Noooooo

I just wrote up a pretty long post, and it got completely dumped when I attempted to submit it. :/ 

Well, guess I'm not going to post about all the work I've been doing this weekend. :( because I spent 45 of my sewing minutes typing it up! And Sunday bedtime is creeping closer. 

Here, you may have pictures instead of words. 

I squared lots of 12" blocks with my new ruler. 

I sewed them to other 12" blocks. 

I took a break to straighten my hair. 

I currently have four completed strips of four 12" blocks pieced together. 

And I have two four-strips left to do tonight. 

Then I need to piece all six strips together tomorrow night. So that the two auction tops can go to my sons school and the auction committee meeting on the 12th. 

Snappy pants!

Does anyone other than me remember snap away sweat pants?

Apparently major retailers everywhere have forgotten the fabulous-ness that is snap away sweat pants. Or they are way overcharging for this luxury, and this is a major bummer for me. Because my seven year old Tony is playing Pee Wee basketball this year! Which is great, except for the fact that it is COLD outside. I have been to no less than six stores and also the great internets looking for tear away pants he can wear as we are in transit to his practices and games because the whole pulling your pants off over your shoes sucks thing is the reason snap away pants were invented in the first place.

Alas, I can only find those stupid things in his team colors on eastbay.com and for an OUTRAGEOUS $35. These are sweatpants, people!!

So, all this to say last night I bought some snaps and a snap tool and in the very near future, I will be chopping up some sweatpants and attempting to make them snappy!

I have a ton of quilt work I want to focus on as my deadline for having both auction quilt tops finished is the 12th, so I can send them in for the classrooms and moms running the auction to see, but hopefully this will be a quick project and not a total disaster. If it does become a total disaster, well, I may just end up out $35 plus shipping and handling...

My first quilt finished!!

I finally finished the quilt for Baby J! 

I'm super excited because I don't even think I did a horrible job or anything even though I had lots of challenges. 

And now I am confident enough with my free motion foot on my machine and with my ability to follow a (simple) pattern free motion that I'm not terrified I got in over my head with the quilts for the auction. 

Here are some pictures. I'm hoping to deliver it sometime this week!

This I snapped while I was quilting it. I went with spider webs inside all the action blocks and sort of swirly zig zag triangle thingies in all the sashing. (Yes technical terms!) I do wish the webs were slightly more visible from the top, but it's okay because in the back they definitely show. 

^^Woopsie! Can't flip this picture mobile and it's just too much to email it to myself on the computer. Perhaps I will remember to go back and edit this post and do it then. 

Adding the binding, I actually just used double fold bias tape instead of making my own quilt binding because it was easier. I don't know if "normal" quilters do that, but they always seem to refer to binding as an entirely different thing. I'm not sure! This worked well for this project though! 

And I decided that instead of dealing with mothered corners, I'd just chop them off! My stitching on the bias tape went slightly crooked around the curves.. I could have fixed it, but it was minor and would've been way more work to rip out those stitches. :/ here's the whole thing! 

And here's the last one zoomed out a bit so you can see how big it is! Our couch is huge. Reclined like that it could fit four adults laying down not squished. ;)

I didn't actually measure it after I washed it. Perhaps I should before I give it up to Baby J. Before adding the binding and washing it was 41 inches by 51 inches. So hopefully J will get MANY years of love out of it!