Quilt #20

I'm a little embarrassed about the amount of time it's taken me to finish this quilt. I'm still trying to figure out how to fit all my interests into the limited amount of free time I get each day - time with Rose, time to cook/bake, time with Mike, time to read, time to quilt, etc. It certainly doesn't help that I can't function with less than 7.5 hours of sleep per night!  So recently quilting fell a little to the wayside, and this this quilt took a looooong time to reach completion. I hope my friend Jane thinks it's worth it! :)

 

Lucy did not want me to mail it away! (Don't worry - I washed it before packing it up!)

NUMBER ONE
7/07 - Fractured Pinwheels (for the Burmen)

NUMBER TWO
12/07 - Roman Fence (for Gramma Larson)

NUMBER THREE
5/08 - Log Cabin (for my parents)

NUMBER FOUR
9/08 - 30s throw (for my friend Ryan's baby Evan)

NUMBER FIVE
12/08 - Stars and Stripes (for Jack and Marsha)

NUMBER SIX
12/09 - scrap quilt (for our living room)

NUMBER SEVEN
5/10 - Hug and Kiss (for the Failors)

NUMBER EIGHT
12/10 - Amish quilt (for Anne)

NUMBER NINE
12/10 - Corner Stars (for my boss Joan)

NUMBER TEN
1/11 - another 30s throw (for my friend Megan's baby Norah)

NUMBER ELEVEN
9/11 -Nature Studies Nine Patch (for friend Mitra)

NUMBER TWELVE
3/12 - I don't remember the name of the design! (for Rose's crib)

NUMBER THIRTEEN
7/13 - Christmas Cactus (for my office at work)

NUMBER FOURTEEN
8/13 - Moda Charms Toddler Quilt (for my friend Aryn's baby Vivia)

NUMBER FIFTEEN
12/13 - another Moda Charms Toddler Quilt (for Rose to have at school)

NUMBER SIXTEEN
1/14 - Checkerboard Plaids (for Mike)

NUMBER SEVENTEEN
3/14 - Scrap quilt (for Rose)

NUMBER EIGHTEEN
5/14 - Bali Sea Stars (for friend Marcy)

NUMBER NINETEEN
7/14 - Honey Honey Layer Cake Quilt (for friend Anna)

NUMBER TWENTY
8/15 - Wee Woodland (for friend Jane)

home alone again

For better or for worse, Mike and Rose are away from home again: Mike is fishing/camping in northern WI and Rose is visiting my parents. As much as I miss them both, I do still enjoy my quiet time alone. So while I'm looking forward to their return on Tuesday, until then I've been enjoying:

WED:  worked on a quilt, ate popcorn (and had a glass of wine) for dinner, watched two episodes of The Good Wife

THURS: went to Chipotle for dinner, bought some woodchips at Home Depot, did a bunch of weeding in the front garden, read some of my book

FRI: happy hour with work friends Quinn and Jacob, then saw the amazing Inside Out (seriously, go see it!!!)

My quilting buddy

SAT: finished my latest quilt, went to the post office to try to mail it (only to find that it would cost $70 to send overseas?!?), picked up my library book on hold, sorted through all the shoes in my closet and donated several to Goodwill (gaining a half size after pregnancy is apparently a real thing), ate lunch at my favorite Indian buffet with my friend Helene, picked up groceries at Costco and at Target, went (window) shoe shopping, rearranged the living room furniture, watched a few more episodes of The Good Wife

SUN: slept in (!), read the paper, started my next quilt, watched a crap-ton of episodes of The Good Wife, prepped an entree salad for a potluck lunch tomorrow, did some more quilting

Cut out lots of squares and strips...

One block done, 79 more to go!

Soon I'm off to dinner with my friend Ryan at our favorite grad school throw-back restaurant. I'm so excited!

I realized that the things I crave doing when I have the house to myself now are very different than what I craved when Rose was a baby. Back then I yearned to bake and to take a nap - two things that I was unable to at the time. Now that Rose and I do so much baking together (and now I'm no longer sleep deprived), quilting is the new thing that I crave doing when I have time alone. Apparently that means I need to find a way to do this hobby when she is around! Since she's older now, I'm optimistic that there may be a way...

Hope you all are having a great weekend!