All pinned up

Well, thank you for your many, many well wishes.  I haven't tried any of the blogger suggestions as I just didn't feel like doing much this week.  Apologies again for not getting back to you...I will get back in the swing soon, just stick with me.  I finally started to feel a bit better yesterday, which was lucky because we took a family trip to the orchard and a hay ride out to pick the best pumpkin ever.

Then I came home and started working on this quilt.  Collection:  Fandango by Kate Spain; Pattern can be found in Heather Mulder Pearson's book Let the Good Times Roll book.  I had the blocks all together, so I added the borders and sewed the back.  I woke up this morning feeling even better.  Today I have been working on pinning this monster and getting caught up on laundry!  But, that is a different monster all together, isn't it?

Anyway, the wedding that this is suppose to be a gift for is the 15th of October....13 days away.  Pressure is on!  Will I finish it on time?  Stay tuned.

Sick

So I have a cold.  On top of not being able to sleep, now blogger isn't letting me comment on a blog I use to comment on.  I have tried signing out and then back in.  Anyone knows what gives?

Sorry about that

Thank you for all of your kind comments about Buddy.  I really do appreciate them.  I also hope you will forgive me for not responding to each of you in turn, as my husband had a serious infection this week and wound up in the hospital.  No worries.  He seems to be responding well to the medication they gave him and I suspect he will be home soon. 

Thanks again for your friendship.  Hopefully I will be back to blogging when life gets back to a sense of normalcy.

It's a soccer thing

Saturday mornings....you can find us on the soccer field.  Early.  Way too early. 

Soccer fever!

Don't you just love this face.  I could smother him in kisses...except we are at the age that it would be "too embarassing" for the world to know his mother loves him that much.  So, I take what I can get.

 Two games down.  5 goals score by #8 here.  He's on fire.  Oh, and the husband thinks that I should share that Buddy is his screen name.  LOL.  He doesn't want you to think we'd actually name him Buddy.  The name came from when he was still in my tummy...I use to call him Lil' Buddy because we couldn't agree on a name. 

Testing, testing...does this thing still work?

Not to worry, I am still here.  School has started, I am back to work, soccer is in midseason...life is crazy.  I had to give myself a major kick this weekend.  You see...we have a family wedding on Oct 15th to attend and I was intending on making a quilt out of my Fandango jelly roll.  Only the thing is, I hadn't even started it before yesterday.  I had nothing cut.  Nothing sewn.  There was a month left.  Ahh, the pressure.
So luckily, yesterday afternoon I got some sewing time in.  Shew! I picked out my pattern:  It's a Bling Thing by Anka's Treasures.  Perfect name for a wedding quilt, right?  I got to cutting and sewing.  I love this pattern so far.  I have all of my blocks together (yesterday) and all of my rows together (this afternoon).  My borders are cut as well. 

Unfortunately I need to go to the grocery store.  So this may be the point I stop.

What are you sewing???

Finally

Finally we got Buddy's basketball hoop up...

after 3 tries and 2 phone calls to the company for 6 missing parts

it is finally up, a month after his birthday/

Another way

I finished my second bag this weekend admist all of this back to school madness and mayhem.  I like this bag.  You can see that this time, instead of using 2.5 inch pieced strips, I just used a focal fabric and I think it is also very cute.  This bag is going to be a present for Buddy's teacher at Christmas.  This pattern is from the Moda Bake Shop book Sweet Treats.  Again, I did use my fancy stitches for the quilting on the pockets.