Wedding Attire

The wedding is in two weeks and one day. We leave for Tahoe in 12 days. Woo Hoo!!!! A vacation! The stress load is getting less each day. The quilt is done, the 6 little girls' dresses are finished and my dress is cut out. When having to alter the pattern to make it fit, the cutting out part is the worst.

So, as I promised, here are pics of the little girls' dresses. I will post a picture of the quilt after the wedding. The design is a surprise and since the bride-to-be visits this blog, I don't want to ruin the surprise. :)

This is the dress for the 4 little girls, two of which are flower girls. The flower girls' dresses have a big bow in the back.

This is the dress for the two babies. Front and back.

Finished projects

I finished and delivered two projects this week. Instead of posting the pictures I took, you can see them by clicking the 'Laura' link under 'people I know' below and to the right. Laura posted pictures of the little girls' quilts on their new bunk beds. See her post titled "Friday's Project".

Two down, 6+ to go! I'm making progress. Bad thing is, I keep adding projects to the project list! I didn't do much quilt making or quilting while I was working the past 4 years. I guess I'm making up for lost fun time!

My Great Find and My Great Buy!

We were in Logan today for treatment. We went on a hunt for a cancer ribbon punch and paper. We went to Carolee Creations. Nothing. We went to the Book Table. Nothing. We went to Michaels and Eugene found the punch! Woo Hoo!!! I also bought a double heart punch. Now I can punch out a ton of different color cancer ribbons to decorate luminaria bags for the relay in June. I also need to decorate 5 change jars. I was supposed to look for them but I forgot so I guess we are going to use quart canning jars that have been covered in paper and decorated. The punch was my great find.

My great buy was fabric for Katie's wedding quilt. A couple of weeks ago I went to the fabric store in town and bought 7 yards of 90" wide fabric for $3.99 per yard. I got it for that because there is a flaw in the printing on the fabric. Not a big deal because the widest pieces I need are about 9". I think I can cut around the flaws. Then, today in Jo Ann's we found the colors of fabric requested and most of it was on sale at 30% off. I am so excited! I had to order in the back because they didn't have enough of the color we picked out. I got all the fabric for a king size quilt, 106 x 106, for around $130!! What a deal! I remember spending about $60 for a baby quilt which is way less than half the size of the king. I actually got a Lizzie deal today! :) Oh Happy Day!

Aunt Kay's quilt top

Aunt Kay brought me 12 embroidered quilt blocks and asked me to make a quilt out of them. She said she wanted to bring out the blue. I went to our local fabric store and visited with a couple of my friends about how to go about designing the quilt. I took their suggestions and went home and built the quilt on my EQ5 software. I think it turned out beautiful. The pieced border wasn't so much fun, but I think it turned out great.

Hobby

I love to make quilts. I used to love to hand quilt them, but it is so hard on my back that it takes forever to get them quilted. I have a friend who owns a quilting machine. She does absolutely fabulous work. This picture is of a quilt I made for Michelle, our daughter-in-law.