First Quilt top of the year

This is for my Cousin's new baby.
It's a boy, the first for the family. And his room is decorated in camo.
what do you think?

First non-quilt project

So I finished the first non-quilt project um... ever.

;D

(mending doesn't count)

what do you think?

Decorating Help

I got three pictures for my wedding (4.5 years ago) and I am just putting them into black frames.

on this wall.

what I need help with is... 

1. I need something to go with it on the wall, and/or good ways to hang them to look nice...

2. something to go on the opposite wall.

Vintage

sooo... I have been looking for a sewing machine that is similar to my mom's,
you might ask why? When I have a great general sewing machine.
Well...
1. Her's sews so much cleaner than mine (meaning precision of stitches and fine-ness)
2. Has better stitches for the binding of quilts (cause we all know I can not sew straight)
3. It can be fixed because its not all plastic :D


so... I began to search ebay for these over 40 year old Singer sewing machines... and what did I find... the good ones, in good shape with the attachments and etc. were selling for over $200! wow I thought way to hold your value!
however I thought over $200 is over my budget for a sewing machine so I started watching them,
and low and behold I won one!!!

this is what showed up at my door on tuesday

Check out the button-holer that came with it... and all the different options for  types of button holes I can now make... 

and a ridiculous number of feet/attachments I will never use

and in addition to the 20 something built in stitches pop one of these bad boys in and you get a different  stitch.

and I found this sweet vintage sewing book at a library book sale for 10 cents :D... I thought... hm... vintage book for vintage machine

now to make Josh a curtain for his office... using my other vintage  Reader's Digest complete guide to sewing... $1.00 goodwill.

Go Vintage!

72!

too bad its not 72 degrees... instead its 72 squares I finally cut out for the main square of the quilt.
a whopping 4 and 3/4 cut, so it will be 4 and 1/4 finished.

in other news...

the other day in the dollar store parking lot I found .01

and today the guy in front of me left his change in the self check out, I even tried to catch him cause it was $2!

so that brings my total to $2.22

not bad for the second month :D

By The Numbers

So I sat down and did a little math last night,
I had originally thought that I wanted to make 12 inch squares, but it turns out getting an even measurement to cut out with a reasonable size square is impossible, so 6 inch squares it is...
which means... 1.5 inch squares for the small squares (finished)
and 4 1/4 inch big squares...

those small squares yeah... I have to make ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY!!!!!

and small individual triangles I have to make  SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO

Let the cutting begin!

February

Well last month I said was mending month
and I got almost everything mended... but then my fabulous husband thought ... oh I want all of my pants hemmed, so the basket is full again, but I have other plans... at least for this month.

This month I am working on my 3rd queen sized quilt.
this quilt also needs to stay super secret, cause the person I'm making it for knows she is getting it for her wedding but doesnt know what it will look like.
http://quiltville.com/oceanwavespf.html

and here are the fabrics...

the blue will be the big squares and the browns will be some of the triangles and white the other side.
what do you think?