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Six months ago I started my blog.

Time really does fly. When I was about twelve I was with my mother and my grandmother, and they had a little conversation that went like this:

Mom: Is it true the older you get the faster time flies?

Grandma: Oh YEAH!

Mom: Then it must just be whipping by for you.

So so true.

I spent much of the second half of 2013 wanting to blog. The Husband kept asking me why. In sewing and quilting I find so much inspiration in seeing the work of others. I wanted a way to share what I was doing with friends and family, inspire others in their own projects, and motivate myself to get things done a little faster than I typically tend to. In January he helped me get setup to start my blog.

Six months in and I think I'm achieving those goals. I've also all but abandoned my plans to work on programming. (It's still on the bucket list, it just isn't high enough priority at the moment.) More and more time has been spent in front of my sewing machine, or organizing fabric and sewing related supplies. I've made progress on some old WIPs and UFOs. At the moment I have a small quilt top (table runner) completed and ready to quilt. Now that The Boy's birthday has passed, I'll have to get focused on that project.

I'm loving WordPress and the Tiny Forge theme and figuring out how to do what I want it to do. It's only a matter of time before I decide to learn enough code to personalize the theme more. For now, I'm so pleased with how well it works for me.

If you're new to my blog, here are some of my works in progress. I hope to turn these into finishes soon!

 

4th of July table runner
4th of July table runner
The beginnings of two Roman Stripez quilts.
The beginnings of two Roman Stripez quilts.
2006 Shop Hop by the Bay Mystery Quilt
2006 Shop Hop by the Bay Mystery Quilt

 

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The Boy turned 4 this week. Today we celebrated with friends and family. I made some cookies. I had awesome help from my sister to decorate these for the airplane and helicopter themed party.

For a change, I didn't do any wet on wet decorating (though Jenn did wet on wet to make the 4 and G cookies). The 4, G, and propeller cookies were done as transfers, created on wax paper and then applied to the cookies once they were dry. I added the details to the planes with piping icing once the base layer was dry. I took inspiration from these "Let's Travel" cookies.

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After all the positive feedback to my fabric selection I shared last Sunday, I couldn't resist getting started on cutting up the fabric for my two Roman Stripez quilts. Here's a preview of the first few pieced blocks.

first three wonky blocks

And my progress on cutting fabrics for the two projects. I'm about 90% done cutting the initial rectangles. Then I will be working to shuffle them around into groupings for each set of blocks.

ready to do wonky slices

 

I also got to the last step of my 2006 (previously referred to as 2005, oops) Mystery Quilt. I cut up the pieced strips to create the units that will make the first border. Then it will start going together into a completed top.

for the border blocks

Here's what's done so far on this one. There are 35 blocks, made from... 883 pieces of fabric! Man that's a lot of fabric. These are 7.5" finished blocks, so those little squares were all 2" squares to start with. I'm so happy to have them all pieced together!

35 mystery quilt blocks

mystery quilt block detail

 

Oh, and on the cookie front, these 42 cookies get iced tomorrow night for The Boy's airplane and helicopter birthday party this weekend.

cookies

 

I'm linking up to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced and Let's Bee Social at Sew Fresh Quilts.

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