Lemon Lime Picnic - Graduation & Thank You Gift

I don't think it is a requirement but I have been lucky that some of our interns in the office have been wonderful people that I have been lucky enough to make as friends. Shannon's last day of law school is this week and I wanted to make her something to thank her for the fun I had this semester and to wish her luck with the bar and life in general. So I made this picnic blanket which I think she will like.

Biding my time Posting

I have so many projects that I have finished recently and have posted a few pictures of them and risk my family and friends accidentally running across their gifts before they receive them. However I am taking calculated risks that my Grandma won't ask my mom in the next two weeks to look at my flickr page and that my friends Ben and Christina won't show their 2 year-old daughter her birthday gift early. But I took time Sunday morning to make pretty photos of my project and the sun cooperated so well and I want to share them. So this blog will host a few and luckily I haven't done much to publicize my blog. But it makes me happy.

Craft Day

Today I had some girlfriends come over to be crafty. My friend Whitney wanted to make a baby quilt. Jenna and Hannah came over to assist/work on their own project/were talked into it by myself. I have to say that I had the best time. I mean I would be crafting today anyway but today I had friends over and was able to host a little lunch as well. My friends worked intently.

Whitney, never having sewn was our ironer/quality control analyst. Jenna saved the day by assisting with the quilt construction which was more interesting than our bag construction. Hannah did good work on her bag and insured her position in my life as the "always a sport and goes along with Laura's tangents even though she thinks I'm odd" friend.

We almost completed the quilt today.Whitney spent a good portion of her day worrying about the quilt, closing her eyes during the binding process and during some of the actual quilting while Jenna and I reassured her over and over again with "fabric stretches, it's fine" and Hannah chiming in with "no one will be able to see the back!" This didn't seem to alleviate her anxiety. We didn't even need to use our tricky strategies because the quilt went together really well. Whitney had a good eye for fabric and was very conscientious with the lay out and the basting so the quilt stitched up quickly.

It was a lot of fun getting to spend time with some great girls. I mean what could be better on a Saturday than friends, coffee, three sewing machines and sunshine?

I made these as little party favors for the girls.

Christmas in April

Today I was working on a Christmas stocking and I was in such a good and pleasant mood. I had the Christmas spirit but on a spring day working on a project without the normal pressures of time that the holiday season usually brings. It was wonderful. I had my moment of crafty Zen.

This year I plan on actually making Mike and I something. Last year I did a lot of Christmas projects and ended up giving them all away except for two little felt snowmen I just couldn't part with. So this year I am going to have a "style" for our Christmas decorating. I am not going to pull out all my decorations willy nilly but am going to think and plan and actually create some projects that go together. I have decided to have a Scandinavian simple sort of theme for our living space. I have decided to use the fabric in the photo as inspiration. I have also decided that the Boyd's Bears still get used, of course!

My sister amongst a few other people have suggested I started an ETSY store. I haven't decided if I will, right now I am making two of things and mulling it over. So I made a second stocking tonight. Which I was happy doing, because I like the stocking and the movie Mike was watching was too scary so Ralph and I sat at the dining room table avoiding the tv.