt and it sat on my table for a looong time. (we did go to Canada for 3 weeks in there)

I saw him this past Sunday and he was 8 weeks old or so and I realized I better get going on the quilt for him!! so I quilted it Sunday afternoon. I finished it up by Thursday to take to my quilt guild for show and tell.

I then took it home and machine did the binding (after hand stitching.)

I had a couple issues with this quilt with the binding that I havent done in so long!! I guess I was away from quilting too long and forgot it! Mostly it was the fact I didnt use a 1/4 inch on sewing it down.

I machine put the binding down to make sure it would survive the many washes :)

Signed and you can see I used a fancier stitch on the binding

 I only used my walking foot for the quilting. 

I didnt want to to though the panel so I stitched in the ditch there.

 I never measured it to see how big it was! oh well

The backing was perfect for such an early and loved little one

Here is Loren and Alex and baby Asher with their present at church today.

zeke picture updates

Here are some pictures of Zeke from the last few days.

Zeke and his buddy were playing "naps" and were giggling so hard!

 he was trying to make a frowny / grumpy face- but kept breaking up

 then he did "cheese"

 at a hotel- Zeke sat in there and pulled Baileys food in with him so he could watch Bailey eat.

 on his first train ride

 on a carousel   

 riding the second time with daddy

 watching planes take off

 we have a lot of douplo...so I got one big tote for it

 first night in his Big Boy Bed

 And was still in it 12 hours later :)

new fabric

When we were in Canada I was able to get to one quilt shop- it was a very cute one in Fonthill, ON. 

Dave picked out some Dr. Seuss fabric. 

some fat quarters (of meters)

I knew we were having a girl so I picked out some more girly fabric without going pink. (Im not huge on pink). The orange on the right has a nice pattern in it - so I got a whole meter of the "solids" and a 1/2 of the 2 prints.

Some lovely winter fabric- even if we didnt see much snow while there. 

1/2 meter of them.

Christmas 2011 pictures part 2

This is part 2 of the 3 week vacation we took to Canada.

again- these are mostly to have them somewhere

enjoy

Christmas 2011 part 1 pictures

We left NC on Sat the 17th to go visit our family in Canada on a 3 week vacation.

the following pictures were taken up to Dec. 26th (ok so there was a couple extra xmas party ones thrown in)

I know there are a lot of them and this is mostly for my family.

There are some cute ones of Zeke in there too :)

enjoy!