1 Done

Today I finally finished the one twin quilt, however yesterday I gave up hope of finishing both, because I have to work every day next week, including Saturday.
So yesterday Josh and I bought Courtney a Christmas present, and I will try to get hers done by her Birthday, but its Jan 11th, so not much time, we shall see.
Also while we were out, I found a penny at Toys R Us, so that brings our total up to 3.10.

Here is the display of my finished quilt.

So this is on my queen sized bed... its supposed to be a twin... oops.

Top finished

Oh my goodness!
I finally finished the top to quilt 1, I have been a slacker, but I told Josh, I will be working until midnight until I get both done... so... 6 more hours of quilting... :D

what do you think the binding should be?

perhaps bring in a fabric not in the quilt?? like a plain purple?

HSTs DONE!

Thats right!
I finally finished the HSTs for the first quilt,
I've been cutting every day what I got done the day before as I go, so I dont have that much more trimming

to do, I hope to finish trimming and at least lay it out tonight on the floor so I can start sewing the top.
17 days left

To do:

1. Finish HSTs

2. Cut HSTs apart

3. Trim HSTs

4. Assemble top

5. Baste

6. Quilt

7. Bind

8. Other quilt! EEK!

2 steps done! Making progress!!! 

Beginning December

Well, I remembered that in my last post I forgot to update how much money I had found... so I'm making that my first priority today. Over the past 4 months, I have found .41 cents... some were found at lowes, home depot, Justice and Kohls (a whole quarter at Kohls). That brings my total to $3.09, not exactly the number I was hoping for nearing this close to the end of the year. But its better than nothing :D

Also I remembered I forgot to mention, I checked another item off of my New Years Resolutions. I ran my first 5K, and finished in 31 minutes and 7 seconds.
yey!

So as far as quilting goes.
I have been working when I can, I finished sewing together 1/2 of my HSTs, I also cut them in half and trimmed them.

Then I was busy sewing the other 1/2 , and my sewing machine started acting weird and eating my fabric, I decided it needed a rest, so I have been working on cutting the other half apart and trimming them.

Making progress I guess.

Count down: 20 days.

To do:

1. Finish HSTs

2. Cut HSTs apart

3. Trim HSTs

4. Assemble top

5. Baste

6. Quilt

7. Bind

8. Other quilt! EEK!

The Holidays are upon us

So last update I only had 3 stars done, now I think I have 11.
However that quilt has had to take a backseat.
The rest of October flew by but I finished this sewing machine cover for my mom's birthday

 and now has November!
only 26 days until I need to have both quilts finished.

In the meantime the first week in November my parents visited. We had a great time

Then we spent a week with Josh's family in Pigeon Forge. We also had a great time.

Now I am back to sewing :D And I promise to dedicate all of my free time to quilting until these two quilts are done!

Today I finished cutting out the fabric for quilt #1.

Now I will work on sewing the HSTs. :D

October update

Well its been about a month ago since I updated.
I have been working a lot since my boss was on vacation, and also I finally caught up on Ironing, and some of my mailing items.
still have a couple things to mail out! Sorry Stacey!

I also celebrated my birthday, the last of the 20s and when I was younger we used to go up north for my birthday. So I thought wouldn't it be nice if we went somewhere outdoorsy, We went backpacking in South Mountains state park, we had a great time!

I have also been working on 2 Projects! 

I know I know, Teresa said I would be hooked on working on two at one time, but I'm behind in both I think, I need to get a move on. 

I am for sure behind on my quilt along, most everyone else is done, but I'm finally working on my stars (I may have taken a break after that last quilt because well it was a lot of late nights and a lot of sewing... I needed a break) 

So far I only have 3 sewn together... and a TON more to go

Also I started working on one of the two twin sized quilts I need to have done by Christmas. I have a little over 1/4 of the squares cut out.

Happy September

Well, I'm a little behind on everything this September... but I'm getting back on track.
To all of you who I said I would mail your card/present. I will lol... So many birthdays, anniversaries etc. in September! Including ours! So...
We headed to Virginia Beach.

The Shriners were in Town, and had a parade, this was Josh's Fav

Then We went to a Maritime museum that had the U.S.S. Wisconsin

And of course we got to see the world's largest Chair!

We had to go to Virginia Beach a week early since I had to work on our actual anniversary date. We had planned to cook a nice dinner and see a movie, but instead we did yard work and I joined the quilt along at night :D It was fun!

And Josh Got me this great Sewing table!!!! (I sadly got him a clock... I feel like he won the present giving this year)